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City Council 2010: Realtor/community volunteer runs for District 3 seat
by Kathleen Haley, published on March 26, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Storyline: Sacramento City Hall / Politics
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City Council candidate Chris Little said his top goal as a council member would be to ensure that city business is transparent to the public.
The Sacramento Press is interviewing City Council candidates in advance of the June 8 election.
Little, 48, works as a Realtor in East Sacramento and is running for the District 3 seat held by Councilman Steve Cohn. The district includes neighborhoods in downtown, Midtown and East Sacramento.
Little, who is a third-generation Sacramentan, earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon.
He is president of the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the American River Parkway Advisory Committee, which advises the county.
If elected, Little said one of his priorities will be fire and police services.
“We need to have levels of service that ... make people feel safe,” he said, “so they know when they call 911 they’re going to get a quick response.”
Little said the city also needs to consider how growth will affect public safety services, adding that new challenges in that arena will come with higher density and high-rise development.
Little said he wants Sacramento to become a sought-after location for medical education and training, and research and technology.
He praised the nursing programs at California State University, Sacramento, and local community colleges and pointed out that the University of California at Davis has an “excellent” medical school.
“As a Sacramento region, we can become, in effect, sort of a Silicon Valley of medicine,” he said. “And I’d like to see us push that as an economic engine."
On a different topic, Little said he wants to work with leaders in education to bring a high school to District 3.
“I think (District 3 neighbors) have a legitimate concern about ... where to send their children to school,” he said.
Of his race against an incumbent, Little said he would offer a “fresh perspective."
Little said he does not want to be a longtime City Council member, adding that he favors term limits. Incumbent Cohn is running for a fifth term.
Little's campaign has raised $19,710. Cohn has raised $78,372, the most money in the District 3 race. Building contractor Shawn Eldredge has raised $11,363 and Jeff Rainforth, an employee of Best Buy, has not raised any money.
Read about Eldredge here. An article about District 1 candidate Angelique Ashby can be found here. Information about District 1 candidate Efren Guttierrez' campaign is here.
Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.
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police and fire - yadda yadda yadda - save the children - yadda yadda yadda
why cant this city feild candidates that are refreshing and have broader visions other than to pimp development to line their pockets.
(Hi Susie!)
AND BTW SAC HIGH IS A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL - what you meant to say was return it to UNION control.
Charter Schools are not Public Schools.
Sacramento Charter High School is not Sacramento High School.
The current "Sac High" is not a "public high school," it is a public charter school.
The real Sac High was closed illegally a year early and given to Kevin Johnson.
Sacramentans sued the Sacramento City Unified School District.
SCUSD has still not -- after 7 years -- provided the court-ordered high school, for half of Sacramento's central neighborhoods.
St. HOPE is underperforming and cannot validate its presence SQUATTING on the Sacramento High School campus that is owned by the public and the central city neighborhoods.
The campus is underutilized; The field, swimming pool and auditorium (the last two abandoned by Johnson and allowed to deteriorate in disuse) are meant to serve the community and a comprehensive public student body.
The facility should be given back to the community that paid for it; including the State Bonds that were voted for $27 M in renovations, just before Johnson's SCUSD cronies (voted out for corruption, although one is running for City Council now) gave him the campus.
You mean they are not public schools ran by corrupt unions.
"close illegally" LOL LOL LOL yeah, by the State of California - what a laugh.
Perhaps if you did some actual research on this, you may learn a thing or two and then I bet you'd feel rather foolish; but then again, probably not. I get the impression you don't try to learn or reflect.
I have an excellent reference for you with regard to the charterization of public education in general, and St. Hope, specifically.....
Diane Ravitch's THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN SCHOOLS is a BOMBSHELL critique of the charterization movement by a former conservative now progressive education guru whose CSPAN interview was broadcast recently, and whose book has become a bestselling guide to dumping the charter schools in favor of dealing with broader issues like poverty,etc., and MAKING PUBLIC SCHOOLS PUBLIC ONCE MORE.... I have it on order, and if you get a chance to see her CSPAN interview, it's a devastating indictment of organizations like ST HOPE that have attempted to gut public ed in favor of privatization...
ANYONE interested in this topic MUST read this very important work!!!!
Both Cohn and Eldredge have been visible. Cohn you can vote on his record--like him or like it or not. Eldredge--you can vote on his business and neighborhood record--like him or like that record or not. But vote for an invisible man with "connections" who suddenly materializes and runs for council? "Connections" with whom and for what reason? That is seriously worrisome. Our mayor had/has connections too. Has that been good or bad? Opinions vary widely on that.
Frankly, we don't know anything about this candidate. What does he plan to do for the voters to get to know him and where he stands on so many important issues--other than the safe PD and fire? Time is short--the primary is just around the corner.
I see a lot of Chris LIttle signs around the neighborhood which shows his immediate neighborhood appreciates and knows him. He's been knocking on doors, etc. My neighbor hosted Chris at her house and I came to learn about him. Perhaps you can visit him during his office hours and find out how he plans to reach out to the other communities in district 3.
When asked why he was running, he put it simply. He said that Steve Cohn has done a lot of good for our district, but it was time for someone else to step in. He said no one has contested Steve in a long time so he thought maybe he should.
I'm glad somebody is doing it. It's time...
Good luck!