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East Quogue resident Lorna Salzman will be the NY
Green Party candidate for congress in the 1st CD, eastern Suffolk
County, Long Island, NY. Her priorities will be halting global warming,
universal single-payer health care, tightening oversight of corporations
and re-defining national security.
Salzman, a longtime environmental activist on the East End of LI who has
run for Southampton Town Trustee and for Congress previously, intends to
focus on the major issues that impact all citizens and taxpayers: their
energy and health care bills, environmental protection, and the need to
oversee "marauding corporations that exploit their own employees
and investors" to enrich top executive pockets.
Said Salzman: "Credible scientists urge at least a minimum 50%
reduction in fossil fuel use. This will occur only if we give full speed
ahead to energy conservation, renewable energy, and reduce the use of
oil in our industrial and automotive sectors, with a huge benefit being
the end of dependence on Arab oil".
A quick way to help solve our environmental problems and reduce the
hardship of taxes on citizens is to revert to the income tax structure
that applied in the mid-1950s, she said. This would tax corporations
properly and these taxes could create a fund for public transportation
and low-costs loans for individuals and communities for renewable energy
systems. Salzman also favors a real free market that would end
government subsidies, tax write-offs, bailouts and other giveaways to
corporations, in particular airlines, the energy sector, timber and
agriculture.
Salzman also said that while terrorism is a real threat, the
"war" proposed by President Bush is becoming a war against the
Constitution, not just terrorists. "National security isn't just a
matter of uncovering terrorists; it is also about insuring that our
basic energy, transportation, food, water and public health sectors are
resilient and will continue to operate after an act of terrorism".
What is really needed, she said, is a decentralized energy system that
cannot be entirely destroyed and is easily repaired; a national railway
system that cannot be targeted like airplanes; a strengthened public
health system to contain infectious disease, whether naturally occurring
or a result of bioterrorism.
"National security means energy security, health security, food and
water security and transportation security," said Salzman, adding
that such security will necessarily mean the shutdown of all nuclear
power plants in the country and a universal single payer health care
system funded through the income tax.
Information: 631-653-3387
fax: 413-410-1401
email: lsalzman@rcn.com
Fax #1 413 410 1401
Lorna Salzman
718-522-0253; 631-653-3387 lsalzman@rcn.com
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