GPCA Coordinating Committee Candidate Bio (One-Year Term)

Dave Heller, Alameda


I would like to join the California Green Party State Coordinating Committee for a one
year term.

I joined the Green Party when I moved to California in 1992 and have been a member ever
since.  I became active within the Party in 2000 during the Ralph Nader run for President
and Media Benjamin's run for the US Senate.  I worked on both those campaigns from the
San Francisco Greens office.

I ran for Congress in California's 9th Congressional District (most of Alameda County,
East Bay, against Barbara Lee) in 2008 as a write-in and 2010 on the ballot as a Green.
I've personally registered hundreds of Greens since 2000.

I was the Campaign Coordinator for Measure I in Berkeley in 2004, which finally brought
Instant Runoff Voting to this city last year for the first time.  I also worked on the SF
campaign and the Alaska campaign for IRV.

I have been deeply involved with the struggle for democracy at KPFA-FM community radio
station in Berkeley.  It is the mother station of the Pacifica Network and has been under
siege from a group of Democrats who seem to have a nefarious plan to bankrupt the station
in order to turn it into a commercial station and cash in on its worth on the commercial
section of the radio bandwidth.  This is a very important struggle not just for the
Greens, but small "d" democracy as the station is supposed to be a venue for voices that
normally do not make it to the public's ears.  3rd party politics has only gotten token
spots under their management, which has recently been removed, though many of the staff
remain.

I have also been active in the 9/11 Truth Movement.  The truth of the events of September
11th, 2001 do not match the official story.  The physics of what happened does not match
the governments explanation.  Physics does not lie.  The benefits of a real investigation
into 9/11 will have seismic political consequences on the side of democracy, transparency
and accountability and hopefully global awareness.

I believe the Democrats are failing so badly to meet the needs of their constituents that
we have a huge opportunity to make headway in building the Green Party.  And while the
new open primary was probably designed by the duopoly parties to destroy all third
parties, it does give us a back door advantage that people do not need to register as a
Democrat to vote for the "lesser of two evils" candidate.  So now hopefully, when we
register someone Green, they will stay Green.