November 2007 New Jersey Legislature Election
Assembly Candidate District 10
Liz Arnone (Green Party)
 
Contact Information 
Liz Arnone for Assembly 2007
 
PO Box 4206
 
Brick NJ 08723
PHONE: 732-255-5206 or 732-673-9583
E-MAIL: larnone47@yahoo.com
WEB SITE:
 
Biography (provided by candidate)
Liz Arnone is a Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States (gp.org) and serves on several GPUS committees including the
Presidential Campaign Support Committee, Finance Committee and Fundraising Committee. She is the treasurer of the Green Party of New Jersey and is a 2007 candidate for state assembly, a seat she ran for in 2003. She joined the Green Party in 2000 and worked on Ralph
Nader's 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns.

Arnone worked for 14 years at AT&T where she was employed as a Technical Writer and Metrics Analyst. Prior to that, she worked as an
assistant to a Campus Manager for Historically Black Universities and
Colleges where she did administrative work and participated in recruiting efforts, visiting professor programs, equipment donations and curriculum development.

In addition to the work above, Arnone coordinated and provided leadership in Valuing Diversity activities along with facilitating
diversity training sessions throughout the country for AT&T; participated in numerous employee councils and teams addressing issues of the work environment, i.e., people with disability, women, people of color, and GLBT; and worked for several years as a volunteer at a crises hotline center receiving calls from people in crises and connecting them to resources for help, or just listening.

Arnone is the single parent of three children and grandmother of two. She enjoys sharing her life's experience and the experiences she has gathered as a Green activist with others.
Views on Issues (provided by candidate)
Being a member of the Green Party and the Green Movement is not about power, it's about passion. It's not about making deals
with corporate interests and big money, it's about doing the right thing.

You can't do the right thing in politics when elections can be bought and sold. Corporations won't pay living wages, yet billions are poured into campaigns. I believe this money could be put to better use.

I believe this country is being held hostage by an illegal war on terror which is draining our economy, destroying our infrastructure, and health care, and eliminating much need programs for the needy.

1. Corporations are not people. We must tame the giant corporations.
Corporations are legal entities, not human beings, as such they should be prohibited from contributing to campaigns, sponsoring PACS, or lobbying. Given how they concentrate power and wealth, you can never
have equal justice under the law in this country between you, me and General Motors .... I would transform corporate law.

2. Besides implementing a progressive tax, where those who earn more, pay more, I would also, push for a tax system that would tax, first, things
we don't like — such as pollution, speculation, gambling, addiction products — before we tax work.

Why are we taxing things we like to do, instead of the things that aren't good for us? So, a tax on stock transactions would slow down speculation, but it would raise enormous amounts of money, simply because of the billions of dollars that turn over every week; a penny tax
on each stock or bond sold would raise a huge amount of money. A tax on pollution would change the equation, so the polluter would start saying, 'Hey, it costs more to pollute than it costs not to pollute'.

3. I would work toward strengthening the facilities of our democracy. That
would mean repealing Taft-Hartley (a 1947 law that severely limits labor unions) and passing laws that would facilitate the emancipation of tens of millions for workers. That would mean creating facilities that would make it easy for consumers to band together in dealing with banks,
insurance companies, brokerage houses, landlords, electric and telephone utilities ... all the things now where they are powerless, totally powerless, because the facilities are not there. This can begin locally and move up.

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4. We must change our energy culture: by promoting and supporting advocacy actions, to reduce the perceived "need" for nuclear power, and expose its true costs. By closing down existing nuclear plants and transition to others sources of energy regeneration. By supporting
local grassroots efforts to develop alternative energies. By supporting state legislative efforts to develop Renewable Portfolio Standards.

5. If elected, I would work toward instituting Initiative and Referendum. I&R is a process that allows citizens of states to vote directly on proposed legislation. It has been written into the state constitutions of several U.S. states, and I would seek to do this in New Jersey.

I am fed up with business as usual in a two party system that is failing us.
Until we level the playing field by allowing more voices and more choices we will have more of the same, the rich will get richer and the poor poorer.