Candidate for
Member, City Council; City of Santa Monica

Who is Pro?

I was born 46 years ago in the City of the Angels.

I've lived in four different neighborhoods of Santa Monica for the past 26 years.

At two years old I became passionately involved in helping persons with disabilities by becoming a secondary care taker for my blind grandmother.

At five years of age, I first earned my famous reputation and nick name as squeaky wheel when I hurled a rock at Mayor Sam Yorty car and compelled him to get out of his car and help me lift my dying mother off the cold broken concrete sidewalk next to City hall and place her back into her wheelchair from which she fell out of. I then advocate Mayor Sam Yorty to become better educated on the policy by the City of Hope to not help person like my mother with receiving medical care and receiving hope all because of her medical diagnosis that she was dying of Cancer. The Mayor thank me for humbling him with my actions and by educating him that the City of Hope failure to give hope to families that need the most hope.

On the early morning hours of July 1976, I rescued more than one hundred sleeping Santa Monica residents from a fire just south of Cloverfield and Ocean Park Blvd. This rescue was at the cost of my becoming temporary blinded and deaf when I was injured while during a explosion. To this very day I still bear the scars of my heroic actions.

Occupation: Since 1990 I have paid taxes as an Advocate and have proven leadership as a Civil Rights leader.

Education:120 unit of College at Rio Hondo Police Academy and Santa Monica College

Completed Vocational Certification in POST Advance Officer Training FBI, Hostage Negotiations, Criminal Investigations, Advance Criminal Investigations PC 832, Crisis Intervention, Chase Procedures, Commercial Enforcement,Administration Of Justice, S.W.A.T.,ETC.

1999-2001 Elected to Board of Directors Of Wilshire Montana Neighborhood Group

President of the Association Of Disabilities Commissions of which the Santa Monica Disabilities Commission that I Chaired & founded is a member.

1998 Founder and Chair of the Santa Monica Disabilities Commission and

Appointed to the Santa Monica Disabilities Task Force 2000-2001

June 2001 my dream for the City Council meeting to be closed captioned in English and Spanish was 50% sucessesful when the City gave in to captioning in English only.

October 13, 2002 I won a major victory by forcing the City of Santa Monica to relocate City TV taping moved from the Powerhouse to Ken Edwards Center on a Sunday.People with disabilities need the right to get in past the front door and not wait outside in the cold and rain just because they are in a wheelchair.

Oct. 12 - Due to accessibility concerns, tomorrow's taping of the Santa Monica Ballot Measure Programs has been changed from the Powerhouse Theater to the Ken Edwards Center, 1527 Fourth Street. (The Powerhouse did not have an entrance wide enough to allow wheelchairs access.)

The five sessions will feature debates on seven of the more controversial measures that will appear on local ballots this November. Moderated by the Center for Governmental Studies, these will be taped for later broadcast on CityTV. The public is invited to attend as part of the studio audience.

My next Victory will be to force the City to provide close captioning on all City TV programs that provide information on Santa Monica Ballot Measures and on all Candidates.People with Disabilites that are deaf or hearing inpaired deserve the same rights to be informed.