Rodney Glassman

Rodney Glassman

Glassman, Rodney (Democrat)

Phone: (888) 997-4429
Email: info@rodneyglassman.com
Website: www.rodneyglassman.com
4656 E. Avendia Rio Bruza, Tucson, AZ 85712
 
Age: n/a. (Fresno, CA).

Arizona since: 1997.

Occupation: Financial adviser, Wells Fargo Advisors, since 2008; consultant to KB Home Tucson Division President John Bremond, 2004-07; show host, “Consider This” on Tucson Channel 12 Television, 2006-07; legislative aide for business and agriculture, Office of Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, CD7, 2003-06; general manager, Gateway Ice Center, 1997-04.

Marital: Married (Sasha).

Religious preference: Jewish.

Education: J.D., UofA, 2007; Ph.D., arid land resource sciences, UofA, 2005; Master’s degree, public administration, UofA, 2002; Master’s degree, business administration, UofA, 2001; B.S., agricultural economics, UofA, 1999.

Political experience: Vice-mayor of Tucson.

Memberships have included: Founder/president, Glassman Foundation; president; Human Development Policy Development and Steering Committee, National League of Cities; District Blue Ribbon Committee; precinct committeeman, Pima County Democratic Party; AZ 4-H Youth Foundation; executive board, Pima Council on Aging; executive board, AZ Foundation for Legal Services and Education; executive board, Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona; executive board, Desert Caucus P.A.C.; executive board, UofA School of Music Advisory Board; member, Davis-Monthan 50; executive board, Boy Scouts of America Catalina Council; honorary board, Opening Mind Through the Arts, TUSD; AZ Dept of Real Estate, licensed agent; State Bar of AZ; advisory board, Bank of Tucson; High Holy Day Choir Member Temple Anshei Israel (Tucson); Eagle Scout.

Interests: Singing, playing ice hockey, raising funds for children’s charities, spending time with my family.

Issues:

Political influence: Congressman Raúl Grijalva. While we don’t agree on every issue, we agree that Arizona needs a U.S. senator that puts Arizona first.

Top priority: I will focus my energy on finding every possible way to spur job growth. Now is the time to expand programs that provide incentives to employers to make new hires. Now is the time to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure — highways, bridges, water systems. Now is the time to educate our children and train our work force to compete so that we can maintain long-term economic growth in Arizona. We also need to end corporate tax loopholes that reward companies that send jobs to other countries.

Respected opponent: Republican Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup has been elected for three terms and demonstrates that it is not the party, but rather the person and the policy that are most important.

Wall Street bailout: Our government has no business doling out hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate welfare. John McCain and JD Hayworth paved the way for this financial crisis by eliminating common-sense regulation on Wall Street, and McCain led the Republican effort to pass the TARP bailouts. McCain even suspended his presidential campaign to vote for TARP. Now, he and Hayworth are swearing up and down that they don’t want bailouts, but they refuse to support the common-sense regulations that would prevent these types of catastrophes in the future. We need to protect our economy and our taxpayers from reckless behavior on Wall Street by immediately passing meaningful financial reform.

Stimulus Act: The stimulus hasn’t done everything we hoped it would, but it certainly has helped. Nearly every American received a tax break last year. In Arizona, the stimulus has brought in about $1 billion and saved or created more than 10,000 jobs. Nationally, nearly every economic indicator is looking like we’re on the road to economic recovery. Unemployment is still painfully high, and we’re not out of the woods yet. But it is absolutely clear that our economy is in better shape now than it was a year ago.

Health care overhaul: The fight for quality, affordable health care has never been more important to the future of more families and businesses than it is today. The health care crisis is as bad today as it was yesterday or the day before. It’s not going to go away, and things will continue to get worse if something isn’t done. The president remains committed to comprehensive health reform, so we’re going to keep working on it — because too many families trying to survive this tough economy are left to make impossible choices between buying food or going to the doctor; because those of us lucky enough to have health care today know we might lose it tomorrow; because we know that by standing together we can win.