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Linda Macias
Macias, Linda (Green)
Phone: (480) 201-3991
Email: lindajmacias@aol.com
1344 W. Kiva Ave., Mesa, AZ 85202
Age: 62 (7/23/47, Cleveland, OH).
Arizona since: 1971.
Occupation: Golf starter, City of Mesa; mailman, U.S. Postal Service, 1970-07 (took a 10 year break in service staying home to co-parent our children).
Marital: Married (Tony, real estate agent).
Children: 2.
Education: Attended San Jose State College, physical education with a dance emphasis, 1968-69; A.A., San Jose City College, 1965-68.
Political experience: Worked on campaigns for: Celeste Castorena, Green Party candidate for State Representative, LD12, 2008; Rebecca DeWitt, Green Party Candidate for U.S. Representative, CD4, 2008; William Crum, Green Party candidate for U.S. Representative, CD2, 2008; Prop. 404, BetterBallotGlendale, 2008; Prop. 200, Nuclear Safeguards Initiative, 1976.
Memberships have included: FairVoteAZ since 2007; National Association of Letter Carriers – Merged Branch 1902, Mesa, AZ, current member; Hands on Greater Phoenix, current member; Girl Scouts of America, 1982-84.
Interests: Singing in a community chorus and quartet, camping, hiking, golfing and personal journey classes/reading.
Issues:
Political influence: Angel Torres.
Budget recommendations: I would tax items that may be considered luxury items, such as boats, RV’s, and vehicles over a certain dollar amount. I would check to see that corporations are paying their employees a living wage and being taxed so that they contribute more to the state than they may be paying now.
Other concerns: Funding education and health care.
Fiscal philosophy: We need taxes to have schools, health care, public transit, fire and police protection and public works services. We could have a very small tax on stocks transactions. This may have to take place at the federal level.
Background & experience: Co-parenting two children has prepared me to look at the needs of children. We need to put their interests as one of our key issues.
Proposition 100 sales tax: I voted for the sales tax increase even though I feel that the state could have found other places to find revenue and chose to ask the working people to pay for the services that the increase will help sustain. Wealthy voters and corporations may have been the better place to look for revenue.
Pro-life/pro-choice: An abortion decision needs to be between a woman and her physician. The government could help curtail abortion by making sex education and contraceptive materials available to the child-bearing population.
One last thing: It is time for people to be represented in government. Corporations have become the benefactors of legislation while the voters have been left behind. Elections need to be free of corporate donations.
Campaign Finance: public.