TruthBrigade Radio: Vince Flaherty for CA Senate on TruthBrigade Radio

Monday, March 9, 2009

Vince Flaherty for CA Senate on TruthBrigade Radio

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Vince Flaherty was raised in Southern California. His father was a syndicated columnist and a speech writer for Senator John F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign. It was during that time, that Vince came to view public service as the most rewarding way to be useful to other people. He attended Santa Monica College, U.C.L.A. and Harvard where he specialized in Film and Television and Political Science. During the past 20 years he has simultaneously maintained successful businesses in the motion picture and real estate industry and as such, has become a hands-on expert in business matters and labor relations relating to the entertainment, real estate and construction industries.
He is a past councilmember of the Pacific Palisades Community Council, credited with saving a 16-acre wooded area, known as The Ocean Woods from a tract of 23 homes. He also served the community as a representative of The Castellammare Mesa Homeowners Association. He is a past president and director of the Pacific Palisades Historical Society. In that capacity he assisted in persuading the State of California to abandon plans for a large parking lot and RV park in legendary Los Liones Canyon, and he helped implement a program of planting indigenous trees, and restoration of the riparian stream bed in the canyon. He is known for his community activism and his newspaper articles as an advocate for restoration and preservation of the California coastline.
No stranger to politics and California issues, he worked as an aide to Congressman Charles H. Wilson, and as an assistant in the office of former Governor Pat Brown. He formed the U.C.L.A. Students for Carter. He assisted his friend California State Treasurer Kathleen Brown during her campaign to unseat incumbent governor Pete Wilson in the 1994 gubernatorial election. In recent years, he provided his home for meetings of the Pacific Palisades Republican Club. Since then, he has continued to contribute his efforts to the elections of Republican, Democratic and third party candidates.
He consistently donates his efforts toward helping young people, and whenever he has the chance to speak to school students or have a conversation with them he jumps on it. He has lectured and held question and answer sessions with students in our public schools in his capacity as an authority on California History. He is a long time supporter of the Santa Monica Boys and Girls Club and an Assistant Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 223 in Pacific Palisades. He is also regarded for his efforts with youth athletics, as the coach of youth baseball, soccer and football teams, and was awarded a resolution of the highest commendation from the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles for his outstanding service in representing the people, by guiding the Westside Bruins Youth Football Team to victory at the National Championship Finals. But the vocation he enjoys most is his one as a husband, and father of two sons
Now Vince believes it is time for him to do his part to help change the way our government operates. He believes that our government has truly lost touch with the people, and instead caters to the wishes of special interest groups and lobbyists representing large corporations. He believes that Wall Street and the banking industry have hijacked our American government in Washington D.C. and the majority of our legislators have either ignored the conflicts of interest, or been more directly involved. He seeks to restore our American government, that has shown itself to be a government of the corporation, by the corporation, and for the corporation, into a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.