Official Ballot Statement

	Official Ballot Statement
              Statement of LISABETH A. GIFFORD, Candidate for
                            Member, City Council
   Occupation: Self-Employed Independent Paralegal
   Age: 58
   Education and Qualifications:
   
   Attended Purdue University with a journalism major. Was employed by a
   Gilroy attorney for eighteen years prior to starting an independent
   paralegal home-based business in 1994. Worked for Gavilan College in
   the early 1970's.
   
   A thirty year Gilroy resident, married, mother of four adult children
   and grandmother of two.
   
   I am proud to have campaigned for Supervisor Don Gage, Councilmen Mike
   Gilroy and Tom Springer, and School Trustee Jane Howard, as well as
   being an organizer of citizens against the proposed storm drain tax in
   1995.
   
   Though progress is inevitable, I feel recent growth in Gilroy has been
   over-powering and needs to be curtailed.
   
   I am for filtering pornography on the library's internet to protect
   children and for sex offenders' names being available to the public.
   
   If elected, I would actively pursue an investigation of our police
   department's policies and procedures. I am a proponent of the new golf
   course and the retention of the existing golf course. I endorse new
   businesses using existing facilities. I support revitalizing of our
   downtown section, as well as First Street.
   
   My basic platform is elected officials are employees of the taxpayers
   and should never be accountable to special interest groups.
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