Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I’ve served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
You don’t have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I’m a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I’m being taken seriously. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
I’ve run for office, and I’ve stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn’t want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you’re not doing well, you pay less. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
Running for office is important, and you don’t really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don’t need a certain background. You don’t need to be a lawyer. You don’t need to have some professional degree. Matt Gonzalez Read Quote
At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, ‘Are we simply going to standby while somebody’s rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?’ Are we going to stand up for that? Matt Gonzalez Read Quote