Jason for MBUSD

Hey Everyone! This week is a little different. This will be our last episode before Election Day, and we’ve turned the tables. I’ve invited the former Executive Editor of the Beach Reporter Paul Silva to interview me! As Paul states in the interview, he is a supporter of mine, and he’s not appearing in the capacity of an unbiased journalist. I did not have knowledge of the questions he asked me ahead of time, however, and he asked me some real good ones! I hope you enjoy it. You can read Paul’s expansive body of work with the Beach Reporter at tbrnews.com. Type Paul Silva into the search bar and you’ll come across a wealth of his columns, which most of you probably don’t need me to tell you are immensely insightful and inspiring. He has halfway come out of retirement as of late and published a few recent columns - the latest is entitled On the ballot, as in life, character should count. Give it a read when you have a moment. As of the air date of this episode, you have only six days left to vote! You can access all the info you need about where and how to vote in Manhattan Beach by visiting tinyurl.com/votingMB. Get out there and vote! It is not too late to get in touch with our campaign if you have any suggestions, concerns, or ideas. You can reach me directly at jasonformbusd@gmail.com, as well as on facebook, twitter, and instagram at that same handle - jasonformbusd. If you’d like to help with our final volunteer push - we’ll be distributing some literature around town in the next few days - you can sign up for that on the “Get Involved” page of the website, jasonformbusd.com. And if you’d like to spread the word about the campaign, feel free to share this podcast with anyone you think might be interested!

This week’s episode is a little different. Over the course of the campaign I’ve had the immense pleasure of getting to know my hometown in a way I never thought possible. I’ve had deep conversations about our community with a wider variety of Manhattan Beach residents than I ever have before in my 20+ years of living here. Some - and admittedly not all - of these people have determined that I’m up for the job of sitting on our School Board. On today’s episode, we’re going to hear from these people directly. I simply the asked the question - why will you be voting for Jason?

This week, I talk with Stephan Oliveira, a 2020 Mira Costa High School graduate who participated in a variety of extracurriculars throughout his academic career. He is pursuing a path in psychology, specifically psychiatry, and intends to bring the lessons he's learned from being an LGBT+ advocate as GSA president at Mira Costa and a PFLAG member in the South Bay to assist future patients. As he paves his way forward, he hopes to leave a positive impact wherever he can. We have one more debate scheduled after this episode will air, and it’s tomorrow! October 15th, hosted by the Easy Reader, HermosaOne.com, and NuVoodoo Media Services. It will be held at 7pm and you can register at debate2020.easyreadernews.com/ [http://debate2020.easyreadernews.com/ ] For some of the resources Stephan and I made mention to: you can find PFLAG Manhattan Beach at pflagmanhattanbeach.org/ [http://pflagmanhattanbeach.org/] The South Bay LGBT Center at southbaycenter.wixsite.com/southbaylgbtcenter [http://southbaycenter.wixsite.com/southbaylgbtcenter] And The Center for Transyouth Health and Development (which is part of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles), at chla.org/the-center-transyouth-health-and-development [http://chla.org/the-center-transyouth-health-and-development] And finally, both Stephan and I are happy to be resources for family and youth in the South Bay looking for help with LGBT+ issues. You can email the campaign at jasonformbusd@gmail.com with any related questions there. The mutual aid organizations I mentioned are Long Beach Community Table, which is just longbeachcommunitytable.com/ [http://longbeachcommunitytable.com/] All Together LA (which is run by another MBUSD alumna - Priya Chatwani, and they’re at AllTogether.LA [http://AllTogether.LA] And South Bay Community Volunteers is a Facebook group run by Jessica Accamando in Hermosa Beach - just search South Bay Community Volunteers in Facebook when you log in! For info about food drop offs on MBUSD campuses, you can visit mbusd.org/apps/pages/food [http://mbusd.org/apps/pages/food] Follow our campaign on instagram, facebook, and twitter at the handle @jasonformbusd Check out our website which is just jasonformbusd.com [http://jasonformbusd.com]

Hey everyone - a special, out of the ordinary episode for you this week. For any who didn’t get to tune in last week, the League of Women Voters Beach Cities hosted the very first candidate forum in our School Board race. It was moderated by Diane Wallace, Secretary of the Beach Cities Chapter, and I participated in it alongside the three other candidates. We’ll be sharing the audio from that event here with you, and we encourage you to share it around! To find out more info about the League you can visit my.lwv.org/california/beach-cities.

Hey all! This week I address the concerns surrounding Prop 15, and why I have decided to support it. I talk to Linda Herman, a representative of The League of Women Voters who has studied Prop 15 extensively. To read up about the advocacy work of the League of Women Voters, check out lwv.org. It’s school board debate season!  The League of Women Voters will be hosting the first of our forums on October 1st at 7pm. The debate is via zoom, and you can register by emailing dmbarkwall@gmail.com and putting MBUSD in the subject line. As always, the digital door of our campaign is always open. If you have questions, ideas, concerns, you can reach us at jasonformbusd@gmail.com, as well as on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at that same handle - jasonformbusd. If you’re a supporter of the campaign and you haven’t signed up for a yard sign, please do that on the main page of our website! Jasonformbusd.com - yard signs really do make a big difference - it’s the most concrete thing you can do right now to help us win in November. That’s all I got for today - thank you so much for tuning in and I’ll see ya next week!