Steve Scalmanini for Charter Commissioner
Stephen Scalmanini is a retired engineer who has lived in Ukiah since 1999 after a career as an engineer in the high-technology industry in the south Bay Area. He was active in several initiative campaigns in Mendocino County, including Measure H in 2004 (which banned propagation of genetically modified organisms in the County), Measure A in 2009 (which defeated the corporation-funded initiative to rezone the Masonite plant site to be a retail shopping center), Measure F in 2012 (which instructed all representatives of Mendocino County to enact resolutions calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that states that only human beings have constitutional rights and money does not constitute speech), and Measure S in 2014 (which adopted a Community Bill of Rights for the County, placing residents' rights above the rights of corporations.) He is a founding member of the Ukiah Valley Smart Growth Coalition (in 2005), was appointed to the Ukiah City Council in late 2013 to replace Councilmember Mari Rodin. Steve is currently the Mayor of Ukiah (for 2016.)
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the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and the next morning found myself in Caspar. Work soon followed and over the years I have dug water wells, worked as a carpenter, made fish humus in Baxman's yard, done marine surveys, taught navigation at College of the Redwoods, been a substitute K-12 teacher for a number of districts, served four terms on the Board of Supervisors, been chair of the Board of Directors of the Mendocino Art Center, Mental Health Advisory Board, CASA and produced The ACCESS Program on KMFB and KZYX from 1980 to 2012. 
spells as a staffer for Congressman Wendell Wyatt (1968-72) and Peace Corps volunteer (1973-75), he founded his own publishing house, Ridge Times Press, in 1981. Amongst many other activities, for eleven years he has been the principle editor of Justice Rising: Grassroots Solutions to Corporate Rule published by the Alliance for Democracy. He co-hosted the KZYX program Corporations and Democracy for 10 + years. He is the author of several books including "I Came Not Alone" (1994) and "Imperial Overstretch: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire (2004)." Jim currently teaches a class around Mendocino County called Grassroots Solutions and Corporate Power along with Margaret Koster, Carrie Durkee and Michael St. John. 
Keith Wyner is a retired special education teacher and a long time resident of Fort Bragg. He has been active in Mendocino County politics with Measure H, banning GMO agriculture and with Measure S, banning fracking in Mendocino County. He supports the Mendocino County Charter, Measure W, and all the things it can potentially do, as a way to help protect our county, our families, and our future.
