Mike Barkley

Mike Barkley was born in Oakland, California. Barkley graduated from Del Valle High School in 1963. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1964 to 1967.[1]

Barkley earned a J.D. from Armstrong College Law School in 1980. Barkley's career experience includes working as an accounting manager at Sierra Pacific Insurance, a programmer-analyst at Insurnet and Pacific Bell, author, attorney, and business owner. He has been affiliated with the American Bar Association.[1][2]

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

lawyer, inactive CPA, computer programmer, small business owner, rancher, activist in environmental issues, flooding, drought, water rights, land use

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Recover the RepublicSolve flooding threatsSolve housing

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Restore/rebuild our Republic

Strengthen wildfire and casualty insurance protections

Strengthen women's rights and Right to Choose

Restore voting rights

Strengthen labor

Reverse global warming

Reverse the Billionaire Tax Cut, Trump's BB Bill, and balance the budget

Add Medicare for All

Protect repressed communities, Restore DEI

Repair what Congress did to cause homelessness and soaring rents (Tax Reform Act of 1986, Faircloth Amendment of 1998 and housing subsidy cuts, 2008 limits on low-income housing loans including by Dodd-Frank)

solve affordability and food deficits

Add 43,000,000 acre-feet of water storage, solve California floods and Western U.S. droughts, mjbarkl.com/floods.txt and floods.htm

reduce New Melones risk

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Barack Obama, intelligence & integrity

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

open & honest

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

solve problems

What legacy would you like to leave?

mjbarkl.com/repeal.htm

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Assasination of John F. Kennedy, 18

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

newspaper delivery as a kid, 4 years

What is your favorite book? Why?

Dune, it just is

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Superman

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

losing 2 wives to cancer

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

close to the electorate

Do you believe that it's beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

yes

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Recover the Republic

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

yes

What are your thoughts on term limits?

counterproductive

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Jasmine Crockett

Both sitting representatives and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?

yes

Do you believe that compromise is necessary or desirable for policymaking?

Sometimes

The Constitution says that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House. What role would this power play in your priorities if elected?

background in tax

How should the U.S. House use its investigative powers?

intensely

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

California Democratic Party, last 4 elections

Candidates hear many personal stories from voters. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching or memorable?

struggles with workers' compensation

What is an accomplishment that you are proud of?

received 140,919 votes 11/2024

What role should the United States government have in the development or use of artificial intelligence?

keep it from displacing human congrol

What legislation would you enact related to election administration in the United States?

John Lewis voting rights act

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Campaign website

Barkley’s campaign website stated the following:

PLATFORM:

Philosophy: identify problems, listen to people, devise legislative solutions.

Legislative:

Summary/high points:

Strengthen Federal wildfire suppression; develop Federal post-disaster homeowners insurance support.

Advocate the formation of a Congressional Natural Disaster and Casualty Insurance Caucus: Wildfires, Earthquakes, Floods, Hurricanes, Tornados

Adopt Medicare for All

Adopt the Labor Bill of Rights

Bring jobs back from overseas

Humanize personal income

Solve housing

Upgrade infrastructure

Fund Greyhound

Solve climate change

Nationalize the right to vote and protect the voting system

Replace impeachment

Fix California's flooding risk and water shortages

Enlarge the New Melones spillway to handle Great Flood flows

Adopt U.S. balanced budget

Halt the confiscation of taxpayer trust fund deposits

Humanize immigration

Fund education

Black Lives Matter

Repeal the right to keep and bear arms[8]

—Mike Barkley’s campaign website (2024)[9]

Mike Barkley did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Barkley's campaign website stated the following:

Summary/high points:

Strengthen Federal wildfire suppression; develop Federal post-disaster homeowners insurance support.

Advocate the formation of a Congressional Natural Disaster and Casualty Insurance Caucus: Wildfires, Earthquakes, Floods, ::Hurricanes, Tornados

Adopt Medicare for All

Adopt the Labor Bill of Rights

Bring jobs back from overseas

Humanize personal income

Solve housing

Upgrade infrastructure

Fund Greyhound

Solve climate change

Nationalize the right to vote and protect the voting system

Replace impeachment

Fix California's flooding risk and water shortages

Enlarge the New Melones spillway to handle Great Flood flows

Adopt U.S. balanced budget

Halt the confiscation of taxpayer trust fund deposits

Humanize immigration

Fund education

Black Lives Matter

Repeal the right to keep and bear arms[8]

—Mike Barkley's campaign website (2022)[10]

Mike Barkley did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Click here to view Barkley's full platform, which is outlined below:

PLATFORM:

Philosophy: identify problems, listen to people, devise legislative solutions.

Legislative:

RESTORE MANUFACTURING IN THE U.S.

Adopt LABOR UNION BILL OF RIGHTS for all unions, including government employee unions, nationwide

More Labor

& Social Security

Infrastructure

Extend unemployment benefits for the 99-ers if still relevant; impose means-testing for unemployment benefits / extablish a substantial tax credit for hiring ex convicts and those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits

Support lump-sum relocation subsidies for the unemployed

Support Senator Warren, et al. S. 1837 (113th): Equal Employment for All Act of 2013 to prevent employers from looking at credit reports when hiring, and especially from considering foreclosures,

Provide that where any agency of Federal, State, or Local government has laid off any employee, that employee shall be granted right of first refusal for any open position with the agency for which that employee may be trained at any time within the next 10 years which right shall continue until that employee is actually rehired, with the longest laid off having the highest priority.

Extend the 72-hour no-hire after layoffs to 30 days

Solve the racial bias in government layoffs and retroactively compensate for it

Extend the New York Domestic Workers protections nationwide

Arrange for regular job fairs at King-Kennedy Center, West Modesto

Voter rights

Freedom of Association rights in elections (Freedom of Association is an "implied" right in the U.S. Constitution)

Enhance and extend to the states the Federal Open Meeting Laws, including for "Associations" that are constituted predominantly of legislators from other agencies or their staffs

Immigration

More Education

Health

Transportation & Transportation Safety

Energy

Consumer Financial Protection

Tax

Adopt the ONLY BALANCED U.S. BUDGET which BALANCES this year and funds MEDICARE FOR EVERYONE

War

Guns

Water

Law & Justice

Government and Diplomacy

Adopt nationwide minimum standards for high-rise buildings: integrated firefighting apparatus, tougher standards on using trusses in floors and ceilings, hardened fire stair wells, fire stair wells sized proportionate to anticipated structure population, all fire stair wells descending all the way to the street level, at least two fire stair wells placed at the outside edge of the structure at opposite corners of the structure, independent emergency fire stair lighting, all these to reduce design deficiencies that multiplied the casualties from the attacks on the twin towers on 09/11/2001

More Environment & disaster preparedness

Strengthen NPR, PBS & arts funding

Support our troops

Constitutional:

Amend: Every person within the geographic borders of the United States and its territories is entitled to government-funded health care.

Shut down the gun madness, make guns a privilege, not a right: Repeal the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, impose a graduated tax on ownership and possession with penalties for misuse , see draft Amendment Resolution and Legislation

Recognize the right of women to terminate pregnancies at will and to receive funding for it as for any other medical procedure, Amend: "A woman's right to terminate her pregnancy shall not be infringed."

Recognize in all jurisdictions the validity of same sex marriage, Amend: "Any marriage between two people in any jurisdiction is valid for all purposes in every jurisdiction."

Advocate approval of the Equal Rights Amendment, only this time with a 100-year time limit for adoption / Support 112th Congress H.J. Res 47

Adopt, Campaign funding, Amend:

"1. Congress may regulate political campaign funding as it chooses.

"2. Corporations are not persons; Money is not speech."

( Support 2013-14 HJR 20 21 & 29 [2018: can't find these?] , Congress to regulate campaign money, and corporations are not people. )

Adopt "full incorporation" of rights: "Within the Fourteenth Amendment Section 1., after the words 'privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States' add the phrase 'including any and all of their rights enumerated or implied in this Constitution'"

Amend: "Except as provided elsewhere in this Constitution, all issues in either body of Congress shall be resolved by simple majority vote of eligible voters in that body"

Adopt,Voting, Amend:

"1. Every citizen shall have the right to vote in all jurisdictions that include the citizen's declared principal residence.

"2. Exercise of that right to vote shall be under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."

( Support the 2013 Pocan/Ellison Right to Vote Amendment, H.J. Res. 25 [can't find this one either?] )

or,

"The right to vote of citizens over the age of 18 shall not be infringed."

Recognizing the failure of impeachment as a remedy, adopt the Hiram Johnson cure for corruption. Amendment:

1) The people shall have the power of initiative, referendum, and recall.

2) This power shall be implemented under such regulation as the Congress shall prescribe, which regulation itself shall be subject to initiative or referendum.

Provide lifetime voting membership in the House of Representatives for all past Presidents

Provide that a Bill to modify any Treaty may be initiated in the same manner as a Revenue Bill.

Grant full electoral franchise to DC through statehood or restoration to Maryland[8]

—Mike Barkley's campaign website (2020)[11]

The following issues were listed on Barkley's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

Restore Manufacturing in the U.S.: Reexamine NAFTA and the other free trade agreements that have shipped millions of jobs out of this country; reexamine other international job thieves such as Globalization, Outsourcing, Deregulation, Foreign currency manipulation, Foreign below cost selling, Foreign labor compensation and public protection differences, Adverse tariff imbalances, GATT & WTO concessions, Most-favored nation concessions, and so on and bring every one of these jobs back home; Consider supporting The Trade, Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act of 2009?, 110th & 111th Congress, H.R. 3012

Social Security: Increase the amount retirees can earn without adversely impacting their Social Security

Voter rights: Provide that the sole criteria for voter registration and regulation of persons registering voters in the U.S. shall be by regulations set by the Federal Elections Commission

Immigration :: Pass the Dream Act; initiate a "Private Bill Project" to accomplish the goals of the Dream Act until such time as the Dream Act is adopted.

Tax: Explore ways to encourage the repatriation of corporate funds stored offshore, including by an excise tax; consider an excise tax on funds or profits parked offshore; eliminate the tax deferral on offshore corporate profits; support the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act of 2011, S. 1346./ support a "pure worldwide tax system", support the Wyden-Gregg tax reform bill.( The Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2010 (S. 3018) ) - oppose a "territorial tax system"

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—Michael Barkley's campaign website, http://www.mjbarkl.com/-->