Biography: A former president and founder of Integrity Research Corp., where she directed research in electromagnetic medicine and nonconventional energy production. Member of the Health Instruments Devices Institute, a New York State Center for Advance Technology. Lectured and published on such topics as bioelectromagnetics, energy medicine, alternative energy technologies and electromagnetic pollution, hygiene, vegetarianism and esoteric healing techniques.

Q. What do you propose doing to bring about property tax relief?

A. Reduce dependency on property taxes through progressive tax reform. Those who can pay more should do so. Oppose public money being spent on corporate welfare instead of public welfare. No taxpayers’ bailout of failing industries. Recently, the Asbury Park Press reported that over $800 million of our state tax money was given to Lockheed-Martin Corp. in exchange for a promise of 65 jobs for New Jersey. This is not only an outrage, it is a criminal misappropriation of our funds. Almost a billion of our tax money pocketed by corporate con-artists — dollars that could have been spent on schools and health care and infrastructure. Who was responsible for this giveaway?

Q. What can be done to make housing more affordable?

A. The existing COAH rules are not currently being enforced. In essence, our current laws are being broken, and this must stop. These rules state that towns must follow a quota to build affordable housing for low-and moderate-income families. This is not happening in Monmouth County. Developers who break our state regulations should be severely fined and have their licenses revoked.

Q. What ethics reforms for the Legislature, if any, do you support?

A. Election Reform is urgently necessary. We must remove all private and corporate money from elections. Currently, whoever has the most money can buy the political office. The corporate-sponsored candidates spend up to a half-million dollars each to procure New Jersey State Assembly and Senate seats. As exemplified by the aforementioned Lockheed-Martin debacle, they are obviously beholden to whoever gave them their "campaign contributions" (glorified bribes).

Green Party — 11th District
 

Tom Auletta

Hometown: Atlantic Highlands

Age: 44

Occupation: High school

science teacher (biology)

Biography: High school science teacher since 1996; teaches biology for Freehold High School District. In 1982 received a bachelor of science degree in the biological-marine sciences at Richard Stockton College, Pomona. Education also includes a year of study in economics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Has worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service and Rutgers University assisting scientists in the collection of biological information to understand a fish’s ecological role in the environment and for fish management. Most of this work was done in New Jersey’s coastal waters.

Q: What do you propose doing to bring about property tax relief?

A. Remove the funding of schools from the property tax burden. This is a regressive manner of funding schools, with some towns charging high taxes and other towns charging small amounts. Schools should be funded using a progressive state tax, with families earning below $25,000 and individuals earning under $15,000 exempt. Regionalize the costs for town services. For example, each town does not need its road repair service. Regionalize school districts. The state currently has 611 school districts with much duplication of administrative services.

Q: What can be done to make housing more affordable?

A. Enforce COAH rules (Mount Laurel supreme court decision) on towns so they follow a quota to build affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families. Most towns do not implement this. Developers who build two mansions would have to build/restore a two-family dwelling in an urban area.

Q: What ethics reforms for the Legislature, if any, do you support?

A. Legislative action in Trenton is thoroughly corrupted by the impact of pay-to-play large campaign contributions to both Democrats and Republicans. We need to outlaw pay-to-play contributions and enact Clean Money campaign finance reform, like the ones already working in Maine and Arizona, if we are ever going to have elected officials who will be about the people’s business. We also support Instant Runoff Voting, where voters rank their candidate preferences, voting for whomever they like the most without worrying about electing the one they like the least.