Tim Carpenter
Template:TOCnestleft Tim Carpenter is National Director of Progressive Democrats of America. He is is a social and political activist who, for more than 30 years, has worked for causes such as nuclear disarmament, death penalty abolition, defending the homeless, and campaign finance reform. Carpenter established Housing Now! and Democrats for Peace Conversion (DPC), co-founded the Orange County chapter of the Alliance for Survival (AFS), and helped organize the Orange County chapter of Families Against Three Strikes (FACTS). He was a national delegate and served in key positions in the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson (1988), Jerry Brown (1992), and Bill Clinton (1996), and spoke from the podium at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York.
Tim Carpenter was director of the Western Massachusetts Clean Elections movement for public funding of political campaigns, and served as field organizer for Clean Elections' Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Warren Tolman. He also served as Deputy National Campaign Manager for Kucinich for President, was the campaign's state co-coordinator in Massachusetts, and the campaign's Convention Coordinator in Boston. He co-founded AfterDowningStreet.org. In 2006, he was elected as a Massachusetts Democratic Party delegate committed to Deval Patrick.
Tim Carpenter has taught U.S. history and government at the high school and community college levels. He is a product of the California State College system, where he graduated from Cal State University Fullerton with Bachelors Degrees in History and Political Science, as well as a Masters in History. Tim lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife Barbara Considine and their daughters, Sheila and Julia.[1]
Early activism
Carpenter's first political crisis came in the sixth grade at St. Cecilia Catholic School in Tustin, when his radical politics almost got him expelled. Instead, Sister Cathy defended him from critics—and later joined the Bilateral Nuclear Freeze Initiative movement Carpenter helped found in Orange County.
Tim Carpenter was in his mid-teens when he worked on the first unsuccessful effort to get an Orange County woman, Vivian Hall, elected to Congress, and he played vital parts of nearly every progressive cause in Orange County, beginning with George McGovern's 1972 presidential race against Richard Nixon. He was active in the Catholic Worker movement throughout the 1980s, sleeping on concrete at night to help protect the homeless from harassment by Santa Ana police, and in the 1990s he helped organize the Orange County chapter of Families Against Three Strikes. He has been locked up for protesting, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 1992 and counts Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Jerry Brown among his friends[2].
DSA member
In the early 1990s, Tim Carpenter was a member of the Orange County Democratic Socialists of America.
Work
Carpenter's day job was teaching history and government throughout Orange County, including Irvine Valley College, Marina High School in Huntington Beach and Rosary High School in Fullerton[3]..
Leaving California
Carpenter left Orange County in 2002 to become a top organizer for Dennis Kucinich's presidential bid before becoming executive director of the Progressive Democrats of America, which is based in his new home state of Massachusetts[4]..
Ohio vote
Tim Carpenter and the Progressive Democrats of America won a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the controversial Ohio vote in 2004[5]..
Endorsed Marcy Winograd
In 2006 Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America Executive Director was a National and State endorser of Marcy Winograd of the Los Angeles Progressive Democrats of America in her unsuccessful primary bid for the Democratic Party nomination 26th Congressional District in California[6]
United for Peace and Justice Affiliation
In July 2007 Tim Carpenter representing Progressive Democrats of America was affiliated to United for Peace and Justice.[7]
Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Carpenter is listed as an endorser of the Campaign for Peace and Democracy, as of March 15, 2010.[8]
External links
References
- ↑ PDA bio, accessed Dec. 30, 2010
- ↑ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/tim-carpenterback-with-a-venge/
- ↑ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/tim-carpenterback-with-a-venge/
- ↑ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/tim-carpenterback-with-a-venge/
- ↑ http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/tim-carpenterback-with-a-venge/
- ↑ Endorsers of Winograd
- ↑ http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/UFPJGroups071607.htm
- ↑ Endorsers