Tom Bates
Template:TOCnestleft Tom Bates is the former mayor of Berkeley, California. he is married to Loni Hancock.
Thomas H. Bates was born in San Diego in 1938. Both of his parents, Harley and Gladys, were from small town Iowa. They relocated to California when Harley, a salesman for Sunshine Biscuits in the Des Moines area, was transferred there, awarded the post of regional sales manager of San Diego, then promoted to sales manager of the L.A. region. They bought a place in rural La Habra Heights, just south of L.A., ten acres, with orange and avocado trees, horses, chickens, and rabbits. That was where Tom spent his formative years.
In the fall of 1956, Bates arrived in Berkeley and joined the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
IPS connection
In 1979 Tom Bates, State Assembly, CA served on the steering committee of the Institute for Policy Studies initiated Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies.[1]
Socialist support
According to Karl Knobler, in 2002 East Bay Democratic Socialists of America joined with progressive Democrats and the Committees of Correspondence in the People’s Electoral Project to support propositions and get Tom Bates elected Mayor of Berkeley.[2]
Supporting Sandre Swanson
In 2006, Tom Bates, Mayor of Berkeley, was one of many prominent Northern California leftists to serve on State Assembly hopeful Sandre Swanson's Honorary Campaign Committee.[3]
References
- ↑ Information Digest August 24, 1979
- ↑ Dem. Left Winter 2002
- ↑ Sandre Swanson website, Endorsements, accessed July 28, 2011