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10th Assembly District race
Longtime Lodi politician looking to lower taxes
Lowering taxes. Scaling back restrictive environmental rules. Creating jobs.
Jack Sieglock
Those are among Jack Sieglock's priorities in his campaign for State Assembly.
The longtime Lodi politician is vying for the 10th Assembly District seat, which represents Lodi, Amador County, and portions of Sacramento and El Dorado counties.
Sieglock, a Republican, faces Democratic challenger Alyson Huber in the Nov. 4 election. Huber is a Lodi High School graduate and currently an El Dorado Hills business attorney.
The two are competing to fill incumbent Alan Nakanishi's assembly seat. Nakanishi, a Lodi Republican, is termed-out.
In an interview this week, Sieglock said he'll fight to improve the state's finances using a range of conservative strategies.
One example will be drawing back "cumbersome" environmental regulations that force farmers to replace and upgrade equipment at a dizzying pace.
Jack Sieglock at a glance
Age: 51.Residence: Lodi.
Occupation: Owns consulting service, Sieglock Communications
Family: Married, three children.
Experience: Lodi City Councilman 1990 to 1998; San Joaquin County Supervisor 1998 to 2006.
Hobbies: Fantasy football and following the San Francisco 49ers.
Source: Jack Sieglock
Top donors to Jack Sieglock's campaign
Source: California Secretary of State Web site, www.sos.ca.gov
He cited, for instance, local farmers spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace tractors just a couple years after they've purchased them, due to new regulations.
Chipping away at corporate taxes will also be a priority for the former Lodi mayor.
"The discussion should be tax cuts, not tax increases," said Sieglock, who served on the Lodi City Council from 1990 to 1998. "I don't think that you can continue to increase taxes in this economy. I don't think that's an option."
Sieglock said he won't budge from the tax cut plan if elected, even if a prolonged budget stalemate takes place next year, as it did this summer.
Sieglock said the key difference between himself and Huber is experience. Huber has not served in public office — a fact she said gives her an advantage. Sieglock, by comparison, has served two terms on the Lodi council and, more recently, two on the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors.
"I don't think this is an election or a time when you want on-the-job training," he said.
If elected, Sieglock said he'll push for more transportation funding, including money to make Highway 12 safer.
He added that he'll champion the construction of more dams and reservoirs to add water storage capacity throughout the state. He noted that he's adamantly opposed, however, to building a peripheral canal to help solve the state's water crunch.
Additionally, Sieglock said he'll work to promote the region's emerging wine industry.
The longtime Lodi resident said that listening is one of his best skills. Whether at the grocery store or in town hall meetings, Sieglock said, he welcomes input from local residents.
It's their voice, he said, that he hopes to take to Sacramento.
Contact reporter Chris Nichols at chrisn@lodinews.com.
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Al da long wrote on Oct 13, 2008 6:52 PM:
Wow makes the ones LNS listed look small. "
al da long wrote on Oct 13, 2008 3:31 PM:
Al da long wrote on Oct 13, 2008 10:52 AM:
s & W 500 wrote on Oct 12, 2008 7:41 PM:
Jack does seem OK, a politician, but I question a few things about him because I once was told stories about him "not" paying contractors who worked on his personal home. It was in the thousands, actually tens of thousands. And my "role model" got hosed, allegedly. I have no fact to base this on, only my buddy's word, which I take as fact.
I still do not trust the word of any politician! I think we all need to re-read and re-interpret Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Because for the people, by the people, today......Is just another way of saying BEND OVER, ITS GONNA HURT! They are not listening! "
OTH wrote on Oct 11, 2008 8:42 PM:
Have you ever in your life had an honest job? "
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