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Phil Baer |
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Phil Baer is a SoHo Pioneer who has been a Professional Artist for 40 years and a Dad for 30 years. From 1970 to 1980, he made, exhibited and sold his own sculpture at his own and other SoHo Art Galleries. He is best known for being one of the first New-Expressionists and as Artist-in-Residence at the first and most famous Artist-Loft Gallery; his 3,000 square-foot store-front gallery in the middle of the SoHo of New York City's Lower Manhattan, by the World Trade Center where he was involved in an exhibit. His SoHo period Art was inspired by his San Francisco years (1965 to 1970) living in a hippie collective in the Haight-Ashbury and making, exhibiting and selling sculptures including during the Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love, a period of freedom of expression he feels was ended where Heroin Street Dealing Gangs took the streets. Phil Baer has been a Santa Cruz Beach Flats Carpenter and Sculptor since 1980; and since 1985 when the local Heroin Street Dealing Gang first took the streets here, he has been their best known opposition. It is part of his job as an Artist to fight for freedom of expression, which they kill along with their victims. He is a 60 year old Detroit native with a B.A.., M.A., and M.F.A. from San Jose State University. He is married with two sons, five daughters, five grandchildren, and an historic Beach Flats Family Homestead where several of his sculptures are on permanent display in his family home's yard. He is inspired by his daily walks along the Beach Flats Rivermouth. He is running for Council in opposition to the Santa Cruz Hard Drug Gang and it apologists. With its cool, balmy breezes, I believe Santa Cruz is the "Crown Jewel" of the Central California Coast. The focal point of that beauty is the San Lorenzo Estuary and beckoning Main Beach. Citizens should object to the desecration of this historic community and environmentally sensitive area by the hard drugs sold there, drugs that are killing our young people and demoralizing our Community. For the last 17 years, one gang has been openly selling heroin on the lawless streets near the Boardwalk and has now expanded downtown and elsewhere. Heroin sold on the city's property has caused hundreds of over-dose deaths. A 1990 study said a sympathetic policy towards illegals near the tourist traffic route enabled the street heroin dealing. Do most voters really want to live in a traitor town sympathetic to foreign outlaw gang poisoning our children? When the gang first took over, a few citizens attempted to bring the problem to the Council's attention. Citizens were "censured" and publicly branded as racists by City Councilmembers who told Gangmembers in Spanish that the anti-crime activists were racists against them; and then the child of one of the citizens was permanently scarred because of a brutal gang rat-pack attack. The gang won and the overdose occur with increasing regularity. City Councilmembers suppressed the truth by endangering those who spoke up. The problem has now spread downtown, yet there's still no change in the Council's approach. In Beach Flats, a 17 million dollar publicly-funded project is to be built and given to the Catholic organization that owns Neary's Lagoon Housing Project where Gangmembers live. Some say the Heroin Mercado is the result of a deliberate blighting to set up a land grab. Others blame misguided political correctness. Whether special-interest greed or blind cultural relativism, it is wrong. Why not try making Beach Flats look like the rest of the town? The City can change the names, the murals and image, pave the streets and try "tourist Area Hosts" Security Guards. Join Neighbors Opposed To Beach Area Drug Dealing (NOT BADD)! After so many unnecessary deaths and broken-hearted loved ones, the subject is still not being confronted. I'll support anyone who pledges to address this tragedy. We all need to push through the denial and face this epidemic. A Vote for me is a way of indicating that you want this problem tackled. Let's Roll! |
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