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Part VI of “Cancer/Medical Moonshot–NA/ASEAN” Series
This columnist and his Facebook friends propose a pioneering town hall meeting with the top two winners of the June 2, 2026, California primary for Governor as guests of honor. The proposed venue is the City Council Chamber in the West Covina City Hall. The said event can be held before July 4, 2026. Or on a date mutually acceptable to the two finalists, as coordinated with city authorities and community leader organizers.
Perhaps the two remaining gubernatorial candidates may agree to do a “Covenant with the People of California”, which is a solemn and notarized document. Its main purpose is to persuade the governor-elect to persuade the State Assembly to adopt “Medicare for All,” which can become a reality through back-to-basics steps after state legislators convene in 2027. The healthcare plan emphasizes the Great State of California’s leadership in advancing not only in the United States but also across North America and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), with a new campaign against cancer and the other nine major killer diseases as one of its major aims.
This series emphasized early on why the healthcare initiative should ideally include the rest of North America and the ASEAN countries. This column also discussed how to fund it as a public-private partnership with mainly cooperative entities.
This column has been batting not only the adoption of back-to-basics governance, as addressed to then president-elect Joe Biden in January 2021, but also a “Covenant with the People”, as directed to political candidates in the 2022 and succeeding election cycles.
This column submitted to then President-elect Biden a copy of the “PSEED Platforms: Solving Unfunded Pension Funds, Homelessness, Save the USPS & Other Crises While Doing Immigration Reform”.
The “PSEED Platforms” document was initially submitted to the then-Hon State Treasurer John Chiang, who was then a candidate for Governor in 2018. This journalist submitted it, then the Ad-hoc Executive Director of MultiEthnic Coalition’s Campaigners (MEC2) for John Chiang for Governor, entitled before as “Suggestions On How To Solve California’s Pension-Fund, Housing and Other Crisis (Second Draft).
John Chiang failed to land in the top two slots of the 2018 primary. The draft of the course of said “Covenant” was made known to the two finalists in the November 2018 general election. But apparently, they did not want any of the ideas. Unfortunately, the staff of the White House Press Office did not forward the document to President Biden. Yes, even after the proposals were published later as a book printed and marketed by Amazon Books.
A former West Covina city council member, Fredrick Sykes, is the first community leader to accept this columnist’s invitation to join a Volunteer Committee to organize the proposed town-hall meeting. Mr. Sykes is the first Black-American councilmember to be elected mayor of West Covina. He is also a retired deputy officer with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and became a community advocate after his decades-long law enforcement career. He is now an appointed commissioner of the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County. In due time, this column will present the lineup of West Covina community leaders who will accept our invitation to join the Volunteer Committee.
