Jon Mann:  

Jon is from Medford, Oregon. He is single. His schools include Clover Park High School. He later attended CSUN (Behaviorial Science, Music). He works(ed) at ATA Airlines, LAUSD, SM/MUSD, Los Ageles County Probation. Jon's interests include World Travel, Futurism, Politics, Biking, Baseball, Boxing, Red Sox, Lou Gehrig. Music he likes includes Janis Ian, Invisibles, Amy Winehouse. Books he likes include Watchmen, The Devil's Coattails: More Dispatches from the Dark Frontier, Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon. Movies he likes include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Mad Max, The Hangover: Part II. TV shows he likes include The Rachel Maddow Show, Heroes, Stargate SG-1. One of Jon's favorite quotes is:"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose Be pragmatic, not dogmatic The best way to win is to lose Civilization is not measured by the amount of energy and resources consumed, but by how it consumes...". More about Jon:"I'm preparing for my next run for Santa Monica City Council. It will be a paperless campaign and I need volunteers to help with campaigning, website design; a campaign manager and tech advisor to design a Virtual Town Hall for interactive voter input. You can Google Jonathan Mann Smartvoter for past campaigns. The incumbents are almost always re-elected; proving over and over that machine politics, outside interests, and city employees have more input into public policy than residents. I was born at the Fort Jackson military dispensary in Oregon. I spent much of my childhood living on military bases. Soon after I was born we moved to Scofield Barracks in Hawaii, then various Army bases in the Southwest. When my father was posted to Korea my siblings and I were left with our grandparents in Galveston, Texas. They were too old to care for us so we were placed nearby at St. Mary's orphanage. When our father finished his tour in Korea we moved with him to Japan, where I was raised by my Japanese stepmother. My father was next transferred to Fort Lewis. We lived in Lakeview, Washington and I attended Clover Park High School. I volunteered for the draft when I was 17, as a Navy musician (and noncombatant, which kept me out of Vietnam). I was based at Anacostia Naval Air Station near Washington D.C. In August, 1963, I went AWOL with my friend, John Louis Evans, a black trumpet player from New Orleans, to participate in the poor peoples' march on Washington, with Martin Luther King. We were told the march was off limits and there would be a race riot. Following the Navy I attended the University of Washington and California State University (CSUN) majoring in behavioral science. I was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). After college I spent several years traveling and ...Expand for more