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I got hooked on politics before I was able to vote serving as a volunteer in a mayoral election campaign in 1966. I am a professional archaeologist and historian,small business owner and a consistent life long Republican hater (Nixon turned me off to the GOP. I've lived in California since 1974 but my home, where I was born, is Manhattan, NY. I think of myself as a liberal democrat in the European tradition.