The speaker will provide details of his campaign run for Santa Cruz City Council, District X, including his vision for a new form of local government that hands greater decision-making power over to the individual rather than to the politicians. This will be a high-level overview that will include a discussion of the fundamental elements of the campaign platform: (a) Think Different, (b) Nonpartisanship, (c) the Direct Democracy Experiment and (d) the Five-Point Charter.