On July 26, 2008, Jan B. Tucker delivered a keynote
speech at a fund raising event for AB 540 students at
Los Angeles Mission College.  AB 540 students are
immigrants who were brought to America by their
parents -- usually at a very early age -- and who have
qualified to attend colleges and universities through
hard work and academic achievement.  But, since they
are undocumented immigrants, they don't qualify for
federal or state financial aid.  Click below to listen to
Tucker's speech on the history of the Southwest
beginning with the fight at the Alamo, the
Mexican-American war, the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, and many other topics.  Included is the little
known history of how after Los Angeles surrendered
to American forces in the Mexican-American War, the
people revolted against the Marine Garrison and
chased them out of Southern California all the way
past San Luis Obispo and liberated San Diego from
American occupation forces.
Ideas, Essays & Opinions
Of & By Jan B. Tucker
MISTAKEN IDENTITY???

For some reason, I keep getting mistaken for a black woman.

When Valerie Monroe and I held a press conference in 2000, a UPI photographer got
my name on her picture and sent it all over the state.

Then, Catherine Bridge, a reporter for the San Francisco legal newspaper, calls me
up asking for Jan Tucker.  I said “yes.”  She says, “well, will you get her for me?”  

I say, “if you want to talk to Jan Tucker you have to talk to me.”  She replies, “why, are
you her husband?”  “No” say I, “I’m her.”

45 minutes into the conversation with me, she asks me what race I am.  I’m offended
since the conversation has nothing to do with “race.”  I tell her that the last time I
checked, I was part of the human race, but if she absolutely insists on using her
terminology as “race” being dependent on skin color, I happen to have “white” skin.

She finally fesses up that when she called, she had expected to be talking to a black
woman since she’d learned beforehand that I was active in NOW and the NAACP.  
After 45 minutes she was thoroughly confused because to her, I talked like an
“African American,” or whatever that meant in her stereotypes of how African
Americans supposedly talk like.

Then, the same thing happens with black reporter Sam Williams.  He calls up thinking
I’m a black woman and after 30 minutes he’s not sure whether I’m “white” or “black.”

So now, there’s a new source of confusion.  My client makes out a check to “Jan
Perry” and hands it to me….

Well, I may be a supporter of the rights of transgender people, but I'm personally
perfectly comfortable having been born into a male body and I don’t think I look like L.
A. City Council Member Jan Perry.  Now, if I were female, I wish I looked half as good
as she does, but with my beard, hairy chest and back and my opposable toes, I
probably look a lot more like a male chimpanzee or gorilla than like a human female.

Go figure.
Jan Perry
Jan Tucker
Click this link for the Tucker authored "Model Ordinance on Civilian
Oversight of Police Misconduct"

Click here for state legislation to enforce the rights of immigrants to
organize unions and protest working conditions regardless of
immigration status

Click here for information on AB 1617 (2002-3) and the Model
Policy on Workplace Harassment

Proposed Family Code Section to Criminalize aiding and abetting
child support evasion
THE SAME PAGE COALITION
Misma Pagina
Ddok Got Eun Page
Haman Safhe

The Same Page coalition is a multi-ethnic
and diverse group of organizations who are
politically on the "
same page" on a series of
issues, including policies to combat
workplace harassment, retaliation and
discrimination, family law issues, and police
misconduct.
Click here for SB 202 Support Letter in PDF

Click here for SB 202 Support Letter in MS Word
Tucker for
U.S. Senate 2012
(see below)
Jan Tucker For United States Senate
California Peace & Freedom Party Primary, June 2012
(I was going to run in 2010, but wound up hospitalized at a critical point in the signature drive to qualify for
the ballot, so we fell 22 signatures short...but start planning now to take on Dianne Feinstein in 2012)

Tucker's prior candidacies:

  • 1974  State Senator
  • 1976 State Assembly
  • 1978 Lieutenant Governor
  • 1980 U.S. House of Representatives
  • 1982 Governor
  • 1990 U.S. House of Representatives
  • 1992 State Senator
  • 1994 State Treasurer
  • 1996 President of the United States
  • 1998 State Treasurer
  • 2000 U.S. Senator

Click here for Position Paper #1 -- Free Iranian Freedom Fighters Imprisoned in the U.S.

Click here for Position Paper #2 -- National Regulatory Standards for Private Investigators

Click here for Position Paper #3 -- Immigration, Immigrant Rights, Border

Click here for Position Paper #4 - Second Amendment & the Rights to Safety & Security of Person     

Click here for Position Paper #5-Insurance Co Profits OR a National Health Service

Click here for Position Paper #6 -- LGBT Issues

Click here for Position Paper #7 - Legalize Marijuana

Click here for Position Paper #8 - Protect Armenia from Azeri Blockade

Click here for Position Paper #9 - Home Mortgage Industry (Going after the real criminals)
Click here to read my ongoing Blog commentaries on a whole range of eclectic subjects; from the
intellectual to the outright macabre of my twisted sense of humor!
Jan Tucker's Blog Index:



Revolt in Littlerock California–County Nuisance Abatement Team
uses Gestapo Tactics against the elderly
What's going on in the Antelope Valley would make sense in Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia,
but in America????

Konversations with Kevin #3 (Kevin D. Akin)
The sad continuing commentary on the head of California's
Peace and Freedom Party

Elena Kagan Nomination is Scary
Did you pick up her personal defense in February 2010 of the government's
right to prosecute attorneys for representing accused terrorists????

Tonya Craft Prosecution shows need for Amirault Taint Hearings
In the wake of the McMartin, Michaels, and Amirault cases, law enforcement
and prosecutors never seem to learn anything about interviewing children.

Four Fabulous Female Investigators
Four Friends I'm really proud of.

British Election Results: 1 in 20 Have Gone Neo-Nazi
Nearly 1.5 million people voted for neo-Nazi parties in the British elections.  What does this mean for
electoral reform in Britain.

Konversations With Kevin (Akin) #2
In 1994, Kevin D. Akin (now State Chair of the Peace and Freedom Party) contributed his insight and wisdom
in a debate about U.S. foreign policy vis a vis the Turkish – Azerbaijan blockade of Armenia…..helping to
bring about a PFP position that was to the right of the Turkish genocide deniers and Dick Cheney!

British Elections Brings Back Old Question
In 1973 as a freshman at CSU Northridge, I posed a conundrum about the British electoral system and its
affect on whether the Queen exercised only authority and not power, or whether in the case of a “hung
parliament” the Queen could actually exercise power.  Today political scientists may be faced with the same
conundrum.

Open Letter to Presidente Felipe Calderon – Arizona SB 1070
What does the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo have to do with our contemporary debate on Mexican
immigration to the United States of America?  Everything.

Fascism coming to America?
Then-Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long once warned that “If fascism came to America, it would come on a
program of Americanism.”    This is what the immigrant bashing debate is all about.

Konversations with Kevin (Kevin D. Akin) #1
If you take Peace and Freedom Party State Chair Kevin D. Akin at his word, the people of Czechoslovakia
were liberated from the prospect of Western imperialism by the Warsaw Pact invasion of their country in
1968.

How to talk stupid & influence people (negatively)
An organization of private investigators, PICA, recently appointed as their “Legislative Chair,” a guy who
has publicly attacked the legislature as being a bunch of “whores” who take payoffs in quid pro quo deals.  
Smart move PICA.  At the risk of dating myself to the time when there were two primary typewriter fonts, why
would you want to join PICA when you can join CALI and be ELITE.

Florence Marie Cooper – a courageous judge
Judge Cooper once threw out a jury verdict because of D.D.A. John C. Spence III’s having violated an order
in limine to refrain from discussing the Hungarian Mafia.  That ruling displayed the depth of her courage.

Jury Hung 9-3 for Acquittal
I testified as an expert witness for the defense.  The jury hung for acquittal, but the District Attorney is
retrying this 33 year old case.

33 Yr Old Murder Case goes to Jury
The Prosecution theory of an old case—and what’s wrong with their theory.

Who’s Who of PI MCE Supporters (MCE #5)
Everybody from the City of West Hollywood to the California League of United Latin American citizens
supported Mandatory Continuing Education for private investigators.

Eyewitness ID, MCE #4
How MCE for private investigators on the science of eyewitness identifications can help to prevent
wrongful convictions.

Literacy as a Requirement for Licensing?
Unfortunately it’s possible for the functionally illiterate to get licensed as a private investigator—apparently
including some of the opponents of MCE for private detectives.

Why PI’s need MCE #3
How the Federal Public Defender’s Office allowed its employees to violate the Code of Federal Regulations
in opposing MCE for private eyes.

Stupid, stupit, or stupiter?
Am I “stupit” or are the opponents of MCE for PI’s “stupiter?”

First Amendment Rights & Non-Rights
If an ex-police officer doesn’t have a clue about the meaning of the First Amendment, can you imagine how
he might have misapplied the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights of people he encountered when he
had a badge and a gun?

Children of Abraham
In case my Jewish brethren forget, our own tribal mythology says that we (Jews and Arabs alike) are all the
children of Abraham.  

How I became a Gypsy
Many people view the term “Gypsy” as a pejorative term.  I view it as a badge of honor.

Tales of the Castle Dracula Part 1 – Helmut Brunjes aka Charles Oberman
Helmut—the Gay, German-Australian Sado-Masochist butler from my Castle Dracula days, made the Addams
Family’s Lurch seem normal by comparison.

66 out of 67 — More on my DNA matches
DNA testing has completely changed my viewpoint about my ancestral origins.  There’s a guys who’s almost
an identical match to my male Y-chromosome side with no standard way to trace how we’re related past the
16th Century.

Guantanamo–in the name of the “Volk?”
We need to look at the operation of the Nazi legal system in Germany to place in context how lawyers
behaved in justifying abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

Jury Duty
The next time you think about trying to get out of jury duty because it’s inconvenient, think first about how
Viola Liuzzo, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, amongst others,
died for the right of people to serve on juries, as well as to vote.

“The Garden” by Scott Hamilton Kennedy: Photo-Journalism or Propaganda
Was Scott Hamilton Kennedy really worthy of Oscar nomination, or was he just Leni Reifenstahl in drag?

Prop 8 & Same Sex Marriage
I won’t patronize businesses that support discrimination against LGBTI people.  Period.

Ghosts of X-Mas Past
Some of the people I used to hang out with were stranger than Scrooge’s ghosts.

Rocky Delgadillo’s Pay to Play in L.A. Business
Some people think ex-Governor Rod of Illinois was bad.  They haven’t met Rocky.

For Hilda Solis I was at the right place, right time
The speech I gave in support of Hilda Solis in the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor was one of the
best things I’ve ever done.

Bill Callison Bites the Dust
Bill was expelled from the Peace and Freedom Party State Central Committee for sexual harassment, but the
current party leadership still sings his praises and buries his past.

December 7 2004 – Another Infamous Date
Valerie Monroe died that day, a date which will always be of infamy to me.

“Redistributionist” “Socialist” ??? McCain/Palin’s attacks on Obama are Racist
The subliminal message is Nixonesque:  blame the poor.

October 30, 2008 Why I Voted for Nader/Gonzalez
I hate to say it, but “I told you so.”  Here’s where I predicted President Obama’s Afghanistan policy.

Tucker’s Black Magical Mystery Tour
Curses, I foiled them again!

Greatest Mistranslations
Macchiavelli and Khruschev  got bad raps in history, just because they got mis-translated.

No such thing as race
My DNA tests take me on a historical journey back through the history of my family and where it came from.

Peace to all, goodwill to People
Some reasons why Erich Maria Remarque is my favorite author of all time.

On “Tookie” Williams
The question is, can the death penalty ever be fairly applied in California???

January 9, 2006
Mutant lemons.  Believe it or not.

May 16, 2006 My Friend Nazy
An immigrant becomes a citizen!

August 8, 2008 Anthony Russo Passing
Tony Russo was a great man and a great friend.

March 6, 2008 “Crazy Carol” goes to the place of the dead
Natore Nahrstedt was an anti-saint of the FCOA.

May 22, 2007 Gypsies (Romanyi people)
The Gypsies are probably the most persecuted people on the planet.

April 21, 2007 Reflections on Hitler’s Birthday
A neo-Nazi sued me for supposedly having him thrown through a stained glass window of a synagogue;
luckily I had a provable alibi.

January 2, 2007 More Curses
Curse announcement for the FCOA.

December 24, 2006 My Friend Heather
Heather’s a fabulous feminist and anti-racism crusader, amongst many other achievements.

December 8, 2006 1001 Tales of Ishihara
Just as there are 1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights, there are 1001 tales of the crazy antics of Koichi Ishihara.


December 3, 2006 Magical Mystery Tour Update
Curses for the FCOA.

November 18, 2006 Bill Brent passes on
J.B. Tucker & Associates role in locating fugitive Black Panther Bill Brent in Cuba.

August 29, 2006 On the Peace & Freedom Party
Jim Smith exposes racism amongst the current Feiginite leadership of the PFP.
TUCKER ASSISTS LITTLEROCK
TOWN COUNCIL TO
FIGHT L.A. COUNTY NUISANCE
ABATEMENT TEAM

Click here for Resolution of the
Littlerock Town Council

Click to listen to Tucker's 5-13-10
speech to the Littlerock Town
Council and Littlerock residents

Click here for Jan Tucker's Blog
commentary on what's
happening in Littlerock
June 8 Primary
Election
Recommendations

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JAN TUCKER RECOMMENDS THE FOLLOWING VOTES FOR THE JUNE 8, 2010 CALIFORNIA PRIMARY:

State Ballot Propositions
Proposition 13 - Yes
Proposition 14 - No
Proposition 15 - Yes
Proposition 16 - No
Proposition 17 - No

Democratic Party Primary
Lieutenant Governor - Dual endorsement:  Gavin Newsom or Janice Hahn
Attorney General - Pedro Nava
United States Senator - Barbara Boxer

Republican Party
Attorney General - Tom Harman (I disagree with him on most policy issues but he's an honest, capable
politician and has real world experience as an attorney)
United States Senator - Tom Campbell

Peace and Freedom Party
Governor - Carlos Alvarez
Secretary of State - Marylou Cabral
Controller - Karen Martinez
Treasurer - Debra Reiger
Insurance Commissioner - Dina Josephine Padilla

Non-Partisan Offices
Superintendent of Public Instruction - Gloria Romero
Los Angeles County Superior Court Office #107 Valerie Salkin
Tucker's 9-1-10 speech on Chicano
Studies @ Mission College