TORIE OSBORN is not a politician. She is a homegrown leader with a record of bringing people together to solve problems.

She is a businesswoman with an MBA from UCLA and a former community college teacher. Shes directed major nonprofits, managing multi-million dollar budgets, and she has successfully fought for equal rights, job creation and economic opportunity. TORIE OSBORN has spent her life working for change and is a strong leader who takes action. TORIE OSBORN is endorsed by 20 local community and labor groups, and over 500 business, civic and community leaders including: ENDORSEMENTS California Nurses Association California Federation of Teachers California National Organization for Women (CA NOW) Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley (DP/SFV) FO R S Los Angeles County Young T A T E A S S E M B L Y 2 0 1 2 Democrats Malibu Democratic Club Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains (PDSMM) Santa Monica Democratic Club Stonewall Democratic Club West Hollywood-Beverly Hills Democratic Club Victory Fund Former State Senator Sheila J. Kuehl Assemblymember Julia Brownley

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Dear Friends, I came to California in the summer of 1978. I remember it like it was yesterday: I was zipping down PCH in a beat-up white Honda Civic. I had the ocean on one side of me and the Santa Monica mountains on the other. I was surrounded by open space and possibility. Finally, I was in California. The place where anything is possible. All my life, Id been connected to California because my Dad grew up in the orange groves of Ventura. He was UCLA, class of 1941, where he got a world class education for $16 a semester. I followed in his footsteps; I got an MBA for $1500 a semester. That is, no debt! That is the California that helped make me who I am today - a California that invests in its people and its future. Unfortunately, that vision of California is in peril. The politicians in Sacramento have left our government in a state of deep crisis. Weve put tax breaks for the rich ahead of investment in schools and infrastructure. Politics as usual in Sacramento has only made things worse. This is a crisis - and the kind of leadership needed in a crisis is different from business as usual. Thats why Im running for the Assembly. We need to turn California around. We need to put action and results ahead of talk and political games. Its been my lifes work to forge opportunity from crisis. As a leader of community non-profit organizations, Ive tackled the problems of social injustice and poverty head-on. Ive proven that Im not afraid to tackle the tough stuff. I have the skills needed to build coalitions and bring people together to solve problems. Send me to the Assembly and Ill be your champion for the environment, economic recovery, education, tax reform, equal rights and universal healthcare. Together, we can wage a winning fight for real reform. I hope you will join my campaign by visiting torieosborn.com. Please call my campaign office at 323-656-6167 if you have any questions. Id be honored to have your vote. Sincerely,

Torie Osborn

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After her summer job at Planned Parenthood, Torie attends Barnard College in NYC and joins the growing anti-Vietnam war movement. Torie participates in sit-ins, marches and teach-ins because she believes the war is immoral and illegal.

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United Farmworkers launches Delano Grape Strike, Voting Rights Act passes

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Vietnam War escalates; National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

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Martin Luther King assassinated

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Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

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Torie teaches community college in upstate New York, then moves to Chicago to join the founding staff of In These Times, a progressive magazine that investigated corporate malfeasance and governmentTwrongdoing.L Y 2 0 1 2 FOR STA E ASSEMB

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Torie moves to San Francisco and organizes against the Briggs initiative, which would have banned gay and lesbian teachers from public schools. Torie plans, manages a 10-city No on 6 anti-Briggs concert tour and grassroots volunteer training that reaches 25,000 people.

Torie moves to Vermont to attend Middlebury College, where she experiences and witnesses gender discrimination and sexual harassment by faculty and administration. In response, she founds the Middlebury College Womens Union, which successfully reforms womens health services on campus. Torie also organizes a walkout to change the schools women-only curfew. She literally hammers sheetrock to help build the first womens health services center in the state of Vermont.

1970
First Earth Day; Students shot at Kent, Jackson State

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Clean Water Act becomes law, Watergate scandal begins

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Roe v. Wade decided; US begins Vietnam withdrawal; Tom Bradley elected Mayor of LA

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Nixon forced to resign

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United States Bicentennial; California Coastal Act passed Prop 13 passes; Harvey Milk, George Moscone assassinated in San Francisco

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The United Nations declares the Year of the Woman

Radioactive leak at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant

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Torie serves as Northern California Director for the National Organization For Women (NOW), organizing and fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment which would have created national constitutional protections against gender F O R ST discrimination. A T E A S S E M B L Y 2 0 1 2

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Torie becomes the first woman Executive Director of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center at the height of the AIDS crisis. Torie oversees Americas largest HIV/AIDS clinic, advises Mayor Tom Bradley on establishing a pioneering City of Los Angeles AIDS office.

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Torie earns a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance/Marketing from UCLA while working in the music business. Seeing small business and non-profit organizations as the future of social change, she gains management and entrepreneurship skills both inside and outside of the classroom.

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New Plague identified as AIDS Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space

Torie runs the Southern California campaign against Lyndon LaRouches Proposition 64, which sought to quarantine people with AIDS. The No on 64 campaign defeats LaRouches proposition in spite of weak support from elected politicians.

1985
Hole in the ozone layer discovered

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Iran-Contra Scandal unfolds

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AIDS Quilt unfurled on Capital Mall

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First major computer virus spread by the internet

1989
Students massacred in Chinas Tiananmen Square

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Torie continues to lead the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. She leads the $8 million building campaign and wins the first-ever federal grant for services for at-risk LGBT youth to prevent teen suicide. She also works to craft and implement the Ryan White Care Act, which provides support and care for low-income and uninsured people living with HIV/AIDS.

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Torie becomes Executive Director of the Liberty Hill Foundation, where she fights for economic and environmental justice. Her work helps stop toxic dumping in low-income communities, create more affordable housing and supports anti-gang, school safety and education reform efforts that still benefit our schools and neighborhoods today.

Tories book chronicling the everyday lives of gay and lesbian Americans and their families, Coming Home To America, is published by St. Martins Press.

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Torie heads the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She leads a historic meeting with President Clinton in the Oval Office to advocate for the rights of gays and lesbians in the military, and gives the major speech at the national LGBT March. She also represents the gay community at the 30th anniversary of Dr. Kings 1963 Civil Rights March at the Lincoln Memorial. Torie debates and faces down Pat Buchanan on the subject of gay rights on CNNs Crossfire. 1990
Nelson Mandela freed from Roben Island prison after 27 years

1991
Collapse of Soviet Union, Gov. Pete Wilson vetoes historic gay rights bill

1992
Civil Unrest in Los Angeles following Rodney King verdict

1993
Museum of Tolerance opens in West LA

1994
Northridge Earthquake

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Kyoto protocol adopted; City of LA passes groundbreaking living wage ordinance

1999

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Torie is appointed Senior Advisor to the L.A. Mayors Office and works to reduce poverty and homelessness by connecting philanthropic, non-profit and governmental agencies. Torie helps to establish Green L.A., a groundbreaking county-wideR S T A T of environmental organizations. coalition E A S S E M B L Y 2 0 1 2 FO Two years later, Torie also establishes the new City of L.A. Office of Strategic Partnerships, a national model for public-private collaboration.

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Torie works as a Super Volunteer for Barack Obamas Presidential campaign. She takes a leave of absence from her career, magnetized by the movement of young people drawn to the campaign.

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Torie joins the United Way of Greater Los Angeles as its Chief Civic Engagement Officer, where she works to innovate economic and educational opportunities.

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Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral

2006
California passes Global Warming Solutions Act

2007
First iPhone released

2008
Barack Obama elected President; CA voters approve Prop 8, eliminating marriage equality

2009

Hillary Clinton elected to the U.S. Senate

American forces capture Saddam Hussein outside of Tikrit

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2012 & Beyond:

As your Assemblymember, TORIE OSBORN will be a reformer and a champion for change. Torie is a local candidate who will give voice to our communities and fight for our agenda: EDUCATION: Torie will fight for dedicated, untouchable and transparent funding sources for public education and restore Californias commitment to excellent schools. Shell initiate reforms that lead to smaller class sizes, adequate teaching materials, teacher training, more decision-making for parents and teachers. Shell also fight for a new master plan for Higher Education, so everyone gets a fair chance at success. JOBS: Torie will fight to create green jobs and help build a new economy for California. Shell create incentives to stop runaway production and encourage entertainment industry job growth. Shell cut red tape so small businesses can create jobs. And shell encourage creative technology and multi-media ventures, making Southern California home to the next generation of smart jobs.
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HEALTH CARE: Tore will lead the fight for single payer universal health care. Shell champion community health and prevention programs, and lead the charge for consumer protections and affordable, quality health care for all. Shell support legislation to allow the Insurance Commissioner to regulate health insurance increases. ENVIRONMENT: Torie will be the environmental champion this district deserves. She will fight to make sure our district gets its fair share of cap and trade funds to build a green economy. Shell promote solar, wind and geothermal energy, making California the mecca for renewable energy. Shell work to and mountains.

ban styrofoam and plastic bags, and shell fight to maintain and expand public access to our beaches

Torie is currently a director at California Calls, a coalition of organizations working to register new voters ad help to mend Californias broken system of government by reforming outdated finance laws and bad budget policies.

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