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Aaron Starr
Aaron Starr ran for election for Mayor of Oxnard in California. Starr lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Career
After graduating from California State University, Northridge with degrees in finance and accounting, Aaron Starr began working in public accounting. He eventually moved into accounting for private industry. As of February 2016, Starr was the controller of Haas Automation, a machine tool manufacturer in Oxnard, Calif.[1]
In 1988, Starr ran for a seat in the California State Senate. He received 2.8 percent of the vote and lost the election to Ed Davis (R).[2] In 2016, Starr ran unsuccessfully for a spot on the Oxnard City Council. According to his campaign website, key issues in this race included "fostering a small business climate to retain and grow jobs," "crime and public safety," and "maintaining roads and infrastructure."[3]
Most of Starr's political work has been with the Libertarian Party of California and the national Libertarian Party. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the state party's chair, and from 2006 to 2010 he was the treasurer of the national party.[4] As treasurer for the national party, Starr received criticism for a memo he wrote in 2009 discussing Libertarian Party at-large representative R. Lee Wrights. Delegates to the 2008 Libertarian National Convention called for Starr's censure, claiming in a petition to the national party committee that he made confidential donor information public and that this constituted an "abuse of his position as our elected Treasurer."[5]
In series of comments on the news website Independent Political Report, Starr responded to these allegations, writing, "For the record, the memo in question was distributed only to the LNC [note: Libertarian National Committee] and to Lee Wrights, and involved a discussion of confidential FEC matters. ... I stand by every word I wrote in that memo as being factual. ... It should have been obvious to both Wrights and anyone on the LNC reading it at the time that it was not intended for further dissemination."[6]
Starr was a proponent of the 2010 ballot measure California Grassroots Initiative Reform Act.[7] The measure would have changed "the process which governs how initiative and referendum measures qualify for placement on the ballot," but it failed to make the ballot.[8]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for Mayor of Oxnard
Incumbent Tim Flynn defeated Aaron Starr and Mario Quintana in the general election for Mayor of Oxnard on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Tim Flynn (Nonpartisan) | 49.0 | 21,147 | |
| Aaron Starr (Nonpartisan) | 30.0 | 12,929 | ||
| Mario Quintana (Nonpartisan) | 20.1 | 8,684 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 381 | ||
| Total votes: 43,141 | |||
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Starr for Oxnard, "About," accessed February 26, 2016
- ↑ Join California, "November 8, 1988 General Election," accessed February 26, 2016
- ↑ Starr for Oxnard, "Issues," accessed February 26, 2016
- ↑ Join California, "Aaron Starr," accessed February 26, 2016
- ↑ Activism, "Delegates call for an apology from Aaron Starr," accessed February 26, 2016
- ↑ Independent Political Report, "2008 LP Delegate Petition Calls for Treasurer to Apologize for Sharing Donor Data," July 16, 2009
- ↑ California Office of the Attorney General, "Withdrawn or Failed proposals in 2009," accessed February 26, 2016
- ↑ California Office of the Attorney General, "Summary of Initiative 09-0038," accessed February 26, 2016
