I am the only Democratic candidate for City Council in the 20th who was born and raised in Flushing.
I served in the United States Marine Corps - I enlisted the day after the shooting war started in Desert Storm.

I am devoted to public service, not for profit or power, but because I believe in helping people.

I am a civic leader, on the board of the Holly Civic, and on the Kissena Civic:

• I have fought to help little leaguers have baseball fields they can play on.
• I have fought for our parks and planted hundreds of trees.
• I have fought for redistricting and testified for the boundaries of the 20th council, and the 22nd assembly.
• I have fought for rezoning for Kissena, and balanced zoning for Waldheim.
• I am fighting for the rezoning of Auburndale to respect the context of our communities.

I am an elected Democratic District Leader:

• I have fought for better services for our community
• I have fought for racial harmony in our diverse community
• I came redrew election district lines to answer their complaints about the difficult to get to election poll site for the Nuns of St. Michael's to vote.
• I helped establish 2 new voting sites in my district so voters could walk easily to the polls rather than trek a mile back and forth.
• In 2007, I stood up and endorsed Barack Obama for president in the summer of 2007 because I believed in Democratic reform, I believed in his leadership, and I believed in him.
• I am fighting for government to recognize that healthcare is a right, not a privilege, not a business proposition.

I am fighting to make our community a better place to live, to raise our children.
I am fighting for our kids to have the Best education, not struggle to keep up.
I am fighting for a better quality of life for all of us.
I am fighting for fair and honest government.

I am asking you to stand with me, to fight for a community we can all be proud of.

Remember to tell your friends to vote September 15, 2009!

James grew up biking the streets in Flushing. He took Sunday Chinese school in Flushing and Piano classes at Juilliard. James attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School and then NYU, as well as semesters at Columbia University, University of Southern California, and Queens College, earning an Excelsior Bachelor of Science.

His career has been as a Management & Technology consulting and developing solutions to complex problems. James' most famous accomplishment was for making the EZ Pass work when they were about to give up on it. Even Steven Spielberg praised James' design of the prototype American Jewish Holocaust Survivor Registry website.