State Representative

Barnstable, Dukes & Nantucket District

Tim Lasker

Democratic

Hometown:	Chilmark
Phone:	(508) 645-3700
Website:	http://www.timlasker.com/

Qualifications

Wind energy experience

Tim Lasker runs Swift Wind Energy LLC, a company focused on wind technology for commercial and home use.

Innovator in publishing technology

Tim implemented the first fully electronically produced daily newspaper in the world, printed at seven different plants around the country. He was the world leader in the conversion of newspapers from black and white to color printing. His company, dibs, was an on-line service for Fortune 500 advertisers providing access to digital color product images over the Internet.

History of public service

Tim serves on the Chilmark Planning Board and the Affordable Housing Committee. He served as Director of Development for the Polly Hill Arboretum, a not-for-profit Arboretum.

Source: Adapted by Imagine Election from candidate website.

Priorities if Elected

Environment

Tim's rallying cry for the environment is conservation. Yet even with conservation, sources of energy are necessary. He would like to create wind farms that are community owned and operated. Tim laments the use of harmful pesticides and herbicides which poison our environment.

Education

Instead of asking whether we can afford to improve education in Massachusetts, we should be asking whether we can afford not to! Tim supports education, including a plan that will allow Charter schools and traditional schools to work alongside each other effectively.

Healthcare

Tim applauds the work of the Cape Care Coalition, which aims to create a regional, community-owned, single payer health care system. Tim wants to move the medical industry into the 21st century. He knows that today it is possible to eliminate the redundant paper work and make sure that all medical institutions have access to records in secure central databases. He supports the Patient Safety Act, setting safe limits on nurses' patient assignments, prohibiting mandatory overtime and increasing nursing faculty and nurse recruitment.

Source: Adapted by Imagine Election from candidate website.