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I have been participating in the
COG trip for several years. I do believe in it 100%. Let me
tell you why. Five years ago I was interested in seeing what COG
was doing on behalf of my tax dollars (Measure K). I decided to go
to Washington DC to see first hand what our city's leaders were
doing on behalf of all of us. I was and still am very impressed
with the time and dedication city leaders put into this trip. It
is so important to continue going back annually to DC as a unified
voice from our region this helps to build relationships with
members of Congress as well as Administration staff. Not only is
there local officials but private sector as well. This is a good
and strong benefit. The process that each jurisdictions and
participating agencies goes through to research, select, approve,
and review the regional priority projects for our federal
platforms, in itself, vital and necessary to help distill our many
needs for our region. Through One Voice we provide our
congressional representatives informed and local input from all
the districts. The feed back from Congressional representatives
indicates the One Voice helps them to better understand our
central issues, and as well to advocate for our regional priority
requests. This trip as One Voice puts focus on how regional
cooperation and support opens doors for a variety of
opportunities. This year the districts federal funding requests
total $131,971,970. This includes private sector as well. To date
more than 54 million dollars has been generated through One Voice.
I hope this helps all readers of this
page to better understand the importance of One Voice. I
think participating city officials need to continue to educate the
public about how the One Voice process itself helps the region.
Please remember all projects local or regionally we (all cities
and citizens) benefit by.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Dennis Cordosa
and Congressman Jerry McNerney pictured with San Joaquin One
Voice Group leaders trip to Washington DC 4/25/07 |
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Barbara Boxer U.S. Senator from California, and members of San
Joaquin One Voice Group leaders in Washington DC. 4/9/08 |
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Congressman Dennis Cordosa
and Congressman Jerry McNerney pictured with San Joaquin One
Voice Group leaders trip to Washington DC 4/9/08 |
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Congressman Richard Pombo and Congressman Dennis Cordosa
pictured with San Joaquin One Voice Group leaders trip to Washington DC 4/1/06 |
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Former Mayor of New York City
Rudy Giuliani, Chamber CEO Debby Moorhead and guests at Stockton's Business
Summit. |
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Barbara Boxer U.S. Senator from California, and members of San
Joaquin One Voice Group leaders in Washington DC. |
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Congressman Dennis Cordosa and Debby Moorhead CEO 4/25/07 |
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Congressman Richard Pombo, Debby Moorhead CEO and Debbie Penrose Executive Assistant 8/24/06 |
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Luncheon with Assemblyman Alan Nakanishi 10th District. Pictured
left to right are, Chuck Crutchfield, Tom Hood, Debby Moorhead, Rick
Fatzer, Assemblyman Alan Nakanishi and Jim McDonough. 10/28/05 |
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Diane Bowers, Senator Michael Machado and Manteca Chamber of
Commerce CEO, Debby Moorhead |
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Assemblyman Gregg Aghazarian
and Manteca Chamber of Commerce CEO,
Debby Moorhead
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