The Leisure World GOP Club will, on Monday, Feb. 1 in Club House 2, present California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, a candidate for governor of California.
Doors will open at 3 p.m. and the program begins at 3:30 p.m.
Poizner will present his case for the GOP nomination and will be open to questions after his talk.
This will be an opportunity to hear one candidate’s ideas for getting California out of the red and back to work.
Poizner was elected to this statewide office in 2006 after a highly successful career in Silicon Valley enterprises.
As insurance commissioner, Poizner oversees the largest consumer protection agency in the state.
He has managed this office very efficiently, reducing the operation costs some 15 percent during his tenure. Prior to this office, Poizner served the Bush White House as the director of critical infrastructure protection in the National Security Council.
Poizner was responsible for issues such as emergency communications planning for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and protecting the nation’s banking system and power grids from cyber-attacks.
He did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas where, based on academics and extracurricular leadership, he was named the Top Male Student in a student body of 40,000.
After leaving the National Security Council Poizner spent a year “in the trenches” as a volunteer teacher at Mount Pleasant High School in East San Jose, where he taught 12th-grade American government.
This led to his co-founding EdVoice and the California Charter Schools Association—the state’s leading charter school organization.
Since his involvement in the charter school movement began, the number of charter schools in California has doubled.
This program is open to the public, but guests must register first to enter the Leisure World main gate. They should call Carlene Nance at (562) 594-8298.
