City Council Candidate Profile, part 1 of 4: Doug deHaan

Doug De Haan is running for City Council, here is some information that I have compiled about him from various internet searches to help you in making your decision. 

This blog’s previous profile on Doug deHaan compiled when he ran against Beverly Johnson for Mayor and lost.   I am trying to stay away from adjectives to describe by how much he lost by, let’s just say, “a lot.”

Here was what Doug deHaan filed with the League of Women Voters when he ran for Mayor in 2006.  Here were his answers to Alamedans for Climate Protection from the 2006 race.

In 2004 here is what Alameda Journal had to say in their endorsement of Doug deHaan:

…Even though deHaan has never been elected to public office, he has worked for years to move Alameda from a military-based economy to a more diversified retail center, while preserving the Island’s uniqueness. He chaired the Economic Development Commission, the Base Retention Committee and the Base Reuse Advisory Committee. As a senior executive at Alameda Naval Air Station before it closed in 1997, he worked to help the 5,500 civilian workers there make the transition to other jobs.

He has served faithfully on numerous Alameda boards and commissions related to retail district revitalization and Alameda Point redevelopment. He urges smart growth. An Encinal High School graduate, deHaan has degrees from Laney College and the University of San Francisco…

I’m really curious about Doug deHaan urging “smart growth,” makes me wonder what “smart growth” means to Doug deHaan other than the buzzword “growth that fits” that he was using during the last election with the Slate.

A few posts I have written discussing Doug deHaan:

• Abstaining on the Appeal
• All or nothing
• Parlimentary Funkadelic
• Fun with Numbers
• “Intimate Domain”
• Who went where when…
• Unions? We don’t need no stinkin’ unions
• Election 2006 Roundup
• Have you gotten your campaign schwag?
• Alameda Democratic Club Candidate Forum

And finally, here are the answers submitted by Doug deHaan to Alamedans.com candidate questionnaire, includes a brief biography as well.

If anyone has more information about Doug deHaan, please feel free to add it to the comments section.  BUT…if you do post something, please make sure to cite your reference and add a link so that others can reference it.