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Home City: Tucson
Member Since: 2009 |
Daniel Patterson is a progressive, independent and fiscally responsible Democratic Representative.
Daniel is a family man from south downtown Tucson, where his family generates solar power and grows food. He’s worked with many Arizona legislators, Governor Janet Napolitano, US Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords, and Republicans, Independents and Greens.
As a former Tucson Planning Commissioner, Center for Progressive Leadership Arizona Political Leaders Fellow, Board Member of the Pima County Board of Adjustment, and Santa Rita Park Neighborhood President, Daniel Patterson has demonstrated government and community leadership.
Mr. Patterson is an Ecologist with strong environmental, water and energy knowledge and planning skills to help quality of life in Tucson’s scenic, fragile and growing south and southeast areas of district 29, and across Arizona.
His priorities include improving the economy, education, health care, jobs, public safety, human & civil rights, water, transportation, energy and the environment. Patterson's district 29 includes all of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Daniel Patterson is the Southwest Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national conservation service organization. He formerly worked with the US Department of the Interior-Bureau of Land Management, and later directed a major desert wildlife and natural resources program. He also has business experience, having helped his family run a successful automotive company, and he ran his own consulting business.
Daniel is a graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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