User:Alexbarbershop

Alexbarbershop
Alexbarbershop is the Wikipedia editing handle of Alexander Barber, a 20-something caucasian male residing in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Barber is a self-described political science geek, railroad enthusiast, cat-fancier, Bitcoin evangelist, and an advocate for public investment in the construction and maintenance of public transportation infrastructure.

The Barber Family
Alexander Barber is the nephew of internationally renowned political science scholar, policy advisor to former President Bill Clinton, founding member of the Global Parliament of Mayors and NY Times Best Selling author Benjamin R. Barber, as well as an indirect descendent of esteemed 20th Century American playwright Meredith Willson, who is best known for writing and composing The Music Man, a musical play about life in turn-of-the-century Iowa which went on to win five Tony Awards.

Barber & Social Media
Alexander Barber also uses the handle Alexbarbershop for his Facebook and Reddit profiles.

Barber's personal opinions on matters of all sorts can be found on his Twitter account, where he tweets as @lexbarbershop. He additionally uploads video content as Barbershop1992 on YouTube, usually focusing on the subjects of light rail and other similar forms of mass transit.

Barber & Political Representation
Alexander Barber is a registered Democratic voter, and a resident of Los Angeles City Council District 13. As of April 2017, he is represented by City Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell and Mayor Eric Garcetti. Barber also has strong ties to the city of Long Beach, California, in which he previously resided, and still frequently spends time. While Alexander no longer lives or votes in Long Beach, his younger sister does, and both of the two Barber siblings strongly support Dr. Robert Garcia, the current Mayor of Long Beach.

As a resident of California's 24th State Senate district, Barber is represented in the California State Senate by the current Senate President Pro Tempore, Democrat Kevin de León. Barber's residence is located in California's 53rd State Assembly district where he is represented in the California State Assembly by Democratic Assemblymember Miguel Santiago.

The House of Representatives seat representing Mr. Barber and his East Hollywood neighborhood, California's 34th congressional district has been vacant since the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, appointed former Congressman Xavier Becerra to be the new Attorney General of California, who is in turn replacing former Attorney General Kamala Harris upon her being elected to join Dianne Feinstein as one of the two Democratic Senators representing Barber and all other Californians in the United States Senate.

A special runoff election will be held on June 6, 2017 to determine who will fill the vacant seat in California's 34th congressional district. After due consideration, Barber has decided that he will vote for Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez in the June 6, 2017 runoff election between Gomez and Robert Lee Ahn, primarily due to Gomez's strong progressive record and his extensive political experience as a member of the California State Assembly.

Barber & The Animal Kingdom
As of April 2017, Barber lives in a tiny studio apartment which, not unlike fictitious cartoon bachelor and butt of most Garfield jokes Jon Arbuckle, he shares only with his pets. Barber's two co-habitants, Mr. Spreckles and Gary, both of the genus felis cattus are named after 1900's San Diego railroad tycoon John Diedrich Spreckels and Spongebob Squarepants' meowing snail Gary from the popular eponymously named Nickelodeon television cartoon, respectively. Gary is the eldest of the two, although due to his having been a stray prior to adoption his precise date of birth is not known. It is possible that he was born in the wild, although his amicable and passive attitude around humans would suggest otherwise. Mr. Spreckles, born in 2016, has never known an outdoor life without the benefit of food security.

Barber is fond of wild animals of all varieties, but wild felines are especially dear to him. As only two large cities in the world are known to boast indigenous communities of non-domesticated wild felines, he is glad to live in one of them, and enthusiastically welcomes the 2017 arrival of newborn kitten P-54, the most recent addition to the Puma concolor community of the Santa Monica Mountains. The only other major city shared with a population of large indigenous felines is Mumbai, India.

Barber's adoration of wild felines and infrastructure intersect most clearly in the Liberty Canyon wildlife crossing, a wildlife bridge over US 101 proposed by Caltrans to reduce the number of Mountain Lions needlessly killed by freeway traffic. Such a wildlife bridge would allow big cats such as P-54 to safely roam and hunt across a much broader area of protected land, as well as prevent further inbreeding, a signifiant problem for isolated cougar populations. Barber strongly supports this proposal, and communicates the importance and urgency of it to his elected representatives with some regularity.

Barber also regularly encourages his representatives to invest in the ecological restoration of the Salton Sea, which is necessary to avert environmentally disastrous toxic dust storms. This could be accomplished with the construction of an aqueduct to pump water from the Sea of Cortez.