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Jerry Tetalman
Jerry Tetalman is a political activist running for U.S. Congress in the California's 49th congressional district. He has been a real estate broker licensed in the state of California since 1990.

Early life, education, and business career
Tetalman was born in Cleveland Ohio, the youngest of four children born to Jack and Katherine Tetalman. He attended Cleveland public schools before graduating from Brush High School in 1972. After high school, he attended Ohio State University and was graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in 1978. After graduation from Ohio State, he moved to San Diego and earned a Master of Arts degree in Psychology from the University for Humanistic Studies in 1982.

Tetalman became the nursing director of a 25 bed mental health unit in San Diego and worked as a registered nurse until 1989. He then became a Real Estate agent and then a broker. licensed in California and subsequently started his own real estate sales agency and a property management company both in 2004.

Tetalman is married to Kathy Tetalman and has one daughter.

Political activism
Tetalman became politically active while in high school when he participated in protests to end the Vietnam War. In 2002 Tetalman met Byron Belitso, a publisher and peace activist from Northern California and in 2005 they co-authored One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law which was published by Origin Press. The book won an award as the best political science book in 20052, presented by the San Diego Book Awards Association.

Tetalman became President of the San Diego Chapter of Citizens for Global Solutions and then President of the California Citizens for Global Solutions. Tetalman also volunteered for several Democratic Congressional campaigns.

2012 Congressional election
Closely following the 2010 Congressional election, Tetalman announced his intention to run for Congress for the newly redistricted 49th Congressional District of California, which covers parts of Orange and San Diego. The district is currently represented by Republican Darrell E. Issa.

On January 21, 2012 Tetalman received the endorsement of the California Democratic Party for the 49th Congressional District race after receiving more than 70% of the vote at the Democratic Party's regional conference.

On June 5th, Tetalman placed 2nd in voting in the California primary election for the 49th Congressional District receiving 28,525 votes for 30.7 of the total votes. Under California's blanket primary system, the top two winners in each contest go on to face each other in the general election, regardless of each candidate's party affiliation.

Political views
Tetalman generally holds a progressive political viewpoint.

He supports the development of international law and accompanying institutions to promote peace and security.

He supports the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing the right of women to seek abortion.6

He opposes efforts to change the structure of Social Security and Medicare and stated that "America need to maintain and protect a system that has supported seniors and the disabled."7

He supports provisions of "The Dream Act" immigration reform, stating that it is "needed to protect children who were brought to this country by their parents, and who now want to attend college in the country they know as home."8

He opposes privatization of prisons and supports rehabilitation programs in prisons to reduce prison populations.9