"Coach Tom" of the Orange Crush T-Ball team at the
YMCA (with youngest son Hunter).
YMCA (with youngest son Hunter).
Celebrating my 50th birthday with my three sons Hunter,
Justin and Conner.
Justin and Conner.
Meet Thomas K. Arnold
My name is Thomas K. Arnold and I would like to serve
the citizens of Carlsbad as our next City Council
member. As the first announced candidate for the 2008
election, I believe I have the vision, integrity and
leadership to be your voice on the Carlsbad City
Council. You've read my North County column in San
Diego Magazine; I have coached your children in Boys
& Girls Club basketball and Carlsbad Wave soccer, and I
have tried to teach them to respect their neighbors, their
environment and, most importantly, themselves, through
the YMCA's Adventure Guides Program.
I'm ready for the next step. With our city fast
approaching buildout, we are at a critical crossroads.
And as we transition from managing growth to
managing maturity, we need the vision, leadership and
big-picture perspective of a veteran journalist with 25
years of experience covering politics, government, land
use, transportation, education and other critical issues
not just in Carlsbad, but also throughout the greater San
Diego region.
I was born on March 2, 1958, at Mercy Hospital in San
Diego, the only son of two German immigrants. I was
raised in Point Loma and attended Sacred Heart
Academy and, later, University of San Diego High
School. My first taste of politics came when I was just 13
years old and I walked precincts for Pete Wilson
the citizens of Carlsbad as our next City Council
member. As the first announced candidate for the 2008
election, I believe I have the vision, integrity and
leadership to be your voice on the Carlsbad City
Council. You've read my North County column in San
Diego Magazine; I have coached your children in Boys
& Girls Club basketball and Carlsbad Wave soccer, and I
have tried to teach them to respect their neighbors, their
environment and, most importantly, themselves, through
the YMCA's Adventure Guides Program.
I'm ready for the next step. With our city fast
approaching buildout, we are at a critical crossroads.
And as we transition from managing growth to
managing maturity, we need the vision, leadership and
big-picture perspective of a veteran journalist with 25
years of experience covering politics, government, land
use, transportation, education and other critical issues
not just in Carlsbad, but also throughout the greater San
Diego region.
I was born on March 2, 1958, at Mercy Hospital in San
Diego, the only son of two German immigrants. I was
raised in Point Loma and attended Sacred Heart
Academy and, later, University of San Diego High
School. My first taste of politics came when I was just 13
years old and I walked precincts for Pete Wilson
when he ran for mayor of San Diego. While attending
San Diego State University, majoring in business
management and minoring in journalism, I wrote a
music column for The Daily Aztec. While still in school,
I launched a monthly music magazine, Kicks: San
Diego's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine. I later managed
1960s pop star Gary Puckett on his early 1980s
comeback.
Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I supported myself as
a freelance writer, broadening out of my music roots
and into politics, government and features. I was a
regular contributor to San Diego Magazine, the San
Diego Reader and the San Diego County Edition of the
Los Angeles Times. I took a brief hiatus from journalism
to help in the campaign to elect Roger Hedgecock
mayor of San Diego, and later took a second break to do
some consulting for San Diego City Councilman Bruce
Henderson. But my career was in journalism, and I wrote
extensively about such hot topics as transportation, land
use, education and airport relocation. In 1986 I wrote a
two-part series about freeway congestion in which I
predicted much of what has since happened along
Interstates 5 and 15. I was a credentialed reporter at the
1996 Republican National Convention; I covered city
hall, and city politics, in municipalities ranging from
San Diego to Oceanside, from Vista to Chula Vista-and,
of course, Carlsbad. >>Continued
San Diego State University, majoring in business
management and minoring in journalism, I wrote a
music column for The Daily Aztec. While still in school,
I launched a monthly music magazine, Kicks: San
Diego's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine. I later managed
1960s pop star Gary Puckett on his early 1980s
comeback.
Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I supported myself as
a freelance writer, broadening out of my music roots
and into politics, government and features. I was a
regular contributor to San Diego Magazine, the San
Diego Reader and the San Diego County Edition of the
Los Angeles Times. I took a brief hiatus from journalism
to help in the campaign to elect Roger Hedgecock
mayor of San Diego, and later took a second break to do
some consulting for San Diego City Councilman Bruce
Henderson. But my career was in journalism, and I wrote
extensively about such hot topics as transportation, land
use, education and airport relocation. In 1986 I wrote a
two-part series about freeway congestion in which I
predicted much of what has since happened along
Interstates 5 and 15. I was a credentialed reporter at the
1996 Republican National Convention; I covered city
hall, and city politics, in municipalities ranging from
San Diego to Oceanside, from Vista to Chula Vista-and,
of course, Carlsbad. >>Continued
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