About Ron Moskowitz

I ask for your vote in this fall’s Placentia’s City Council elections.  I deserve that vote because I honor our past, can deliver today’s innovations, and offer a bright future for our city.

Placentia is growing fast.  Unless our government becomes more efficient, more innovative, more active, and less defensive, Placentia may not be such a pleasant place to live in the coming years. 

2004 is not a time for yesterday’s answers to tomorrow’s problems.  We need a new generation of civic leaders to guard the best of our past, while leading us safely toward the promise of tomorrow.

I grew up in Anaheim in a time when strawberry fields outnumbered shopping lots.  I remember well Orange County’s small town, rustic, family oriented past.  I remember it—and you probably remember it, too—because it was not very long ago.

Orange County has changed remarkably and grown fast in the past two decades.  My career followed the area’s growth year for year.  In my teens, I devoured anything I could read about computers, and patched together and built the best machines I could with my limited funds.  When all the kids my age headed off to college, I put my course on an entrepreneurial track.

When I was eighteen, I founded Skwitz Enterprises, a computer and network consulting outfit.  I met with my share of successes and soon was turning a profit.  I did not disregard higher education, receiving a computer science degree from Cypress College, a degree in philosophy from California State University at Fullerton, and eventually an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix.

My education came from books and also from business, from professors and from the people hiring me as a contractor. 

My business grew fast, and before long, I found opportunities beyond my small circle of satisfied customers.  Lockheed Martin hired me as a senior network engineer.  Several years later, the Orange County Health Care Agency offered me a position, working in information security.

I have been honored these past years to serve our community at the County government.  Working for the County whetted my appetite for greater community service.  I am proud to have the opportunity to run for Placentia City Council.

After surveying the record compiled by our City Council the past two years, I have reached a conclusion that likely matches yours:

We can do better. 

For decades, trains swept in and out of our town, yet Placentia residents heard no train whistles.  The City Council allowed long-standing moratoria to lapse, and so the noise returned.  Signs are posted on our streets, boasting of the Council’s efforts to silence the train whistles.  Yet it was their inaction that allowed the problem.  As the saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

If elected, I will be vigilant in such matters, and the train whistles—morning, noon, and night--will be silenced for good.

Ron, Heather, & Mocha

at Tri-City Park, Placentia