Jeff Ritterman
| Jeff Ritterman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 |
| 🏡 Residence | Richmond, California, U.S. |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
Jeff Ritterman is a cardiologist, politician, and activist from Richmond, California. He is currently vice president of the board for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility[1]
History
From 1981 to 2010 he worked at Kaiser Permanente's Richmond Medical Center where he rose to the position of chief cardiologist. From 2008 to 2012 he was a city councilman for the Richmond City Council, where he proposed a soda tax ballot measure to combat childhood diabetes that eventually failed to pass.[2] Ritterman acknowledged it was a "tough" campaign.[3] Regarding the soda tax, which was opposed by the NAACP and Black American Political Action Committee in addition to the bottling industry, he stated, "They claimed it was racist — that here I was, a white doctor, trying to impose a regressive tax on black people".[4] He also made contributions to the city's anti-tobacco measures, which have been used as a statewide model.
In 2012 he attended a Richmond pow wow alongside Gayle McGlaughlin and Nancy Skinner.[5] He also criticized the settlement that the Chevron Richmond Refinery paid for its 2012 fire as too small, as did Andrés Soto.[6] He also debuted a prescription drugs drop-off box with the Richmond Police Department that year.[7]
In 2013 he celebrated the passage of a soda tax in Mexico inspired by his soda tax proposal for Richmond,[8] something for which he travelled to Mexico to campaign.[9]
He expressed concerns over the potential of heavier crude oils from Canadian oil sands increasing the emissions of sulfur dioxide pollution for the dwellers of Richmond and the surrounding region in 2014.[10] In 2019 he campaigned for the Green New Deal and against coal being shipped through the city of Richmond.[11]
References
- ↑ Jeff Ritterman, MD, Huffpost.com
- ↑ Richmond's soda tax campaigner, Carolyn Jones, SFGate
- ↑ Richmond Voters Will Decide on "Soda Tax", Lisa Aliferis, KQED
- ↑ Minority Groups and Bottlers Team Up in Battles Over Soda, Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times
- ↑ Pow-Wow in Richmond honors Native American culture, Spencer Whitney, Richmond Confidential
- ↑ Chevron ordered to pay up for 2012 refinery fire, KGO
- ↑ Police combat rise in drug abuse, Julie Brown, Richmond Confidential
- ↑ East Bay activists celebrate as Mexico passes soda tax similar to one that failed locally, San Jose Mercury News
- ↑ Mexico may impose Richmond-style soda tax, Victoria Nguyen, SFBay.ca
- ↑ Air quality board plans on cutting refinery emissions, Jieqian Zhang and Phil James, Richmond Confidential
- ↑ Richmond council kicks coal ban vote to January 2020, Aaron Leathley and Aashna Malpani, Richmond Confidential
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