Sarah Bautista

Sarah Bautista is the only of the Reform Ticket candidates who was actually born in the Los Angeles Basin. She was educated at a state school and went to an accountancy trade school where she was an excellent student, if slightly "off" in terms of her economic analysis. Her final publication was marked as creative and innovative, but was marked down for failing to adhere fully to accepted accounting practices and for being insufficiently politically orthodox. She was hired by the northeast accounting unit of Angelcorp, which manages several operations outside LABRA borders, and was promoted quickly but with some finality almost immediately. Although she has worked for Angelcorp for over ten years, she was only promoted once, within six months of being hired.

She was married for five years to Breva Davids, a painter. They divorced in 2130. Bautista's entry on the Reform Ticket OpNet site indicates that she is concerned about "fiscal irresponsibility" in the payment structure of AngelCorp. As, she says, skilled and unskilled labor - increasingly, skilled labor - provides the substance of AngelCorp's value to shareholders, they should receive the lion's share of benefits. In summary, she says, "the production wing of Angelcorp has embraced new technologies and organizations and trained itself to use them effectively, yet management has ignored the developments of expert systems, biotechnological artificial intelligences and decision-making grids that could make them more effective, while still maintaining and increasing a disparity in pay that grossly distorts its value to the company." (This sort of tendentious, long-sentence theorizing seems to be typical of Bautista's writing.)

As for anti-LABRA sentiment, she has several low-priority flags on her writing from LABRA-Political, but they are typically self-published or small-distribution OpNet pieces on economics and management theory that do not appear to have attracted much interest outside her field, or inside it for that matter. The picture above is from a seminar she attended last year.