Allen Payton is the only candidate for Mayor to own a successful business, create local jobs, serve on the City Council and the Contra Costa and East County transportation boards. He is the candidate with the best combination of experience, education and energy to lead Antioch now.

Business Experience

• CEO, eTranzUSA, Inc. – transit system finance and development company – 5 years
  
• President, A.D. Payton, Inc. – branding, advertising, marketing and consulting – 10 years
  
• CEO, Payton’s Network, Inc. – natural products sales and distribution – 14 years
  
• President, Home Success, Inc. – national sales training company – 6 years
  
• President & Publisher, Press & Post News Group, Inc. – 5 years
  
• Founding Publisher of the Antioch Press, Pittsburg Press & Bay Point Press. Sold newspapers in Fall, 2005.
  
• Mortgage Banker & Broker, Licensed Real Estate Agent – 3 years
  
• Insurance & Financial Planning – 3 years
  
• Government Liaison/Sales & Marketing Coordinator, small home builder – 3 years

Government Experience

• Antioch Mayor Pro Tem & Councilman – 4 years
  
• Member, Contra Costa Transportation Authority – 4 years
  
• Chairman, Administration & Projects Committee
  
• Chairman & Member, State Route 4 Bypass Authority – 4 years
  
• Chairman & Member, Transplan – East County transportation planning board – 4 years
  
• Chairman & Member, East Contra Costa Regional Fee & Financing Authority – road funding – 4 years
  
• Board Member, East County Water Policy Committee – 1 year
  
• Liaison, Antioch Youth Council – 1 year
  
• Member, Citizens Advisory Committee, Central Contra Costa Transit Authority – County Connection bus
  service; Chairman, Accessibility Subcommittee for handicapped passengers – 2 years
  
• Walnut Creek in the Year 2000 Committee – Land Use Subcommittee, 1 year
  Intern, Office of U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, Washington, D.C., Fall 1985

  Community Service

• Member, Antioch Chamber of Commerce – 17 years
  
• Economic Development/Government Affairs Committee
  
• Member, Antioch Rotary – 14 years
  
• Rotarian of the Year 2008
  
• President-Elect, 2008-09
  
• Member, NAACP East County Branch - 10 years
  
• Marketing Director, Antioch Rivertown Jamboree, 2007
  
• Member, Northern California Trade Mission delegation to Ireland, 2006
  
• Former Member, United Citizens for Better Neighborhoods (UCBN), 2007-08
  
• Member, Antioch 125th Anniversary Celebration Committee, 1996-97
  
• Member, 1997 Antioch Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast Committee
  
• Former Board Member, Delta Advocacy Foundation, 1993-94
  
• Member, 1993 Antioch July 4th Celebration Committee – helped bring back the fireworks
  
• Former Member, Antioch Jaycees
  
• Member, Public Relations Committee, Contra Costa County Office on Homelessness/S.H.E.L.T.E.R., Inc.
  
• Former Member, Contra Costa Council, Economic Development Task Force

  Education

• Graduate, Leadership for East County, 1993
  
• Bachelor of Science – Public Administration/Political Science and Business Administration-Marketing,
  
• California Baptist College (University), Riverside, 1985
  
• Graduate, Northgate High School, 1981

  Personal

• Married, one son, senior in Antioch public high school, 17+ year Antioch resident, 31+ year Contra Costa County resident, 2nd Generation California Native. Age 45