Who Has Endorsed Me?
This page will contain a list of endorsements from prominent organizations, as well as individuals. If you are an individual, and would like to endorse my campaign, please fill out our on-line endorsement petition.
I have not directly solicited endorsements beyond that of a few individuals whom I trust and have worked with, however, I have been offered the following endorsements (in addition to those listed on the endorsement petition); organization names are for identification purposes only:
- Metro Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz area weekly newspaper
- Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC)
- organizational endorsement; regional GLBT political action committee.
- Santa Cruz Green Party
- organizational endorsement; only candidate endorsed by the Santa Cruz Green Party; received the votes of over 75% of the participants.
- GLBT Alliance
- organizational endorsement; from County's premier queer political organization
- Coalition to Free Mumia Abdul-Jamal and All Political Prisoners
- organizational endorsement; from longstanding local grassroots human rights activist organization
- Mark Halfmoon
- Chair, Santa Cruz City Citizens Police Review Board, community activist, host of Voices From the Village (award winning television series broadcast on CommunityTV)
- Mark Krikava
- editor, Manifesto, Santa Cruz area newspaper for the GLBT Community
- Ray Glock-Gruenich
- Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress, 2002; longtime local activist
- David Silva
- 1996 City Council candidate (endorsed by SCAN and SEIU), longtime Green Party/homelessness/union activist, founder of Committee to Repeal the Sleeping Ban (CRSB)
- Linda Lemaster
- Chair - City Of Santa Cruz Commission For The Prevention Of Voilence Against Women, Green Party County Council Member (received the most votes of any candidate), homeless/housing activist
- Pat Clark - 1998/2000 Santa Cruz City Council candidate, former head of the local NAACP, community volunteer and union activist
- Susan Martinez
- political activist, SCAN member, Coalition of University Employees (CUE) Treasurer, Green Party member
- Joe Rigney - Green Party member, environmentalist, co-ordinator of the Energy Action Coalition, and Genetically Modified Organisms activist
- Fred Geiger - political activist, SCAN member, union activist, Green Party member, 1999 SCAN "progressive man of the year"
- Kevin McKeown - Santa Monica City Council Mayor Pro Tem (Vice Mayor equivalent) and Green Party activist
- Oscar DeLaTorre - Founder and Director of the Pico Youth and Family Center (PYFC) in Santa Monica, community activist; first Latino Student Body President in history of Santa Monica High School
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