Supporter
of the Voter Owned Elections campaign:
This is a list of the 53 organizations and 16 elected officials who officially endorsed our successful effort in 2005/2006 to expand public campaign financing to the San Francisco Mayoral race.
Elected Officials:
- Mark Leno, State Assemblyman
- Jeff Adachi, Public Defender
- Aaron Peskin, president, Board of Supervisors
- Ross Mirkarimi, Board of Supervisors
- Fiona Ma, Board of Supervisors
- Sophie Maxwell, Board of Supervisors
- Gerardo Sandoval, Board of Supervisors
- Jake McGoldrick, Board of Supervisors
- Tom Ammiano, Board of Supervisors
- Chris Daly, Board of Supervisors
- Bevan Dufty, Board of Supervisors
- Milton Marks III, Community College Board
- Julio Ramos, Community College Board
- Eric Mar, President, School Board
- Mark Sanchez, School Board
- Sarah Lipson, School Board
Organizations:
- League of Women Voters
- Common Cause
- SPUR (San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association)
- San Francisco Democratic Party
- San Francisco Labor Council
- Service Employees International Union, Local 790
- Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare
West
- American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121
- Greenlining Institute
- League of Conservation Voters
- Noe Valley Democratic Club
- Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
- Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club
- Richmond District Democratic Club
- Bernal Heights Democratic Club
- San Francisco Young Democrats
- SF State College Democrats
- CLAER (Community Leadership Academy Emergency Response)
- National Women's Political Caucus, Board of Directors
- Telegraph Hill Dwellers
- Upper Noe Neighbors
- San Francisco Tomorrow
- Senior Action Network
- Asian American Political Coalition
- Mexican American Political Association
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- PowerPAC
- San Francisco Peoples Organization
- San Francisco Tenants Union
- National Lawyers Guild, Bay Area Chapter
- San Francisco Green Party
- Sierra Club
- Global Exchange
- League of Pissed Off Voters
- Gray Panthers
- La Raza Centro Legal
- Young Workers United
- Code Pink
- California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG)
- Public Citizen
- Circle of Life
- Mission Anti-displacement Coalition
- Democracy Matters
- San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
- San Francisco Living Wage Coalition
- San Francisco Tenants Network
- District 8 Tenants Association
- Our City
- MECHA
- La Raza Unida
- TheRestofUs.org
- TakeBackCA.org
- Progressive Voter Project
- Democracy Unlimited
- Design Action
Individuals (partial list, titles for identification
purposes only):
- Dorka Keehn, commissioner, Commission on the Status
of Women
- Sharon Hewitt, Project Director, CLAER
- Howard Wallace, vice-president, San Francisco Labor
Council
- Francesca Vietor, former executive director, SF Dept.
of the Environment
- Julia Butterfly Hill, founder, Circle of Life
- Valerie Orth, sweat-free campaign coordinator
- Adonal Foyle, player, NBA Golden State Warriors, founder,
Democracy Matters
- Angela Alioto, former president, Board of Supervisors
- Butch Wing, CA State Coordinator, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
- Randy Shaw, executive director, Tenderloing Housing
Clinic
- Robert Planthold, former chair of the San Francisco
Ethics Commission
- Yvonne Lee, former Commissioner, U.S. Civil
Rights Commission
- Robert Haaland, SF Democratic County Central Committee
- Susan Hall, member, Democratic County Central Committee,
treasurer, Richmond Democratic Club
- Conny Ford, vice-president, San Francisco Labor Council
- Isaac Wang, candidate for City Treasurer
- Van Jones, national executive director, Ella Baker
Center for Human Rights
- Matt Gonzalez, former President, Board of Supervisors
- John Rizzo, chair, Sierra Club, Bay Area Chapter
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate
- Carlos Villareal, executive director, National Lawyers
Guild San Francisco Bay Area
- Ted Gullikson, executive director, San Francisco Tenants
Union
- Steven Hill, Irvine Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
- Bruce Wolfe, member, Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
- Richard Shadoian, former Elections Commissioner, vice-president,
Coalition for SF Neighborhoods
- Guiliani Milanese, board member, Coleman Advocates
for Youth
- Rick Hauptman, CA Democratic Party Internet Caucus
Chair
- Renee Saucedo, director, La Raza Centro Legal Day
Laborer Program
- John B. Anderson, member of Congress, l961-1981 and
1980 Independent Candidate for President
- Gary Virginia, past member, SF Human Rights Commission
LGBT Advisory Committee
- Ling-chi Wang, Prof. of asian & ethnic Studies
at UC-Berkeley and founder of Chinese for Affirmative Action
- Robert Pender, vice-president, Park Merced Residents'
Organization
- Medea Benjamin, co-founder Global Exchange, co-founder
Code Pink
- Lisa Feldstein, former San Francisco Planning Commissioner
- Karl Kramer, campaign co-director, San Francisco Living
Wage Coalition
- Caleb Klepner, co-founder, Elections Solutions
- Derek Cressman, director, TheRestofUs.org
- David Cobb, founder, Democracy Unlimited
- Dave Snyder, founder, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
- Dr. William Hsu, Prof. of computer science, SF State
- Rick Galbreath, president, District 8 Tenants' Association
- Jane Kim, youth organizer, Chinatown Community Development
Center
- Dave Wilbur, co-chair, Green Party Housing and Land
Use Working Group
- Greg Kamin, PAC Chair, San Francisco Optometric Society
- Jeff Hoffman, Esq.
- Michael Fischetti, MD
- Michael Northrop, mechanical engineer, Agilent Technologies
- Mary Wong, software consultant
- Charles Kalish, small business owner
- Terrie Frye, community activist
- Barry Hermanson, community leader
- Vicki Leidner, community activist and mom
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This is a list of sponsors of the 2008 SF Clean Government Pledge. For the pledge, we only accepted sponsorships from groups that were not endorsing candidates in the Board of Supervisors elections. All sponsors also agreed to send the results of the pledge to their SF email lists.
Organizations:
- California Church IMPACT
- California Clean Money Campaign
- Change Congress
- Common Cause
- Democracy for America
- Greenlining Institute
- Healthcare for All
- New America Foundation
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"Overall people are excited about public financing
because they feel that their particular legislator will
not be tied to special interest dollars and that means
a lot to them."
- Arizona State Representative Leah Landrum Taylor
“Working with lobbyists now is fascinating.
Their approach is ‘may we talk to you and share
some information,’ not, ‘I did something for
you, now you own me.”
- Jim Sedillo, Arizona Democratic State Representative
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