Candidate for
Councilmember; City of Berkeley; District 4

ORGANIZATIONS

San Francisco Bay Guardian
Berkeley Daily Planet
Sierra Club
Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO
SEIU Local 1021
Berkeley Citizens Action (BCA)
Berkeley Fire Fighters Association, Local 1227
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3299
United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO
Public Employees Union, Local 1
Laborers International Union, Local 304
East Bay Young Democrats
Cal Berkeley Democrats
East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club
John George Democratic Club
Green Party of Alameda County

ELECTED OFFICIALS

State Senator Leland Yee
State Senator Gil Cedillo; Chair, California Latino Legislative Caucus
Betty Yee, Chair, State Board of Equalization
Assemblymember Sandre Swanson
Assemblymember Tony Mendoza; Vice-Chair, California Latino Legislative
Caucus
Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson
AC Transit Directors Joel Young and Chris Peeples
Abel Guillen, President, Peralta Community College Board of Trustees
Marlon McWilson, Trustee, Alameda County Board of Education
Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan
Oakland City Councilmember Ignacio De La Fuente
Albany City Councilmember Robert Lieber
San Leandro Councilmember Jim Prola
West Contra Costa School District Board member Tony Thurmond
Berkeley City Councilmember Max Anderson
Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington
Berkeley School Board Director John Selawsky
Ricardo Gomez, ASUC External Affairs Vice President
Larry Bach, ASUC Senator
Lisa Stephens, Chair, Rent Stabilization Board; Downtown Berkeley resident
Dave Blake, Vice Chair, Rent Stabilization Board; Civic Arts Commissioner;
former Chair, Zoning Adjustments Board
Rent Board Commissioners Igor Tregub, Pam Webster, Judy Shelton, Jesse
Townley, Katherine Harr
Ying Lee, former City Councilmember
Ann Chandler, former District 4 Councilmember
Don Jelinek, former City Councilmember
Former Rent Board Commissioners Selma Spector, Marsha Feinland, Sharon Maldonado, Judy Ann Alberti, Corie Calfee, Paul Hogarth, Jason Overman

DISTRICT 4 NEIGHBORS (partial list)

Nancy Holland
Wendy Alfsen, Chair, Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter Transportation Committee; Corresponding Secretary, McKinley, Allston, Addison and Grant Neighborhood Association (MAAGNA)
David Bacon, labor journalist
Rev. George E. Crespin, Pastor Emeritus, St. Joseph the Worker Church
Anna de Leon, former President, Berkeley School Board
Barbara Lubin, former School Board member
JoAnn Cook, One Warm Pool Advocacy Group
Dennis Walton
Gary Earl Parsons, Architect; Chair, Landmarks Preservation Commission
Michael Sherman, Police Review Commission; Peace and Justice Commission
Kim Anno, Civic Arts Commissioner; District 4 resident
Michael Casmer, Public Works Commissioner
Julia Cato
Laury Thammavong, Commission on Early Childhood Education
Stan Sprague
Kate Obenour; Friends of a Berkeley Skate Park; Poetry Garden Volunteer
Garden Coordinator, Berkeley Arts Magnet for 17 years
Phyllis Brooks Schafer, retired UC lecturer; University Terrace resident
David Williamson
Carole Gill
Jean Tepperman
Henry Norr
Steve Mackouse
Marianne Robinson
Nick Bertoni, Berkeley High Neighborhood Association
Steve Paskowitz
Gail Borque
Katherine Pyle
Joan Facher
Janet Levenson
Zoe Kalkanis
Jennifer Mary Pearson
Bonnie Hughes, Berkeley Arts Festival
Tom Hunt
Leah Wilson, candidate for Berkeley School Board
William Bogert
Nicholas Galloro
Asa Dodsworth, candidate for Rent Board Commissioner
Maxim Levet, Vice President, Cal Berkeley Democrats
Tim Donnelly, Secretary, BCCE Local 6192
Bob Sheppard
Robert Magarian
Bob Dixon
Elliot Cohen
Bob Gomez
Peter Mendoza, Disability Commission
Anthony Sanchez
George Coates
Wendy Bloom
Stevanne Auerbach, PhD., Dr. Toy/author
Ralph T. Whitten, retired criminalist
Maggie Hurley

COMMUNITY LEADERS

Sylvia C. McLaughlin, Co-Founder, Save the Bay; Environmentalist
boona cheema, Executive Director, Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency
Winston Burton, Trustee, Library Board; Economic Development Director,
Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency
Cathy Campbell, President, Berkeley Federation of Teachers
Federico Chavez, Administrative Law Judge; East Bay Farm Workers Support Committee
Michael Parenti, author/lecturer
Vicky Kolakowski, candidate for Superior Court Judge
Gene Poschman, Planning Commissioner
Patti Dacey, Planning Commissioner; Secretary, Le Conte Neighborhood
Association
Sara Shumer, Zoning Board member
Jesse Anthony, Zoning Board member; co-chair, Berkeley Citizens Action
(BCA)
Danfeng Koon, Zoning Board member
Alejandro Soto-Vigil, Housing Advisory Commissioner
Vincent Casalaina, Vice-Chair, Housing Advisory Commission; past President,
Willard Neighborhood Association
Marcia Levenson, Housing Advisory Commission
Austene Hall, Landmarks Commissioner
Anne Wagley, Landmarks Commissioner; Chair, Citizens Humane Commission
Jill Posener, animal welfare advocate
Mark Liolios, Director, Aquatic Park EGRET
Santiago Casal, co-chair, United in Action
Martha Nicoloff, co-author, Berkeley Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance
Bob Marsh
Patti Marsh, Alameda County Green Party County Council member
Ignacio Chapela, Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology, UC Berkeley
Sophie Hahn, Chair, Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women
Lynn Riordan
Karen Folger Jacobs
Hannah Brown
James Grandison, Vice President of Preservation Action, Berkeley Architectural
Heritage Association
Dean Metzger, Board member, Claremont Elmwood Neighborhood Association;
former Zoning Board member
Stuart Flashman, Former East Bay MUD Director
David Mundstock
Carole Schemmerling Selz, Strawberry Creek Watershed Council; Parks
Commissioner
Steven Finacom
Judith Epstein
Lesley Emmington, former Landmarks Commissioner
Raquel Pinderhughes, Professor, San Francisco State University & President, Ecology Center Board of Directors
Lee Trampleasure
Rev. Sarah Isakson, Lutheran Church of the Cross
Jacquelyn McCormick, small business owner; candidate for Berkeley City
Council, District 8
Jeff Jordan
Carl Jaramillo
Phoebe Sorgen, Peace and Justice Commissioner
Mary Elieisar
Mel Martynn
Bob Archibald
Fred Dodsworth
Michael Diehl
Lindsay Vurek
Stewart Jones, candidate for Berkeley City Council, District 8
Yolanda Gamble
Neal Blumenfeld
Kristen Liemkuhler
Sean Dugar, former President, CA NAACP Youth and College Division; Chair, California Young Democrats Black Caucus
Mary Nicely, Peace and Justice Commission
Lucas Zucker, UC Berkeley CALPIRG; Labor Commissioner
Ipsheeta Furtado, Young Women Social Entrepreneurs; Society of Women Engineers
Ariel Boone, former ASUC Senator; former Internal Vice President, Cal Dems; Co-Chair, 2011 Western Regional LGBTQIA Conference
Mark McDonald, Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste
Kim Nemirow, Homeless Commissioner; Berkeley/Albany Mental Health Commission
John Curl
Alex Ghenis, External Affairs Vice President, Berkeley Student Cooperative
Sally Hindman, Executive Director, Youth Spirit Artworks
Ron Bishop, Architect, Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter
Juliet Lamont, former Chair, Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter

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