Candidate for
Council Member; City of Berkeley; Council District 8

Mike's endorsement webpage

Over 250 Berkeley citizens listed below (more than any other candidate) have endorsed me for city council. Please join our retiring District 8 Councilmember, Gordon Wozniak, Mayor Tom Bates, Councilmembers Susan Wengraf and Laurie Capitelli, School Board President, Josh Daniels, our Berkeley Police and Fire associations, along with hundreds of other Berkeley residents by endorsing me via this endorsement form.

My colleagues on Berkeley's Zoning Adjustments Board (ZAB) unanimously elected me Chairperson in 2013 and 2014:
- Prakash Pinto (ZAB Vice Chair; appointed by Councilmember Linda Maio)
- George Williams (District 8 resident; appointed to ZAB by Councilmember Capitelli, also Design Review Committee)
- Denise Pinkston (District 8 resident; appointed to ZAB by Mayor Tom Bates)
- Bob Allen (appointed to ZAB by Councilmember Susan Wengraf, also Design Review Committee)
- Shoshana O'Keefe (appointed to ZAB by Councilmember Max Anderson)
- Steven Donaldson (appointed to ZAB by Councilmember Darryl Moore)

The following present and past Board Members of our District 8 neighborhood associations share my collaborative approach:
- Shannon Brown (CENA Board; appointed to the Landmarks Preservation Commission)
- Fred Collignon (former CENA Board & City Councilmember)
- Mark Humbert (former CENA President; appointed to Transportation Commission)
- Martha Jones (former CENA President and Council of Neighborhood Associations President)
- Dan Lindheim (CENA Board; appointed to the Planning Commission)
- Matt Mitchell (former CENA Board)
- Ann Smulka (CENA Board; former Chair of the Transportation Commission)
- Dick White (PHA Board; Board of the Claremont Canyon Conservancy; former Commissioner, Disaster & Fire Safety Commission)

The Berkeley Fire Fighters Association exclusively endorses me.
The Berkeley Police Association endorses me as the first vote in rank choice voting.

District 8 Residents (listed in alphabetical order):
- Patricia Adler
- Ron Adler (LifeLong Medical Care)
- Stephen Ajay
- Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Eric Anderson
- John Armstrong
- Pamela Atkinson
- Elizabeth Balderston
- Roger Bash
- Gibor Basri (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Susan Berman
- Anthony Bernhardt (currently on the Energy Commission)
- Cheryl Berg (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Jesse Berg
- Steven Berger
- John Beutler
- Karen Bird
- Warren Bird
- Susan Blake
- Susan Blew
- Fred Block
- James Blume
- Charles Bogel
- Peg Bogel
- Azar Bolandgray (former Board Member of Saint Paul's Episcopal School)
- Lawrence Bosche
- Tracy Bosche
- Guy Bovie
- Katie Bovie
- John Brennan
- Sara Brody
- Jessica Broitman
- Judith Brown (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Shannon Brown (CENA Board; currently on the Landmarks Preservation Commission)
- Sandra Bryson
- Cristina Campbell
- Tim Campbell
- John Cardoza (currently on the Police Review Commission)
- Bob Cassidy
- Paul Chapman
- Tim Choate (Board President, Julia Morgan Center & Berkeley Playhouse)
- Miran Choi
- Cassady Churchill
- Elsa Churchill
- Paul Churchill
- Holly Coates-Bash
- Andy Cohen
- Emily Cohen (youth sports bloger)
- Jason Alvarez Cohen
- Fred Collignon (former City Councilmember; Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Joan Collignon (formerly on the Waterfront Commission)
- Michael Connor
- Michael Cooper (currently on the Medical Cannabis Commission)
- Sheila Cooper
- Sharon Hahn Darlin
- Shannon Brooke Davis (currently on the Zero Waste Commission; Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Laurent "Lo" de Janvry (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Tim Dewolf
- Hari Dharan (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Rhonda Donato
- Sharon Drager
- Anita Eble (formerly on the Personnel Board)
- Cheryl Eccles (former PTA president at Willard Middle School & Malcolm X Elementary School)
- Matt Eccles
- Richard Ehrenberger
- Karin Evans
- Chuck Fanning (Board Member of the Berkeley Community Fund)
- Debra Farb (former Board Member of Saint Paul's Episcopal School)
- Jay Feist
- Penelope Finnie
- Erie Flad
- Pinky Flad
- Andy Fremder (co-founder & past President of East Bay College Fund)
- Robert Gailey
- Alan Gennis
- Laurette Gennis
- Wendy Gibney
- Bill Godwin
- Kathy Godwin
- Tanya Goldsmith
- Robert Goldstein
- John Gordon
- Susan Groves
- George Gurrola
- Barry Gustin
- Robert Hamilton (Berkeley City Club Conservancy Board of Directors; Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Irene Hegarty (former Berkeley School Board Member & Cal Director of Community Relations)
- Betty Henry
- Larry Henry (currently on the Public Works Commission)
- Lawrence Hobel
- Judy Holland
- Tom Holland
- Kelley Hollis
- Barbara Holzrichter
- John Holzrichter
- David Hom
- Sara Hougan
- Anne Hudes
- Kevin Hufferd (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Paula Hughmanick
- Janice Hui-Rohn (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Mark Humbert (former CENA President; currently on the Transportation Commission)
- Michael Humphreys
- Sheila Humphreys (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Steven Jacobsohn
- Chuck Jaeger
- Locke Schultz Jaeger (former PTA president at John Muir Elementary School & SITE Council Chair at Willard Middle School)
- Richard Jennings
- Carole Joffe
- Pam Johann (former Trustee and Board Co-Chair at St. Paul's Episcopal School)
- Ted Johann
- John Jones
- Martha Jones (former President of CENA and Council of Neighborhood Associations)
- Rick Judd (former Zoning Adjustments Board commissioner)
- Charles Kahn (Kahn Design Associates)
- Laurie Kahn
- Ali Kashani (Citycentric)
- Joel Kaufmann
- Meg Kellogg (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Jack Kemp
- Ron Kemper (former Berkeley School Board Member)
- Alan Kittner
- Elissa Kittner
- Catherine Lazio
- John Leathers
- Kobi Ledor
- Casey Ledor
- Marlene Leverette
- Audrey Lewak
- Norman Lewak (former Berkeley Health Commission commissioner)
- Deborah Lewis
- Dan Lieberman
- Dan Lindheim (former City Administrator for Oakland; Appointed to the Planning Commission by Gordon Wozniak; Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- John Lyman
- Kay Lyman
- Molly Malone
- Barbara Hall Manierre
- Bill Manierre
- Lauren Manierre (currently on the Commission on Disability)
- Anna Mantell
- Olivier Marie
- Kathleen Macdonaugh
- Paul McKaskle
- Stephanie McKown (President of the Parent Council of Saint Paul's Episcopal School)
- Michael Meyer
- Tina Meyers
- Quinn Meyers
- Marty Meyers
- Terry Meyers
- Matt Mitchell (former CENA Board Member)
- Charles Mohn
- Francine Mohn
- Holly Moskovitz
- Ron Moskovitz
- Sandy Muir (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Richard Muller (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Rosemary Muller
- Julie Nachtwey (blog)
- Fred Nachtwey
- Cyrus Nassiry
- Doris Nassiry
- Carol O'Day
- Michael O'Hare (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Sujata Pagedar
- Panos Papadopoulos (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Jessica Pers
- Mark Petersen
- Denise Pinkston
- Dennis Puglisi
- Ito Ripsteen (Vine Street Investments)
- Pauline Robertson
- Dan Rohn
- Michael Roosevelt
- Jeremy Rosenblatt
- Shelly Ross
- David Rowland
- David Ruegg
- Eugenia Ruegg
- Susan Rubin (former PTA Vice President)
- Glenn Saika
- Alan Saldich
- Debra Sanderson
- Richard Scheffler (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Steven Schofield
- Henry Siegel
- Martha Singer
- Coby Sippel
- Eric Sippel (President of the East Bay United Youth Soccer Club)
- Ann Smulka (CENA Board; former Chair of the Transportation Commission)
- Carrie Spellman
- Kevin Spellman
- Laura Stachel (Co-founder, We Care Solar)
- Diana Staring
- Brian Steel (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Robert Stein
- Connie Straud
- Kyra Subbotin
- Mick Sullivan
- David Teece (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Leigh Teece
- David Trachtenberg
- Robert Trachtenberg
- Michael Traynor
- Bill Turner
- Micki Turner
- Linda Udall (Board of Trustees, Park Day School)
- Miguel Villas-Boas (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Bob Vizas
- Kathryn Vizas (currently on the Personnel Board)
- Ayelet Waldman
- Jane Weil
- John Weil
- Dana Whitaker
- Dick White (Board Member, Panoramic Hill Association & Claremont Canyon Conservancy, former Commissioner, Berkeley Disaster & Fire Safety Commission; Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Burl Willes (author "Tales from the Elmwood, a Community Memory" and "Picturing Berkeley: A Postcard History")
- David Williamson (coach of Berkeley Rhinos youth rugby club)
- George Williams (appointed to the Zoning Adjustments Board by Councilmember Laurie Capitelli)
- Sally Williams (former on the Community Health Commission)
- Joseph Willingham
- Steven Winkel (formerly Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission)
- Catherine Wolfram (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Evelyn Wozniak
- Gordon Wozniak (Berkeley City Councilmember for District 8)
- Robert Wrubel

Other Berkeley Residents who endorse Mike but don't live in District 8:
- Barbara Allen (appointed to the Police Review Commission by Councilmember Susan Wengraf)
- Bob Allen (appointed to the Zoning Adjustments Board by Councilmember Susan Wengraf)
- Errol Arkilic
- Tom Bates (Mayor, City of Berkeley)
- Anna Bellomo (appointed to the Commission on the Status of Women by Mayor Tom Bates)
- Josh Bloom (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike; startup co-founder of Wise.io in Downtown Berkeley)
- Laurie Capitelli (Berkeley City Councilmember for District 5)
- Cindy Chang (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- KG Charles-Harris
- Graham Chisolm
- Josh Daniels (Berkeley School Board President)
- Steven Donaldson (appointed to the Zoning Adjustments Board by Councilmember Darryl Moore; Radiant Brands)
- Dan Feinberg
- Dave Fogarty
- Sheldon Greene (Berkeley Art Center)
- Steven Goldin (Swerve)
- Robert Hatheway (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Chris Hudson (former Deputy Director of the Congress of the New Urbanism)
- Susi Jensen
- Steven Grand
- Deborah Matthews (appointed to the Planning Commission by Mayor Tom Bates)
- Christy McDonald
- Evan McDonald
- Jim Novosel (appointed to the Planning Commission)
- Cleya Ormiston (Haas MBA 2014)
- Prakash Pinto (Vice Chair of the Zoning Adjustments Board and appointed by Councilmember Linda Maio)
- Harry Pollack (formerly on the Planning Commission)
- Holly Scheider
- Fred Schlachter (appointed to the Energy Commission by Councilmember Susan Wengraf)
- Bart Schultz (Vital Signs)
- David Summers
- Bernt Wahl (Cal Faculty, Staff & Students for Mike)
- Susan Wengraf (Berkeley City Councilmember for District 6)
- Calvin Wright
- Stace Wright (Eureka Cartography)
- Suzanne Wright (First Grade Teacher, Berkeley Arts Magnet K-5 School)