Your Endorsement is important to me...
I want to represent you, Palo Alto residents, and to restore trust and confidence in our City government and protect our quality of life. Please join your friends and neighbors and endorse me. Thank you.
You will notice that I have no organizational endorsements other than the local Sierra Club chapter* - I decided not to seek any endorsements other than that one for three reasons:
- I believe that Council members should be focused first on the City's priorities versus organizational interests,
- I am not willing, for the sake of an endorsement, to obligate myself to an organization's position on issues that I have not had the chance to hear debated; nor am I willing to tell them that I will work to make their priorities those of the City just to get an endorsement, and
- There are frequently too many questions that beg for simple answers to complex questions.
*I made an exception for the Sierra Club because I believe in what it stands for. You can find the questionnaire and my answers here - I believe strongly that the endorsement process should be more transparent (as laid out in the blog cited below).
If you are interested in more information on how the endorsement process differs from what you might think and want, I recommend “Campaign Endorsements: Behind the Curtain” by Palo Alto Online blogger Doug Moran (Nov 22, 2014).
Honorary Chairs:
Tom Dubois, City Council Member
Eric Filseth, City Council Member
Karen Holman, City Council Member and former Mayor
Greg Schmid, City Council Member and former Vice Mayor
Pat Markevitch – Campaign Manager
Christopher Hetterly – Campaign Treasurer
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