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Santa Clara County, CA November 4, 2014 Election
Smart Voter Additional Endorsements for Gary Kremen

Candidate for
Director; Santa Clara Valley Water District; Division 7

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U.S. Congress

  • Anna Eshoo, Congressperson; Member, Committee on Energy and Commerce; Ranking Member of Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
  • Eric Swalwell, East Bay Congressperson; Member, Committee on Science, Space and Technology; Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy

State of California Constitutional Officers
  • John Chiang, California State Controller
  • Dave Jones, California State Insurance Commissioner
  • Steve Westly, Former California State Controller
    California State Assembly and Senate

Jerry Hill, California Senate Member representing the 13th district
Paul Fong, California State Assembly Member representing the 28th district
Mark Stone, California State Assembly Member representing the 29th district
Rich Gordon, California State Assembly Member representing the 24th district
Fiona Ma, California Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Emeritus; former San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Sally Lieber, California Assembly Speaker Pro Tempore Emeritus; former Mountain View Mayor and City Council member
Jim Cunneen, former Assembly Member representing the 29th district; former President and CEO San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce
Santa Clara County Law Enforcement

Laurie Smith, Sheriff of Santa Clara County
Jeff Rosen, District Attorney of Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and Board of Education

Ken Yeager, Santa Clara County Supervisor; former San Jose City Council member; SJSU political science instructor
Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County Supervisor; former San Jose City Council member
David Cortese, Santa Clara County Supervisor; former San Jose City Council member
Grace Mah, Santa Clara County Board of Education, representing Palo Alto Unified, Los Altos Union, Mountain View Whisman, Mountain View-Los Altos Union High school districts
Don Gage, current Mayor of Gilroy, former Santa Clara County Supervisor; former member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District

City of Palo Alto

Nancy Shepherd, Mayor of Palo Alto, current Palo Alto City Council Member
Gail Price, current Palo Alto City Council Member; former Palo Alto Unified School Board Trustee; Board Member of Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Larry Klein, former Mayor of Palo Alto and current City Council Member
Greg Scharff, former Mayor of Palo Alto and current City Council Member
Marc Berman, Palo Alto City Council member; former member of Independent Monitoring Committee for Clean Safe Creeks and Natural Flood Protection Plan
Sid Espinosa, former Mayor of Palo Alto and former City Council Member
Barb Mitchell, President, Palo Alto Unified School School Board Trustee
Melissa Baten Caswell, Vice President, Palo Alto Unified School School Board Trustee
Dana Tom, Palo Alto Unified School Board, former President, Palo Alto Unified School Board
Heidi Emberling, Trustee, Palo Alto Unified School District
Julie Jerome, former President, Palo Alto Unified School School Board Trustee
Jon Foster, Commissioner, Palo Alto Utilities Advisory Commission
Bern Beecham, former Mayor and former City Council Member
Mary Hughes, Close the Gap
Arthur Keller, Commissioner, Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission
Ray Bacchetti, Retired Vice President at Stanford.
Adean Golub, Los Altos Little League; American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO); Activist
Xenia Hammer, San Francisquito Creek activist
Jeff Blum, former Palo Alto Human Relations Committee, Founder and Co-Chair of Alternative Dispute Resolution Panel at Palo Alto Area Bar Association
Verne Freeman, 5th generation Palo Alto family, Barron Park resident, Great Great Grandfather drove Senator Stanford's horse and buggy
Steve Bennet and Leslie Dorosin, Long time Barron Park residents
Robin Lee, Long term Barron Park resident
Barr and Chantal Dolan, Long time Crescent Park residents
Julia Tapia, Long time Barron Park resident
Rob Koch, Long time Evergreen Park resident
Cathy Kroymann, former president Palo Alto School Board
Elspeth Farmer, California Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee
Hal Plotkin, Senior Open Policy Fellow at Creative Commons USA. Past: Office of the Under Secretary, United States Department of Education and Center for Media Change, Inc.

City of Mountain View

Margaret Abe-Koga, Current Mountain View City Council Member, former Mayor; Housing Trust of Santa Clara County board member.
Michael Kasperzak, Current Mountain View City Council Member, former Mayor
Tom Means, former Mountain View Mayor and former City Council member; SJSU Economics professor
Matt Pear; Current Mountain View City Council Member, former Mayor; former member Bay Area Water Supply And Conservation Agency, Stanford Bay Area Charities.
Ellen Kamei, Vice Chairperson of the Mountain View Environmental Planning Commission
Ken Rosenberg, Chair of the Board of the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce
Marc Roddin, City of Mountain View Bicycle / Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Joe McGuckin, owner of Via.Net, the local Mountain View Internet Service Provider

City of Los Altos

Jan Pepper, Los Altos City Council Member, currently Mayor Pro Tem
Jarrett Fishpaw, Los Altos City Council Member, former Mayor
Laura Cases Frier, Trustees of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Jim Thurber, former Mayor of Los Altos
Emy Thruber, former Regional Director for California Democratic Party
Doug Smith, Los Altos School Board President
Mark Goines, Los Altos School Board Member
Jerry Clements, Civil Engineer and Flood Prevention Activist
Troy Foster, Community Activist, Chief Legal and Compliance TrueCar; former Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati; resident of North Los Altos

Town of Los Altos Hills

John Radford, Los Altos Hills Mayor and Town Council Member
Gary Waldeck, former Los Altos Hills Mayor and current Town Council Member, former President of Purissima Hills Water District, Commissioner of Los Altos Hills County Fire District
Courtenay Corrigan, Los Altos Hills Town Council Member
Rich Larsen, Los Altos Hills Town Council Member, former Mayor
John Harpootlian, Los Altos Hills Town Council Member
Breene Kerr, former Los Altos Hills Mayor and former Town Council Member
Kavita Tankha, Los Altos Hills Planning Commission
Joan Sherlock, former Board of Committee for Green Foothills, Los Altos Hills Town Planning Commission
Heather Rose, Chairperson Los Altos Hills Education Committee
Bruce Martin, Los Altos Hills Leader
Margot and Vaughan Pratt, Native plant advocate and Stanford Professor Emeritus
Mark Breier, Founder, Los Altos Hills Family
Marc and Cheryl Bader, Los Altos Hills Community Leaders
Kim Cranston, Activist

Town of Los Gatos

Steve Leonardis, current Mayor and Los Gatos Council member
Shahram Javey, Los Gatos resident and founder of US leading leak detection company, Aquacue

Town of Monte Sereno

Walter Huff, Current Monte Sereno City Council Member

Almaden Valley

Rani Yadav-Ranjan, Community Activist, Board UC Merced Foundation
Robert Braunstein, Executive Producer Cal Hi Sports Bay Area; Community Activist; Editor, Blossom and Almaden Valley

San Jose City Council

Sam Liccardo, San Jose City council member and candidate for mayor
Ash Kalra, San Jose council member

City of Campbell

Rich Waterman, Mayor of Campbell
Evan Low, Former Mayor of Campbell, President of Asian Pacific American Municipal Officials
Jeff Cristina, Vice Mayor and Campbell City Council Member
Paul Resnikoff, Chair, Campbell Planning Commission.
City of Cupertino

Gilbert Wong, Mayor of Cupertino and City Council Member
Patrick Kwok, Chairman, Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI); former Mayor and Council member of the City of Cupertino; former Board Member,Santa Clara Valley Water District
Dolly Sandoval; former Mayor of Cupertino and City Council Member; former member of Foothill-DeAnza College Board; education activist
City of Menlo Park

Ray Mueller, Mayor and City Council Member
Purissima Hills Water District

Steve Jordan, Board Member and Past President
Brian Holtz, Board Member and Past President
Robert Anderson, Board Member and Past President
Ernie Solomon, Board Member and Past President
El Camino Hospital Board

Dennis Chiu, El Camino Healthcare District Director; Chair of Sunnyvale Housing & Human Service Commission; former member of Santa Clara County Planning Commissioner
Julia Miller, El Camino Healthcare District and Director El Camino Hospital corporate board; formerly Mayor and Council Member for the City of Sunnyvale. Fomerly member of Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Economic Forum, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Sustainable Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Trail, San Francisco FBI Community Academy Alumni Association
Local Activism

Michael Frost, Restore the Delta
Dan Martin, Sempervirens Fund Past President and Board Member, California Advisory Board Member, Trust for Public Land, Governing Council Member, Northern Sierra Partnership
Charlie Krenz, Board Member, Silicon Valley Mountain Biker, former Board member Los Trancos County Water District
Josh Becker, Founder, Full Circle Fund
Dan Rush, California Democratic Party Executive Board Member
Andy Howse, Founder of Open the SF Watershed
Jennifer Loving, Activist
Water Conservation

Peter Yolles, Founder of WaterSmart Software, the leading water conservation company in the US. They produce the Home Water Reports in Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Susan Leal, Author of "Running out of Water." Formerly, she was the General Manager of the SFPUC (from which Palo Alto, 90% of Mountain View, Stanford of Los Altos Hills receives its water), City of San Francisco Treasurer and a San Francisco Supervisor.
Other Local Elected Officials

Buu Thai, President, Franklin McKinley School Board
Frank Biehl, Trustee, East Side Union High School District

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