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NOVEMBER 6, 2018 General Election. Items on this page are on most everyone’s ballot- listing only Justice, District 6, CA State Court of Appeals - the Democrats below unless indicated otherwise vote yes or no for each Allison Marston Danner - Democrat appointed by Senator, US Senate Nathan Mihara - Republican Kevin De Leon - endorsed by the Demo- Mary Greenwood - appointed by Jerry Brown cratic Party with 65% of the vote

Governor, State of California Justice, CA Supreme Court - vote yes or no for each - appointed by Jerry Brown Lieutenant Governor, State of California - Republican - opposes same sex Ed Hernandez marriage (neither reached the 60% threshold to receive en- Santa Clara County Sheriff dorsement by the CA Democratic Party) John Hirokawa

Secretary of State Statewide ballot propositions (CA Democratic Par- ty says Yes on bolded, NO on italicized:

Controller 1 - Housing bond - Yes 2 - Mental Health Housing bond - Yes 3 - Water bond - No, this is a “pay-to-play” pork Treasurer barrel with inadequate oversight and other prob- lems. Opposed by League of Women Voters CA and Sierra Club Attorney General 4 - Hospital bond - Yes (LWV CA says vote NO) Xavier Becerra 5 - Property Tax Break - No, will cost the state $1B a year and exacerbate economic inequality Insurance Commissioner 6 - Gas Tax Repeal - No 7 - Daylight Savings - Yes 8 - Kidney Dialysis - Yes Superintendent of Public Instruction 9 - Three - Not on Ballot, Removed by - endorsed by CA Dem Party Court order Marshall Tuck is a big charter school supporter 10 - Rent Control - Yes allows local communities to respond to the housing crisis in ways that are appro- District 2 CA Board of Equalization priate for each of them Malia Cohen 11 - On Call Ambulance Workers - No, would effec- tively void pending labor-related lawsuits against District 24 CA State Assembly American Medical Response, which also happens to Marc Berman be the funder of Prop. 11. 12 - Farm Animal Cage Size - Yes

San Mateo County - see County Democratic Party Board Member, Ward 5 — Midpeninsula Regional endorsements Open Space District - vote for 1 http://www.smcdems.org/2018novend Karen Holman - endorsed by San Mateo County Democratic Party, Sierra Club US Congress District 18 Greg Scharff Anna Eshoo City of Mountain View council - vote for 3 Santa Clara County Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Measure A 1/8 cent sales tax - endorsed by Santa Lucas Ramirez, Pat Showalter, Ellen Kamei, but Clara County Democratic Party Lenny Siegel and Alison Hicks are also Democrats. Bayshore Progressive Democrats endorses Lenny City of Palo Alto council - vote for 3 Siegel and Lucas Ramirez. This will be the first election in which Palo Alto resi- dents will be electing candidates to a seven-member El Camino Healthcare District - vote for 2 council. In 2014, voters approved Measure D, which Mike Kasperzak reduced the number of seats from nine to seven. (the rest are all Republicans) Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Peter Fung, current board chair, is doing a good job, Cory Wolbach, Alison Cormack but all 5 candidates according to board member Julia Miller are registered Democrats: others are Eric Filseth, George Ting is a doctor and very familiar with the Tom DuBois, Pat Boone hospital

City of Palo Alto School Board - vote for 2 Board member - Mountain View Whisman School Ken Dauber current president District - vote for 2 Stacey Ashlund Special-education parent/advocate Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Shounak Dharap Attorney & PAUSD graduate Devon Conley & Ellen Wheeler Kathy Jordan Parent Also registered as Dems are Greg Coladonato and Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Tamara Becher Patterson Stacey Ashlund, Ken Dauber, Shounak Dharap Mountain View - Los Altos Union High School City of Palo Alto measures District - vote for 3 Measure E: Palo Alto Hotel Tax Increase--from 14 Santa Clara County Dem Party endorsed Fiona percent to 15.5 percent to fund general municipal Walter. Debbie Torok and Catherine Vonnegut are purposes. decline-to-state. Steven E. Nelson is a Republican

Measure F: Palo Alto Healthcare Cost Regulations City of Mountain View Limit healthcare charges to 115 percent of the “costs Measure P - expanding a business license tax of direct patient care” by requiring healthcare pro- Measure Q - imposing a cannibis tax viders to supply rebates or cost reductions to those who pay for or are financially responsible for patient Los Altos City Council - vote for 2 services when the predetermined cost is exceeded. Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Jean Mordo, Neysa Fligor Measure Y: Palo Alto Unified School District Board Term Limits. Limit Palo Alto Unified School District Los Altos Hills Town Council - vote for 2 board members to two consecutive terms in office. Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed George Tyson, Kavita Tankha Measure Z: Palo Alto Unified School District Bond Issue - Endorsed by Santa Clara County Dem Party. City of Los Altos measures Authorize the district to issue up to $460 million Measure C - amend general plan to require voter in bonds at an estimated tax rate of $39.40 per approval of the sale, lease or certain changes in use $100,000 in assessed property value to fund up- of certain land designated as “Parks”, “Other Open grades to facilities, equipment, and safety features. Space” or “Public and Institutional”. Opposed by LWV of Los Altos and Mountain View; Los Altos City of Sunnyvale measures School District; Santa Clara County League of Con- Measure K - increase hotel tax from 10.5% to 12.5% servation Voters; Los Altos Chamber of Commerce Measure L - allow the City Council to decide wheth- and 11 former Los Altos mayors. er to fill a City Council vacancy by calling a special election, or by making an appointment Measure D - increase hotel tax from 11% to 14%

Los Altos Union School District - vote for 3 Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Santa Clara County Democratic Party has endorsed these local school bond measures in Sunnyvale/ Vladimir Ivanovic, Bryan Johnson, Vaishali Sirkay Santa Clara/Cupertino area

US Congress District 17 • Measure W (West Valley-Mission Community Ro Khanna College) School Bond — YES • Measure CC (Fremont Union High School Dis- City of Sunnyvale City Council - Santa Clara Coun- trict) School Bond — YES ty Democratic Party has endorsed Gustav Larsson, • Measure GG (Sunnyvale School District) School Josh Grossman, dual endorsed John Cordes and Bond — YES Mason Fong.

City of Sunnyvale - seat 1 Cupertino City Council - vote for 3 Gustav Larsson Santa Clara County Democratic Party endorsed Tara Henry Alexander II - opposes rent control Sreekrishnan, Savita Vaidhyanathan, Darcy Paul. Tara and Darcy are “slow growth” candidates. City of Sunnyvale - seat 2 Josh Grossman - strongly anti-growth Cupertino Union School District - vote for 3 (incumbent is the moderate Republican mayor Lori Cunningham and Jerry Liu are endorsed by Glenn Hendricks, supported by many Democrats) Santa Clara County Democratic Party

City of Sunnyvale - seat 3 Santa Clara County Board of Education - vote for John Cordes 1 Mason Fong - opposes rent control Kathleen King - endorsed by Santa Clara County Democratic Party Barry Chang Fremont Union High School District - Vote for 3 Naomi Nakano-Matsumoto and Bill Wilson were Board Member, Ward 1 — Midpeninsula Regional endorsed by Santa Clara County Democratic Party. Open Space District None of the other candidates appear to be Demo- Pete Siemens “a hard working guy who cares a lot crats about district”. Opponent is decline-to-state

Santa Clara Unified School District, Trustee Area 2 - Vote for 2 Where to gain additional insight into Jodi Muirhead - endorsed by Santa Clara County G the candidates beyond what’s on paper Democratic Party and Sunnyvale Democratic Club or in print: search online for candidate Vickie Fairchild - endorsed by Santa Clara County Democratic Party forums by the various local League of Women Voter chapters. If a forum has Sunnyvale School District - vote for 3 already taken place, a video recording Bridget Watson - endorsed by Sunnyvale Dem Club of it is generally posted online. Anita Herrmann - long time incumbent Jeff Arnett - endorsed by Sunnyvale Dem Club