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This list of candidates has been compiled through the efforts of members of the California Super-Progressive Anti-Corporate Political Activists Facebook group, a coalition of Bernie delegates and super-volunteers, progressive members of the California Democratic Party and Green Party activists. While there may be other corporate-free, progressive candidates running for office, these are the candidates that have received the most support.
June 2018 ElectionGovernor: Delaine Eastin (D) State AssemblyAD 3 Sonia Aery (D) CDP State SenateSD 4 Phillip Kim (D) US SenatePat Harris (D) or David Hilderbrand (D) US CongressCD 1 Audrey Denney (D) JD Local OfficesAlameda County District Attorney: Pamela Price OR Humboldt County Supervisor District 1: Dani Burkhart Nevada County Supervisor District 3: Hilary Hodge Sacramento County Sheriff: Milo Fitch OR San Diego County District Attorney: Geneviéve Jones-Wright Chula Vista City Council District 1: Mark Bartlet San Diego City Council District 4: Monica Montgomery San Francisco Mayor: Jane Kim OR San Joaquin County Supervisor District 2: Motecuzoma Sanchez – Bernie delegate (i) = incumbent CDP = Endorsed by the California Democratic Party (D) = Democrat Note: Inclusion on this list does not imply my support or the support of any individual member of the FB group. Members of the California Democratic Party are prohibited from expressing support or preference for candidates for state or national office not registered Democrat, and no such support should be implied. This list is NOT final, names may be added or removed as more information becomes available. We consider a candidate corporate-free if he does not take contributions from large businesses and corporations (those with over 25 employees). 1Dave Jones is not running a completely corporate free campaign. However, we are supporting him because he opposes the death penalty and is committed to ending mass incarceration in California. For recommendations on other statewide races and in Alameda County, check out the San Leandro Talk Voting Guide. |
Hi Margarita,
Please put a “D” by my name. I am a registered Democrat.
Done
Correction:
Peter Choi is running in SD24 (not 16).
His website is http://www.ChoiForStateSenate.com
Change made
Thanks for the information and your tireless efforts on behalf of Progressives.
Hi Margarita,
Thanks for including me. My website is soniaforassembly.com if you wouldn’t mind adding the link. Thanks!
– Sonia Aery
Lewis Elbinger, a member of the Green Party and running for CA CD1 does not take corporate money donations.
Is there a reason that Marty Walters, a Democrat also running for CA CD1 is not on this list?
I would think it depends on how one defines “Progressive”. It is more than just not taking corporate cash. I would think Marty’s stance on the 2nd amendment and school shootings plays a big part. Some may say that is similar to LaMalfa’s position. Putting rapid fire assault weapons over children’s lives is something I would NOT consider “Progressive”. A progressive candidate should state very clearly that rapid-fire military assault weapons should be banned. Marty is also very weak on Medi-care For ALL.
This is how candidates were chosen according-from intro of article at top of page:
“While there may be other corporate-free, progressive candidates running for office, these are the candidates that have received the most support.”
Kyle Thayer for Tri city healthcare board of directors!
Hi, please visit my website: https://politicalpull.com/ Would love to chat and see how we can support each other.
Ruben Major is the progressive, non-corporate Secretary of State candidate of choice for Our Revolution Long Beach, San Diego Progressive Democratic Club, Marin County Young Democrats, Democracy for America, and North County San Diego Progressive Democrats, among others. Can you please add him to this list?
After a vote by members of the group, Ruben Major has been added.
Marty Walter CD1 is also a grassroots candidate who is not taking corporate money. She is a Democrat.
http://www.martywalters.com/
1. I was an elected Sanders Delegate.
2. Headshot?
1 – Did you go to Philly? I don’t remember you, though there were lots of us there. There are other candidates in this list who were either elected or appointed as delegates but didn’t end up going. I am open to noting that in the list (perhaps as “elected Bernie delegate” or “appointed Bernie delegate”) if I learn about it. I’m also open to note that a candidate was a “Bernie supervolunteer” if I get confirmation of this status.
2- There isn’t enough room as the page currently displays on my desktop to include photos of all candidates, so I made a totally arbitrary selection of candidates based on those who I personally know (save for a couple). I’ll try to figure out how to switch photos in the future. If anyone knows how I can automate it, e-mail me.
Where is information for the 26th Congressional District? For example, http://www.john4congress.com/about_john?
honestly, he had not appeared in our radar
Thank you for this important information!
Brian Forde, CA45 is not corporate-free. Big tech LOVES him. Netflix etc. http://votersedge.kpcc.org/ca/en/ballot/election/69-8d8c26/address/null/zip/92780/contests/contest/16627/candidate/138074?date=2018-06-05
We have removed Brian Forde from this list after learning he was a registered Republican until recently.
The contributions you noted, however, are not from corporations but from individuals working for those corporations. Corporations can only contribute to federal candidates through business PACs, and Forde does not show any such contributions.
Not seeing:
Michael Feinstein for Sec of State
Or
Alison Hartson for US Senate.
Are they not corporate free?
No, as we mentioned on the top, this is not an exclusive list of /all/ the corporate-free candidates, but rather of the candidates that the members of the California Super-Progressives FB group – most of whom are very active political activists – consider the best of the bunch.
We had a poll for Secretary of State and US Senate and the recommendations are based on the poll’s results.
Please consider retitling this post. It is being shared in places on Facebook, and most people won’t read the fine print about this not being “*the* Progressive Corporate-Free Candidates” after all. I know this is not your intention, but presenting it as an easy way to learn who is corporate-free in CA is unfair and misleading.
Well, they are the progressive corporate-free candidates we recommend. And it says so explicitly at the top, before we list names. I think it’s pretty obvious to anyone reading that they are not the only progressive corporate-free candidates as otherwise we’d be including many more.
Allison Hartson (https://www.alisonhartson.com) is the Justice Democrat running for Senator. She most definitely belongs on this list of progressive candidates.
https://youtu.be/VLQLJceH_30?t=44s
Most definitely!!!!!
Aye! Alison Hartson rocks!
Yes, Alison Hartson is corporate free. She’s the best contender against Feinstein, IMO. To not mention her is ludicrous.
Isn’t Audrey Denny (for US Congress) endorsed by Our Revolution? If not, she should be!
She is endorsed by OR Chico but not by OR National. Only 11 out of dozens of berniecrat candidates have been endorsed by the national. It’s a tough endorsement to get.
I am running in Congressional District 12 (vs. Nancy Pelosi) and am committed to accepting no corporate money or large contributions. See “Contribution Rules” at the bottom of my website’s donations page: https://www.takingtheredpill.org/donate Thanks!
Where’s Alison Hartson?!?
As mentioned above, we had a poll in the group about which corporate-free Senate candidates to include. The consensus of the group, which is made of very involved political activists, was to include Pat Harris and David Hilderbrand but not Alison Hartson.
I’m sure every member had their reason for voting how they did, but in general I can tell you there are worries within the movement that Alison is not actually progressive on issues beyond money in politics, and she has not attended events she said she would, where she could be questioned closely about her economic and social justice views.
There have also been concerns about other issues related to her her campaign.
What are “the concerns”? Out with it.
I’ll be happy to discuss them with you privately if you e-mail me at margalacabe@gmail.com or message me on Facebook (Margarita Lacabe). But even though Alison Hartson is not my choice, I see no reason to publicly disparage a corporate-free candidate when we have far bigger issues to fight against.
Here’s a list of the CA progressive candidates running under Justice Democrats. All of them are “corporate free.” Also, be sure to do more of your own research because there are plenty of unknown progressives running in CA.
CA PROGRESSIVES
Audrey Denney, District 1
https://www.audreyforcongress.com
Roza Calderon, District 4
https://www.electroza.org
Ro Khanna, District 17
http://www.rokhanna.com
Bryan Caforio, District 25
https://www.bryancaforio.com
Doug Applegate, District 49
http://www.applegateforcongress.com
Ammar Campa-Najjar, District 50
https://www.campacampaign.com
Alison Hartson, for US Senate of CA
https://www.campacampaign.com
And here are candidates endorsed by Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution (https://ourrevolution.com/candidates):
Jovanka Beckles, Assembly District 15
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/jovanka-beckles
Ankur Patel, Assembly District 45
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/ankur-patel
Pamela Price, District Attorney, Alameda County
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/pamela-price
Noah Phillips, District Attorney, Sacramento County
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/noah-phillips
Gayle McLaughlin, Lieutenant Governor
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/gayle-mclaughlin/
Jane Kim, Mayor, San Francisco
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/jane-kim-2018
Cesar Armendariz, School Board, District 3
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/cesar-armendariz
Milo Fitch, Sheriff, Sacramento County
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/milo-fitch
James Elia, State Representative, District 71
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/james-elia
Andy Thorburn, House Representative, District 39
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/andy-thorburn
Ammar Campa-Najjar, House Representative, District 50
(See Justice Democrats list in the comment above.)
https://ourrevolution.com/candidates/ammar-campa-najjar
Thank you, Tom, for a more appropriate listing of actually progressive candidates (I can’t believe some group of so-called progressive activists would take issue with Alison Hartson as not being progressive enough… obviously said activists aren’t fully in the loop when it comes to where to get the honest truth in news).
Well, the members of the group are mostly very engaged political activists. This means they don’t only get their information from the media, but directly from the candidates, their campaigns and, in the case of Alison, from people who have worked with her in the past and even helped write her platform. Basically, there is a lot of inside knowledge that helps make these decisions.
Jason Kishineff, House of Representatives candidate for district 5 in CA has been endorsed by Our Revolution Lake County and Our Revolution North Bay.
And to the operator of this website, please take a moment to read the policy platform of Justice Democrats here https://www.justicedemocrats.com/platform
They are NOT just about getting money out of politics, they in fact have by far the most progressive stances of any progressive leaning groups out there. Please read the page I linked above (share it with your group) then reconsider adding Alison Hartson and possibly Ro Khana to this page. Justice Democrats does not accept affiliation with any candidates who do not agree to every policy stance laid out on that page.
Whatever platform Justice Democrats claims to have, it does not mean that it’s shared by Alison – who in the past expressed doubts about single payer and appeared to endorse tickle-down economics – or that Aison has the values that progressives actually espouse. One of those values is transparency – Alison has now twice cancelled appearances with one of our local OR chapters where we were hoping to prove her views closely, increasing suspicion about her.
As for Justice Democrats, it is very concerning that they endorsed Bryan Caforio, who is the establishment candidate in the CD 25 race, instead of the progressive firebrand AND Berniecrat Jess Phoenix. Caforio did not support Sanders and had nothing but praise for Hillary Clinton. Caforio, meanwhile, has been waging a nasty negative campaign. So I’d take with a grain of salt JD’s recommendations.
As I already stated, being a Justice Democrat DOES in fact mean the candidate strictly agrees with and adheres to the entire plarform as laid out on the website… Justice Democrats will not endorse any candidate who doesn’t 100% agree to pledge themselves to every single issue cited in their platform. And just when did Alison express these views against single payer health care or trickle down economics? This year is her first time running for any office and she’s been pro single payer and anti-corporate from the start if this campaign so I don’t know where you could be getting this kind of misleading information from.
As to her missing some local events well she is currently the national director of wolf-pac and travels back and forth all across the country constantly in response to various states’ judicial scheduling so perhaps she orher more pressing obligations to the benefit of this country at the time than her own political career objectives.
Thanks. Great choices. Like many have said, Alison Hartson for Senate.