2016 Endorsements

Sierra Club California's tax exemption status - 501(c)(4) - allows us to make endorsements for candidates and ballot measures. Below you will find our 2016 endorsements for state legislative offices (Assembly and Senate) and ballot measures in California for the June ballot. Please check back here for frequent updates.

(For Sierra Club California's 2014 Endorsements, click here.)

For Sierra Club endorsements of local candidates or measures, please check your local chapter's website. You can find a link to your local chapter's website here.

For Sierra Club's endorsements for federal offices, including the House of Representatives, click here.

Won: U.S. Senate Endorsement: Kamala Harris

Assembly Endorsements:

Result	District	Candidate		Main City	Chapter
Won	AD 2	Jim Wood		Santa Rosa	Redwood
Won	AD 7	Kevin McCarty		Sacramento	Mother Lode
Won	AD 10	Marc Levine		Marin/Sonoma	Redwood
Won	AD 13	Susan Talamantes Eggman		Stockton	Mother Lode
Lost	AD 14	Mae Cendañas Torlakson		Concord/Vallejo	SF Bay & Redwood
Won	AD 15	Tony Thurmond		Richmond/Berkeley	SF Bay
Won	AD 17	David Chiu		San Francisco	SF Bay
Won	AD 18	Rob Bonta		Oakland/Alameda	SF Bay
Won	AD 19	Phil Ting		San Francisco/Daly City	SF Bay
Won	AD 22	Kevin Mullin		San Mateo	Loma Prieta
Lost	AD 24	Vicki Veenker		Palo Alto/Mountain View	Loma Prieta
Won	AD 25	Kansen Chu		Fremont/San Jose	Loma Prieta
Won	AD 27	Ash Kalra		San Jose	Loma Prieta
Won	AD 29	Mark Stone		Monterey	Ventana
Lost	AD 30	Karina Cervantez Alejo		Salinas	Ventana
Won	AD 37	Monique Limón		Santa Barbara	Los Padres
Lost	AD 38	Christy Smith		Santa Clarita Valley	Angeles
Lost	AD 39	Patty López		San Fernando	Angeles
Lost	AD 40	Abigail Medina		Rancho Cucamonga/San Bernardino	San Gorgonio
Lost	AD 42	Greg Rodriguez		Hemet	San Gorgonio
Won	AD 43	Laura Friedman		Burbank	Angeles
Won	AD 44	Jacqui Irwin		Oxnard	Los Padres
Won	AD 46	Adrin Nazarian		Van Nuys	Angeles
Won	AD 47	Eloise Reyes		San Bernardino	San Gorgonio
	AD 48	Bryan Urias	Lost in Primary	West Covina	Angeles
Won	AD 49	Ed Chau		San Gabriel	Angeles
Won	AD 50	Richard Bloom		Agoura Hills/Hollywood	Angeles
Won	AD 51	Jimmy Gomez		East Los Angeles	Angeles
Won	AD 53	Miguel Santiago		Huntington Park	Angeles
Won	AD 56	Eduardo Garcia		Coachella	San Gorgonio
Won	AD 59	Reginald Jones-Sawyer Sr.		Los Angeles	Angeles
Won	AD 60	Sabrina Cervantes		Corona	San Gorgonio
Won	AD 62	Autumn Burke		Inglewood/Hawthorne	Angeles
Won	AD 63	Anthony Rendon		South Gate	Angeles
Won	AD 65	Sharon Quirk-Silva		Fullerton	Angeles
Won	AD 66	Al Muratsuchi		Torrance	Angeles

State Senate Endorsements:

Result	District	Candidate	Main City	Chapter
Won	SD 9	Nancy Skinner	Richmond/Oakland	SF Bay
Lost	SD 11	Jane Kim	San Francisco	SFBay
Won	SD 13	Jerry Hill	San Mateo	Loma Prieta
Won	SD 15	Jim Beall	San Jose	Loma Prieta
Won	SD 17	Bill Monning	Monterey/San Luis Obispo	Ventana
Won	SD 19	Hannah-Beth Jackson	Santa Barbara	Los Padres
Lost	SD 21	Johnathon Ervin	Lancaster/Palmdale	Angeles
Won	SD 25	Anthony Portantino	Glendale/Pasadena	Angeles
Won	SD 27	Henry Stern	Los Angeles	Angeles
Won	SD 29	Josh Newman	Fullerton	Angeles
Won	SD 33	Ricardo Lara	Long Beach	Angeles
Lost	SD 37	Ari Grayson	Irvine	Angeles
Won	SD 39	Toni Atkins	San Diego	San Diego

Ballot Measures:

Result	Measure	Summary	Sierra Club CA Recommends:
Won	Prop. 67—Referendum to Overturn Ban on Single-Use Plastic Bags	Asks the question: Do voters wish to keep the statewide plastic bag ban (SB 270) signed into law in 2014? A “yes” on this measure is a yes to a clean environment and an end to single-use grocery bags that pollute waterways, harm wildlife, and create a long-lasting litter problem. A “yes” will say no to big out-of-state plastic manufacturers who put this measure on the ballot to try to stop enforcement of the statewide ban. For the website for the yes campaign, California vs. Big Plastic, click here.	YES
Won	Prop. 56—Cigarette Tax to Fund Healthcare, Tobacco Use Prevention, Research, and Law Enforcement	Would increase the sales tax on cigarettes by $2 per pack, and e-cigarettes would be taxed on an equivalent level. The tobacco tax has not been raised since 1998. Sierra Club has long supported reducing public exposure to air pollution, including pollution from cigarettes, and has supported cigarette taxes as a tool for smoking reduction. Cigarette taxes help increase the cost of smoking, discourage smoking and fund anti-smoking education. For the full text of the measure, click here. For a link to the campaign to pass the tax, click here.	YES
Won	Prop 58—California EdGE Initiative	Would overturn restrictions on bilingual education that were imposed in 1998 by Proposition 227. The California EdGE Initiative allows every student in California the chance to get the most appropriate language instruction and, therefore, become engaged residents who can effectively speak out for the environment and public health. For the full text of the initiative, click here.	YES
Won	Prop 59—Advisory Resolution to Ask for Overturn of the Citizens United Supreme Court Decision	Would direct California elected officials to use their authority to help overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. This authority could include ratifying a federal constitutional amendment to overturn the ruling. That ruling established that corporations are “citizens”, essentially have the same rights as human beings, and therefore may spend without constraint to influence elections. This decision has led to the increased—and increasing—spending by oil companies and other polluting entities to influence legislative and local elections.	YES