Endorsements

We are the Sacramento hub of Sunrise, a national movement of young people! While as a national movement we focus on winning a Green New Deal, we imagine what that means for us in a local context in Sacramento. Part of our theory of change is winning local elections to reshape our political environment and make it possible to pass transformative climate policies. With this context, we engage in local elections as part of our work.

How We Make Endorsements

Review the steps of our: Endorsement Process

Current endorsement process:

2024 Election

We are considering endorsement for candidates in the 2024 election.

Interested candidates may complete our candidate questionnaire: https://forms.gle/SKYpD2ZJRis1KVSQ7

All questions in this questionnaire have been compiled into this document for easy access: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zkry38pKSA8wFbqH8RgUquCx5ZmVpiiMX5jZJOSa2LM/edit?usp=sharing

For 2024 our endorsed candidates so far were selected prior to the primary election. Check out recordings of our candidate interviews for this election cycle: here.

We endorsed:

Katie Valenzuela for Sacramento City Council District 4
Dr. Flojaune Cofer for Sacramento City Mayor

Endorsement history:

2022 Election

In 2022 our endorsed candidates were selected prior to the primary election. Check out recordings of our candidate interviews for this election cycle: here. They all made it through to the general election (or did not have a primary race). The underlined campaigns were successful in the general election.

We endorsed:

Caity Maple for Sacramento City Council District 5
Karina Talamantes for Sacramento City Council District 3
Dave Jones for CA State Senate District 8
Zima Creason for San Juan Unified School District Board of Education
For Sacramento County we oppose local ballot Measure A
For the City of Sacramento we oppose local ballot Measure O

2021 Assembly District Election Meeting (ADEM) - CA Democratic Party

We endorsed Regina Banks for Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County

Note, we did not make individual delegate candidate endorsements. Instead we endorsed the following delegate slates:

Assembly District 6
- - Ann Bowler, Evan Minton, Jasmine Partida, John Shaban, Victor Monjaras, Susan Gutowsky (Executive Board), Gladys Deloney, Michelle Sutherland, Larry Hufty, JaRita Booker-Pichon, Em Ward, Casey Mills, Michelle Wright, David Brame
Assembly District 7
- - Katie Valenzuela (E-Board), Tamika L'Ecluse, Norma Alcala, Shirley Toy, Nailah Pope-Harden, Claire White, Chelsea Kelly-Reif, Danny Thirakul, Cesar Aguirre, Jasjit Singh, Mo Kashmiri, Scott A. Hill, Manuel Buenrostro, Ian Lee
Assembly District 9
- - Amar Shergill, Regina Q. Banks, Yassar Dahbour, Winty Singh, Cha Vang, Monica Madrid, Amandeep Singh, Moody Zahriya, Ida M. Jones, Karen Jackson, Ales Lee

2020 General Election

Check out recordings of our candidate interviews for this election cycle: here.

We endorsed:

Mai Vang for Sacramento City Council District 8
Tamika L'Ecluse for American River Flood Control District
Regina Banks for Elk Grove Unified School District, Area 1
Sacramento Measure C, and we oppose Measure A
CA Propositions 15 and 21, and we oppose Proposition 22

2020 Primary Election

We endorsed Katie Valenzuela for Sacramento City Council District 4