Cari Templeton
Democratic Activist, Community Leader, and Palo Alto Planning Commissioner
Activism focus: Healthcare Reform, Environment & Climate Change, Housing
Ballot Position: #1
Candidate Statement
Hello, Democrats! I’m Cari Templeton, and I'm a North Star Progressive Democrat candidate. I would love to continue serving you as a delegate for AD-23. I am an activist, parent, and public servant in Palo Alto. I am proud to represent our district since 2017 by promoting Progressive values at the local, county, state, and national levels, and with your support I look forward to the opportunity to continue.
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I am actively involved in our movement to encourage progressive change in our party, to elevate the voices of all members of our community by increasing local participation in the Democratic Party. To that end, I worked for and volunteered on many campaigns in 2018, 2020, and 2022, including campaigns: to implement a business tax and energy transfer tax in Palo Alto to provide transit and affordable housing funds, to save renter protections in Mountain View; to endorse progressive candidates for local office in the Santa Clara County Democratic Party; to promote pro-choice, pro-labor Democratic women to the state legislature; to reform healthcare in California; to register new voters including young and unhoused; and to lead canvassing for Bernie Sanders in Mountain View during the 2020 primary.
As a former board member of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party and as an Emerge California graduate, I helped elect progressives and women of color locally and statewide, volunteering on 30+ campaigns in 2018, 2020, and 2022. As a 2020 DNC Delegate for Bernie Sanders, I lobbied for the Green New Deal and Medicare for All at the national convention. We have come so far, and still have a long way to go. Let’s work to keep California leading the progressive charge for healthcare, for our environment, and for all our people!
I humbly ask for your vote. Thank you!
I am proudly running alongside many progressive grassroots leaders. Learn more at https://www.ad23.vote/
PLATFORM & PRIORITIES
Medicare for All
Housing for All
Green New Deal
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Abolish ICE
Protect Women’s Rights
Living Wage & Worker’s Rights
Clean Air and Water
Invest in Our Communities
Criminal Justice Reform
Tuition Free Public University
Ending Gun Violence
Campaign Finance Reform
Human rights and equal rights for all marginalized people
Equity for women, people of color, and LGBTQ
We proudly ENDORSE Cari Templeton for ADEM!
ELECTED OFFICIALS
Hon. Anna Eshoo, United States Congresswoman
Hon. Ro Khanna, United States Congressman
Hon. Sally Lieber, Board of Equalization
Hon. Josh Becker, California State Senator
Hon. Maryann Moise Derwin, Past Portola Valley Mayor
Hon. Dr. Jennifer DiBrienza, Palo Alto USD President
Hon. Julie Lythcott-Haims, Author & Palo Alto Council Member
Hon. Lucas Ramirez, Mountain View Mayor
Hon. Linda Sell, Sunnyvale Council Member
Hon. Tara Sreekrishnan, Vice President of the Santa Clara County Board of Education
ORGANIZATIONS
Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA!)
Silicon Valley Working Blue
Silicon Valley Young Democrats
YIMBY Action
COMMUNITY LEADERS
Katie Causey
Linda Henigin
Nancy Krop
Olivia Navarro
Lynne Russell
Igor Tregub, CADEM Environmental Caucus Chair
Mullissa Willette
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