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!

Candidates form L-R: Cari Templeton, Dr. Forest Peterson, Steve Chessin, Dr. Jennifer DiBrienza, Dr. Meghan Fraley, Juan Rodriguez, Ben Spielberg,
Maryann Moise Derwin, Aisha Baro, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Alex Nuñez, Erik Poicon, Anna Marie Morales, Robby Bancroft
Hon. Anna Eshoo, United States Congresswoman
Hon. Josh Becker, California State Senator
Julie Lythcott-Haims, Author & Palo Alto Council Member-elect
Hon. Tara Sreekrishnan, Vice President of the Santa Clara County Board of Education
Hon. Maryann Moise Derwin, Past Portola Valley Mayor
Hon. Lucas Ramirez, Mountain View Mayor
Hon. Sally Lieber, Board of Equalization
Hon. Dr. Jennifer DiBrienza, Palo Alto USD President
Linda Sell, Sunnyvale Council Member-elect

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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