SAME PAGE/MISMA PAGINA COALITION
San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles NOW (SFV-NELA NOW), California League of Latinos And Chicanos (CALLAC), Miss Revolutionaries, Bring Hollywood Home Foundation (BHHF), United For Education Coalition (UFE), L.A. Progressive, California Leadership Institute (CLI), Todos Unidos (TU)
Brad Sherman with Same Page Coalition members
Endorsements by the SPC are considered important prizes in Los Angeles area elections. During the 2012 election cycle, both of SPC’s endorsees, Representative Brad Sherman and long-shot Steve Fox went on to win their races. Running 10% ahead in the polls, Sherman sent a last minute mailing to every Democratic and Independent registered woman in his district touting the SFV/NELA NOW endorsement and went on to beat his opponent, Rep. Howard Berman, by an astounding 20 points on election night. During the 2013 Los Angeles Municipal elections, all four of the major Mayoral candidates sought and were interviewed by SPC for endorsement. In the runoff, with the exception of SFV/NELA NOW which made a triple endorsement in the primary which became a runoff dual endorsement, all other SPC endorsing groups endorsed Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti for the runoff.
Jan B. Tucker & Cindy Montanez
A 2006 professional poll commissioned by then-Assembly member Cindy Montanez demonstrated that amongst San Fernando Valley endorsing organizations, the voters considered the SFV/NELA NOW endorsement to have the highest integrity. SPC attributes the credibility of their endorsements to their strict non-partisanship (member organizations have made past endorsements of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, and Peace & Freedom Party candidates) and conflict of interest policies to insure that interested individuals cannot participate or must limit participation in specific races, even based upon a mere appearance of impropriety.
SPC recognizes that our joint candidate questionnaire is one of the most difficult in California because it is completely subjective and cannot be “scored.” Some candidates bristle at having to answer questions that have nothing to do with the office they are running for. This is because in the era of “term limits” politicians play musical chairs with greater frequency. You may be running for dog-catcher today and state legislature two years from now. We do not want to help your career if you are diametrically opposed to our positions on critical issues.
In addition to your questionnaire response we request that you provide us with a copy of your most recently filed FPPC Form 700 Statement of Economic Interests or any equivalent federal filing.
Additionally, SPC will chart your progress in office to “hold incumbents’ feet to the fire” by comparing the promises and representations they made during the endorsement process to your performance in office. SPC will seek periodic face to face meetings with those elected to review their efforts to implement their promises and to help build public support for the reforms they have demanded and we expect you to pledge yourself to such periodic review following the election.
Joint Candidate Interview Committee of the Same Page/Misma Pagina Coalition 2016-17 Candidate Questionnaire
For candidate convenience, the Same Page/Misma Pagina Coalition will jointly consider candidates’ questionnaires and jointly interview candidates. SFV/NELA NOW, Bring Hollywood Home Foundation, Miss Revolutionaries, UFE and CALLAC will make their own independent endorsements; CLI and Todos Unidos do not endorse as 501(c)(3) non-profits, and L.A. Progressive likewise does not endorse, but participate for purposes of political education, for the public. The process begins with your submission of responses to the questionnaire which you can download from: http://janbtucker.com/resources
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