Cari Templeton
Palo Alto Planning Commissioner
Activism focus: Women's Rights, Healthcare Reform, Gender & Racial Equity
Candidate Statement
Hello, Democrats! I’m Cari Templeton, and I would love to continue serving you as a delegate for AD-24. 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 and 2020, including campaigns: 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 and 2020. 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.ad24.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!
Our Revolution
Progressive Delegates Network
Peninsula for Everyone
Roots Action
Hon. Anna Eshoo, Congresswoman (CA-18)
Hon. Ro Khanna, Congressman (CA-17)
Hon. Liz Kniss, former Palo Alto Mayor & former Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors' President
Hon. Adrian Fine, former Palo Alto Mayor
Hon. Sally Lieber, Mountain View Council Member
Hon. Alison Cormack, Palo Alto Council Member
Hon. Cory Wolbach, former Council Member
Hon. Gail Price, former Palo Alto City Council Member & former Palo Alto Unified School District Board Member
Hon. Melissa Baten Caswell, former PAUSD School Board President
Hon. Giselle Hale, Redwood City Vice Mayor
Hon. Lenny Siegel, former Mountain View Mayor
Hon. Antonio Lopez, East Palo Alto Council Member
Hon. Alysa Cisneros, Sunnyvale Council Member
Hon. Omar Din, Sunnyvale Council Member
Hon. Tara Martin-Milius, former Sunnyvale Vice Mayor
Hon. Essy Stone, Purissima Hills Water District Director
Debbie Mytels, Environmental Educator
Mike Serrone, Sunnyvale Democratic Club President
Linda Sell, Sunnyvale Democratic Club VP
Richard Mehlinger, Sunnyvale Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission Chair
Dr. Meghan Fraley, Activist
Raven Malone, Activist
Dr. Forest Peterson, Activist
Steve Chessin, Activist
Kevin Ma, Activist
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