November 2024 Endorsements
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Local Candidates and Ballot Measures
- Alameda County Board of Supervisors: Nikki Fortunato Bas
- Berkeley Mayor: Kate Harrison
- Berkeley City Council District 2: Jenny Guarino
- Berkeley City Council District 3
- John Chip Moore (#1)
- Ben Bartlett (#2 – recommended but not endorsed)
- Berkeley Rent Board: Right to Housing Slate (Alfred Twu, Avery Arbaugh, Dominique Walker, and Xavier Johnson)
- NO to recalling District Attorney Pamela Price
- YES on Berkeley Measure W (Fund homeless services)
- YES on Berkeley Measure Z (Soda tax)
- YES on Berkeley Measure AA (Allow Berkeley to spend money voters have already approved)
- YES on Berkeley Measure BB (Tenant Protection & Right to Organize Act)
- NO on Berkeley Measure CC (Gut rent control ordinance and divert housing retention funds to a landlord slush fund)
- YES on Berkeley Measure GG (Tax large buildings’ greenhouse gas emissions to fund building decarbonization retrofits using union labor)
- YES on Berkeley Measure HH (Set minimum air quality standards in City of Berkeley buildings)
State Candidates and Ballot Measures
- State Senate: Jovanka Beckles
- State Assembly: Margot Smith
- YES on Proposition 3 (Repeal Prop 8/Allow same-sex marriage)
- YES on Proposition 5 (lower the vote approval threshold to 55% for local bond measures)
- YES on Proposition 6 (Ban involuntary servitude, i.e. slavery)
- YES on Proposition 32 (Minimum wage increase)
- YES on Proposition 33 (Repeal Costa-Hawkins/Allow stronger rent control)
- NO on Proposition 34 (Retaliatory scheme by big landlords to restrict the political activities of a single progressive nonprofit)
- NO on Proposition 36 (Roll back Prop 47/Worsen mass incarceration)