League of Conservation Voters Endorses Sam Liccardo for Congress
Liccardo: Clear Choice for the Environment
SAN JOSE, CA — Today, Sam Liccardo announced his endorsement from the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Action Fund. This further bolsters Liccardo after public polling shows Liccardo with a +17% lead.
Every environmental organization that has weighed in for this race —Sierra Club, California Environmental Voters, 350 Bay Area Action, and Animal Wellness — has endorsed Sam Liccardo over his opponent.
“Sam Liccardo is the environmental champion California voters deserve,” said Tiernan Sittenfeld, LCV Action Fund Senior Vice President of Government Affairs. “He has consistently stood up to Big Oil, including refusal to accept contributions from the fossil fuel industry. As the mayor of San Jose, Sam led efforts to reduce climate pollution, create cleaner, cheaper energy for 1 million residents, and fund public transit. That is why LCV Action Fund is proud to endorse his campaign.”
“I’m grateful that LCV Action Fund appreciates the work I did in San Jose to preserve hillsides and open space, and to launch a clean energy utility that provides 1 million residents with electricity that is 95% GHG free and 8% cheaper than PG&E’s,” Liccardo said. “I’m honored to have their endorsement.”
As Mayor of San José, Liccardo led transformative efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 36% , standing up to powerful industries including Big Oil and large utility companies. He launched a clean energy utility that now delivers 95% greenhouse gas-free electricity to over a million residents. Liccardo also spearheaded three separate ballot measures–over developer opposition– that permanently protected open spaces from harmful development. He led the effort to make San José the largest U.S. city to prohibit expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure to newly constructed residential and commercial buildings, positioning him as a leader in climate action and environmental sustainability.
Liccardo is endorsed by the four largest news dailies in the region — the San Francisco Chronicle, the Mercury News, the Palo Alto Daily Post and the San Mateo Daily Journal — more than a dozen current members of Congress, the Sierra Club, California Environmental Voters, 350 Bay Area Action, the New Democrat Coalition, CHC BOLD PAC, NorCal Carpenters Union, Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), Defend the Vote, California High School Democrats, Latino Victory Fund and more than 120 local elected officials. A full endorsement list can be seen here.
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About Sam Liccardo
Sam Liccardo is running for Congress to focus Washington on the big issues like homelessness, crime, and the punishing cost of living. To a Congress that has been called the least productive in decades, Liccardo says “Let’s Get it Done!” on the problems that matter most to the Peninsula, Silicon Valley, and the Coastside.
As Mayor of San José, the Bay Area’s largest city, Liccardo’s innovative efforts to confront homelessness made San José one of the very few California cities to reduce street homelessness in Liccardo’s final year in office, 2022. Under Liccardo, San José resolved chronic deficits, reduced city debt and improved its credit rating. He took on the gun lobby and crafted a first-in-the-nation requirement for gun owners to pay annual fees to support violence-prevention programs and to purchase liability insurance. He launched San José Clean Energy for the city’s one million residents which now procures 95% of its electricity from renewable and GHG-free sources. Liccardo also led a series of successful ballot measures to preserve open space and hillsides, rebuild city streets and other infrastructure, and provide hundreds of millions in funding for housing affordable to vital workers such as teachers, nurses, firefighters, and police officers.
Prior to his service in elected office, Liccardo prosecuted felony crimes of sexual assault and child exploitation in the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, and also served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Georgetown University. His published works have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other national publications. He and his wife, Jessica García-Kohl, live in San José.
About California’s 16th Congressional District
California’s 16th is an open Congressional District that covers parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, home to Silicon Valley. The district covers all or part of the cities of Menlo Park, Los Altos, Woodside, Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Atherton, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Campbell, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, Saratoga and Stanford.
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