Representatives Raul Ruiz MD, Salud Carbajal, Sharice Davids Endorse Liccardo for Congress
After Announcing Dominant Fundraising, Liccardo’s National Coalition is Growing
SAN JOSE, CA — Today, Sam Liccardo announced endorsements from Representatives Raul Ruiz MD, Salud Carbajal, and Sharice Davids. This announcement comes after Liccardo announced raising $1.6 million in Q2.
“Whether it’s lowering healthcare costs, fighting climate change, or promoting bipartisanship, I believe Sam Liccardo can get it done,” Ruiz said. “He has a proven record as mayor of the Bay Area’s biggest city, and I look forward to working with him in Congress.”
“We need Sam Liccardo in Congress, and I’m proud to endorse his campaign,” Carbajal said. “He has a record of bringing people together, who might disagree, to do the right thing. And his commitment to taking action on pressing issues facing California families like gun violence prevention will be critical when we retake the Majority this November.”
“I’m proud to endorse Sam Liccardo for Congress,” Davids said. “Whether it’s promoting an economy that works for everyone, fighting climate change, or abortion rights, I know Sam will be a champion for the issues that matter most. I look forward to calling him my colleague in Congress.”
“I’m honored to be supported by these extraordinary and exemplary members of Congress,” Liccardo said. Whether it’s taking on the gun lobby, championing lower prescription drug prices,or protecting abortion rights, these leaders have been tremendous—and I’m excited to work with them to get it done.”
Liccardo is endorsed by the Sierra Club, New Democrat Coalition, NorCal Carpenters Union, Laborers’ International Union of North America, Defend the Vote, California State Controller Malia Cohen, U.S. Representatives Nanette Barragan, Tony Cárdenas, Lou Correa, Robert Garcia, Linda Sanchez, Scott Peters, Brad Schneider, Josh Harder, Annie Kuster, former U.S. Representatives Jackie Speier and Gil Cisneros, San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller, Former State Senator Jerry Hill, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, and more than 100 local elected officials and community leaders. In the primary election, he was endorsed by the Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. 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, climate change, reproductive rights, 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, the Coastside, and Silicon Valley.
As Mayor of San José, the Bay Area’s largest city, Liccardo’s innovative efforts to confront homelessness include pioneering the conversion of motels to housing in 2016, four years prior to California adopting it as a statewide model. He piloted the development of quick-build prefabricated housing communities that were constructed at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional apartments, helping thousands come off the streets. Liccardo also launched a successful program that employs unhoused residents cleaning the city in exchange for housing and pay (“San José Bridge”). Though San José long struggled with growing homelessness, it became 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, particularly through a 2016 ballot measure that saved taxpayers $3 billion over three decades. 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. Liccardo led efforts to expand BART and was part of the regional coalition that supported the successful efforts to electrify Caltrain.
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.