Endorsements 2012
Post-Primary Endorsement Guide
Download the Post-Primary Endorsement Guide to learn more about candidate endorsements after the June 5, 2012 Primary Election.
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2012 Convention Endorsement Results
The California Democratic Party has issued Primary Endorsements for the following candidates and ballot initiatives.
US Senate
Dianne Feinstein*
Ballot Initiatives
Yes on Proposition 28 – Legislative Term Limits
Reduces the total amount of time a person may serve in the state legislature from 14 years to 12 years. Allows a person to serve a total of 12 years either in the Assembly, the Senate, or a combination of both. Applies only to legislators first elected after the measure is passed. Legislators elected before the measure is passed will continue to be subject to existing term limits.
Yes on Proposition 29 – Cigarette Tax for Cancer Research
Imposes additional five cent tax on each cigarette distributed ($1.00 per pack), and an equivalent tax increase on other tobacco products, to fund cancer research and other specified purposes. Requires tax revenues be deposited into a special fund to finance research and research facilities focused on detecting, preventing, treating, and curing cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other tobacco-related diseases, and to finance prevention programs.
State Assembly
State Senate
| SD03 Lois Wolk* | SD25 Carol Liu* | |
| SD05 Cathleen Galgiani | SD27 Fran Pavley* | |
| SD07 Mark DeSaulnier* | SD29 Greg Diamond | |
| SD09 Loni Hancock* | SD31 Steve Clute | |
| SD11 Mark Leno* | SD33 Ricardo Lara | |
| SD17 Bill Monning | SD35 Roderick Wright* | |
| SD19 Hannah-Beth Jackson | SD39 Marty Block | |
| SD21 Star Moffatt |
Congress