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California NOW Receives $120,000 from EdVoice and chooses "No Endorsement" in 8th AD race
For Immediate Release:
April 24, 2008
California NOW-PAC Goes “No Endorsement” in 8th A.D. Race
Women’s Organization Won’t Endorse Between a Progressive Democratic Woman and Man
SACRAMENTO – In what may go down as a banner day for the modern feminist movement, the California PAC of the National Organization for Women chose to make no endorsement in the Democratic Primary between Mariko Yamada, a professional social worker and two-term female County Supervisor and her male opponent, Christopher Cabaldon the former President and CEO of EdVoice.
EdVoice funds campaigns for candidates supportive of its agenda to “reform schools” and has already set aside $350,000 in an independent expenditure for Cabaldon’s campaign. In October of 2007, while Cabaldon was still at EdVoice’s helm, the education reform group donated $120,000 to NOW’s Women Vote 2008 campaign.
From NOW’s Spring 2008 newsletter:
“The California NOW PAC in partnership with EdVoice has created a special Women’s Vote 2008 project, because we know When Women Vote We Change the World. Our goal is to repeat the 1992 Year of the Woman, when record numbers of so-called “soccer moms” voted and elected more women to office than ever before. In the 2008 election, the daughters of those “soccer moms” are also going to the polls. Together, women have the most power in the voting booth, and will decide the 2008 elections. While the country is focused on November, we must remember to vote in the June elections in California, to vote on many important California Senate and Assembly races where good feminist representation is critical.”
Yamada received the news of the “no endorsement” decision on April 18th via a letter dated “April 25, 2008” on official California NOW-PAC stationary that includes the moving Susan B. Anthony quote, “Never another season of silence…” in its footer.
Yamada is the mother of two grown daughters, has served for nine years as an organizer of the Yolo County Women’s History Month Celebration and recently sponsored the first Solano County Women’s History Month Luncheon. Both events raise money to add women’s history materials to the Yolo and Solano County Library systems. She will receive the 2008 Woman of Distinction Award from Soroptimist International of Davis in May.
These efforts, among other attributes, did earn Yamada the endorsement of the California List, whose mission is clear: to elect pro-choice, Democratic women to the State Legislature.
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