Our grassroots campaign has been contacting voters who are responding positively to Susan’s understanding of the complex issues facing our communities and tenacious spirit to do the right thing despite the political consequences.
We have a great team. Join us in our new Oxnard office in Cafe on A, 438 South A Street or join our [...]

As Earth Day rolls around again, we are reminded of the event that occurred 40 years ago and launched the modern environmental movement. On January 28, 1969 a blowout on a Union Oil Company platform spilled 200,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off Santa Barbara which quickly spread into an oil slick 800 square miles wide, fouling beaches and killing wildlife.

On Tuesday night, another blowout on a state-of-the-art oil-drilling rig occurred off the coast of Louisiana critically injuring three people with 11 left missing and feared dead. Last fall, a blowout from another state-of-the-art platform off Australia in the Timor Sea sent a slick across 8,000 square miles. This month another spill went through the Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.

Since 1969, we in California have been especially vigilant about the protection of our $43 billion coastal economy. The march toward a greener future has been pronounced here and we have led the nation in efforts to curb global warming and foster green technologies.

While well-meaning people can have different opinions on the best way to protect our coast, it is clear to more than 100 environmental groups around the state that the precedent set by allowing a new slant drilling project by Texas-based Plains Exploration and Production Co. into state waters off the coast of Santa Barbara will set the tone for years to come.

The Tri-Counties Central Labor Council and California Labor Federation announced that they have each voted to support Susan Jordan for the 35th Assembly District in the June primary election.

The Tri-Counties Central Labor Council is comprised of more than 50,000 union members in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties who represent thousands of families on the Central Coast. Teachers, firefighters, nurses and many others are represented by the Tri-Counties Central Labor Council and its affiliate unions.

The California Labor Federation is made up of more than 1,200 AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions, representing 2.1 million union members in manufacturing, retail, construction, hospitality, public sector, health care, entertainment and other industries.

“Susan Jordan is a champion for the working families of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. We can count on her to fight for better schools, affordable health care and economic policies that help create jobs. She’s taken on Arnold Schwarzenegger and his corporate buddies and stopped their special-interest schemes by organizing local communities and building coalitions at the grassroots level. As our Assemblymember, Susan Jordan will bring broad experience and the highest degree of integrity to the State Capitol, and represent the people, not the powerful,” said Marilyn Valenzuela, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Tri-Counties Central Labor Council.

The workers who care for the most vulnerable populations in California – the sick, the elderly and the disabled – have given their sole endorsement to Susan Jordan in the Assembly District 35 race. These workers provide a critical lifeline to those most in need and know that Jordan will fight not just for them, but for all of the most vulnerable in our society.

“Looking at the budget votes that were cast in 2009, it has become clear to us that only a few legislators had the courage to stand up for home care services for the elderly, blind and disabled in this state. We believe that Susan Jordan will be a champion on our issues and will fight to ensure that state budgets are not balanced by cutting or eliminating these vitally needed services,” said Doug Moore, Executive Director, United Domestic Workers/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3930.

Watch Susan Jordan debate her primary opponent at a forum hosted by the Ventura Democratic Club. Click here.

The California Federation of Teachers (CFT), representing the voices of more than 75,000 educators across the state, has announced its support for Susan Jordan’s Assembly District 35 race.

CFT’s diverse statewide membership includes early childhood, K-12, community college and university educators, as well as classified staff.

“Our future lies in the success of our public education system,” Jordan said. “I am a product of public education and I want the next generation to have the same opportunities I did. It is absolutely critical at this time that we provide the resources and support that our educators and students deserve.

“As I travel the District and talk to those in education, it is clear to me that they are in this profession because they have a passion for it. The CFT’s support of my candidacy demonstrates that they understand I share that same passion,” Jordan added.

The CFT joins many other education leaders, both statewide and locally, in supporting Jordan’s Assembly race.

Listen to Susan on The Nick and Paul Show on AM 1490
http://www.nickandpaulshow.com/show/03-23-10.mp3

An Event for Susan Jordan
for the 35th Assembly District
at the home of Michael Behrman, M.D.
Sunday, April 11 •  1-3 p.m.
843 Park Hill Lane • Santa Barbara
Co-hosts
Lady Lesley Ridley Tree
David and Merna Braun
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Janet Wolf
Nancy Brown
Betty Stephens
Jill Dexter
Judith Hopkinson
Sara Miller McCune
Vickie Riskin and David Rintels
Susan Rose and Allan Ghitterman
Michael and [...]

eaving no doubt of Susan Jordan’s impeccable environmental credentials, the Sierra Club put its faith in Jordan’s leadership abilities and has endorsed her Assembly candidacy. The Sierra Club joins the California League of Conservation Voters, as well as some of the most well-known environmental leaders in the state in backing Jordan.

“Susan Jordan is a highly accomplished environmental leader who as Executive Director of the California Coastal Protection Network (CCPN) and co-founder of the group Vote the Coast, has played a central role in many major environmental victories. She has worked closely with the Sierra Club on many issues, and in the Assembly Susan would use her extensive experience working issues at the legislative level to further her environmental goals,” said David Gold, Los Padres Sierra Club Political Co-Chair.

“When elected, Susan Jordan will bring to Sacramento a proven record of having confronted, worked on, organized around and won victories involving some of the most important environmental challenges facing California,” said Mark Massara, Former Director of the Sierra Club Coastal Program.

“Susan has worked to protect our coast from dangerous gas terminals, offshore oil derricks, destructive development and fought to protect precious natural resources for our families and future generations,” Massara added. “No other Assembly candidate, from Santa Barbara or anywhere in California, brings a level of experience and environmental accomplishments close to Jordan’s. With unprecedented environmental challenges looming ahead, from sea rise to extreme climate change, we can depend on Jordan to get it right and get the job done.”

Paul Mason, Former Deputy Director, Sierra Club California, also had no reservations in his praise. “I don’t know anyone with more integrity than Susan Jordan. Susan is exactly the combination of smarts, real-world experience, and values that we need, and embodies the best case in a citizen-legislator.”

“Politics today is broken and so is Sacramento,” said Susan Jordan, who is running for the 35th Assembly District in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. “The minute campaigns start to become about who has raised the most money, our voters lose. Because of this, I filed to accept the voluntary spending limits and am the [...]