City of Alameda Democratic Club Endorsements

City of Alameda, Alameda County, and California State Endorsements
(updated: October 2026)

Sources: Alameda Post, CalMatters, ACDems

City of Alameda Mayor, Candidates, & Measures

Candidates for Mayor

✔️ Malia Vella

Candidates for City Council

✔️Thushan Amarasiriwardena

Candidates for AUSD Board of Education

✔️Carrie Hahnel

✔️Gary Lym

Joyce Boyd
Mike McMahon
Sarah Putnam
Ballot Measures
✔ YES • Measure L: SAFER Alameda Act – Preparing Alameda for Sea-Level Rise, Accidents, Flooding, Earthquakes, Resilience. Bond Measure requires 2/3 of voters to pass. (CADC Endorsed)
To prepare for emergencies, earthquakes and sea-level rise; prevent flooded Tubes; repair potholes; keep streets safe and accessible; maintain response to fires, accidents, and medical emergencies; prevent Bay pollution; and protect shorelines; shall the City of Alameda measure issuing $300,000,000 in bonds, levying $49/$100,000 of assessed value, generating approximately $19,000,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, requiring oversight, public disclosures, and local control, be adopted? Download PDF.
✔ YES • Measure M: Charter Amendment requires 50% of voters +1 to pass.
Shall the measure amending City Charter Sections 2-1.1, 2-3, 2-10, 3-7(G), 3-14, 7-2(J), 8-2, 8-5, 10-3, 10-6, 10-7, 10-12, 12-4(A) and (B), 14-1, 17-10, 28-2, 28-3 and 28-4, and repealing Sections 12-3(D) and 23-3 to conform to existing practices and amend and repeal outdated provisions be adopted? Download PDF.
✔ YES • Measure N: Charter Amendment requires 50% of voters +1 to pass.
Shall the measure amending Section 3-10 of the City Charter to change sales or leases of City real property exceeding one year to be approved by resolution rather than by ordinance and to reduce the City Council approval threshold from supermajority (four affirmative votes) to simple majority (three affirmative votes) for leases of City real property not exceeding ten years be adopted? Download PDF.

Alameda County Candidates & Measures

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United States Representative in Congress, District 12

✔ Lateefah Simon * (D)

Member of the State Assembly, District 18

✔ Mia Bonta * (D)

Member, State Board of Equalization, District 2

✔ Sally J. Lieber * (D)

Alameda County District Attorney

✔ Ursula Jones Dickson

County Supervisor, District 3

✔ Lena Tam

County Superintendent of Schools

✔ Alysse Castro

AC Transit District Director, Ward 3

✔ Adriana Valencia

County Ballot Measure

✔ YES • Measure RTM: Regional Transit Measure
Requires 50% of voters +1 to pass.

To prevent major service cuts to BART and other transit, avoid increased traffic, and reduce pollution by: Preserving BART, Caltrain, VTA, SamTrans, AC Transit, Muni, other transit for everyone, including workers, students, seniors, persons with disabilities; Supporting transit safety, cleanliness, affordability, reliability; Repairing targeted roads/potholes; Requiring financial transparency, oversight, accountability; shall the measure enacting a 0.5% (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara counties), and 1% (San Francisco) sales tax for 14 years generating approximately $980,000,000 annually, be adopted? Download PDF.