The Center for Transportation for Excellence in Washington DC monitors transportation sales tax campaigns across the U.S.—the successes, failures and lessons learned. When interviewed earlier this year Director Jason Jordan stressed that the first lesson is that success requires a “great, broad and deep coalition." Jordan said that coalition has to engage the public early, stick together, and keep talking about the value of the transportation investment—that it has to wage what is essentially a “permanent campaign.”
See some of the members of that big coalition below, and join them at Move LA's 8th Annual Transportation Conversation—REGISTER HERE—which is the wind-up and the pitch for LA County’s next sales tax measure, likely to be on the ballot in November 2016. At the LA Cathedral's Conference Center in downtown LA next Monday with lunch beginning at 11:15 a.m.
Don’t miss out. It will be a provocative conversation about what is in Metro’s proposed expenditure plan, and what isn’t—but should be. With LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, Professor Dr. Manuel Pastor from USC, and a great, broad, deep coalition including (in alphabetical order):
Art Aguilar, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1277
John Boesel, CalStart
Tamika Butler, LA County Bicycle Coalition
Darrell Clarke, Sierra Club (and formerly Friends of Expo)
Andre Colaiace, Access Services
Mike Eng, LA Community College District Board
Nidia Erceg, Coalition for Clean Air
Cecilia Estolano, ELP Advisors
Chris Hannan, LA/Orange County Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO
Rusty Hicks, LA County Federation of Labor
Zach Hoover, LA Voice
David Kersh, Carpenters/Contractors Cooperation Committee
Mary Leslie, LA Business Council
Romel Lopez, ASU President of East LA College
Dr. Joseph K. Lyou, Coalition for Clean Air
Jessica Meaney, Investing in Place
Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza, SoCal Gas
Hilary Norton, FAST (Fixing Angelenos Stuck in Traffic)
Brandi Orton, St. Barnabas Senior Services
Erika Thi Patterson, Jobs to Move America
Jonathan Parfrey, Climate Resolve
Joyce Perkins, LANI (Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative)
Ron “Halisi” Price, African American Sheet Metal Workers Association and LA Black Worker Center/Black Labor Construction Council
Tracy Rafter, LA County Business Federation
Kevin Ramsey, SoCal Chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors
Sergio Rascon, Laborers International Union of North America Local 300
Alberto Retana, Community Coalition
Eric Stockel, One LA and Leo Baeck Temple
Taylor Thomas, East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Tanua Thrash-Ntuk, LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation)
Gary Toebben, LA Area Chamber of Commerce
M C Townsend, Regional Black Chamber of Commerce San Fernando Valley
Thomas Yee, LA THRIVES