Endorsements

Americans 4 Hindus Endorse Lydia Kou

“We are proud to endorse LYDIA KOU for the esteemed position of State Assembly for California District 23 in the upcoming 2024 elections. Lydia Kou has consistently demonstrated strong leadership, integrity, and an unwavering commitment to the well-being of California and it diverse communities.”

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Silicon Valley Chinese Association

American Independent Party

Gregg Dieguez Endorses Lydia Kou

“I’m voting for Lydia Kou for State Assembly in the 23rd district for two reasons. First, Lydia is a person of Character and Competence, with enough local and regional government experience to understand our Bay Area problems, without becoming complicit in worsening them. She helped us found 20BillionReasons, which prevented Regional Measure 4 from wasting 66.69% of the $48 Billion in taxes which would have been levied. She understands finance as well as governance, and that combination is sorely lacking in Sacramento today.

The second reason is because of who Lydia is NOT; she is NOT “Part Of The Problem” in Sacramento these days.”

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Gregg Dieguez

Gus Mattammal (R)

Endorses

Lydia Kou

“I was impressed that she was willing to put her own future in Democratic party politics on the line to fight for some of the same things I was fighting for: more local control over housing, more sensible tax policy in Sacramento, and accountability for spending on things like homelessness.”

Gus Mattammal

Lydia is proud to have support from the following people.

(Names and Titles are for Identification Purposes Only)

Current and Former Elected Officials

Greer Stone, Mayor of Palo Alto

Ed Lauing, Vice Mayor of Palo Alto

Eric Filseth, Former Mayor & Council Member, Palo Alto

Tom DuBois, Former Mayor & Council Member, Palo Alto

Athur Keller, Former Planning & Transportation Commissioner, Palo Alto

Stan Mok, Mayor, Los Altos Hills

Linda Swan, Council Member & Former Mayor, Los Altos Hills

Rowena Turner, Council Member, Monte Sereno

George Ting, EL Camino Hospital Board Trustee, Los Altos Hills

Michelle Wu, Former Mayor & Council Member, Los Altos Hills

Lynette Lee Eng, Council Member & Former Mayor, Los Altos

Anita Enander, Former Mayor & Council Member, Los Altos

Scott Spielman, Former Parks & Recreation Commissioner, Los Altos

Steve Schmidt, Former Mayor & Council Member, Menlo Park

Paul Collachi, Former Mayor & Council Member, Menlo Park

Quentin Kopp, Former Senator (1986-1998) & Superior Court Judge (1999-2009), San Francisco

Ann Schneider, Council Member & Former Mayor, Millbrae

Mike Griffiths, Council Member, Torrance, CA & Founder of CA Cities for Local Control

Kitty Moore, Council Member, Cupertino

Liang Chao Council Member & Former Vice Mayor, Cupertino

Darcy Paul, Former Mayor, Cupertino

Ray Wang, Former Planning Commissioner, Cupertino

Nancy Reyerling, Former President, San Mateo County Harbor District

Joseph Hirsch, Former Planning Commissioner, Palo Alto

Richard Peardon, Retired PAPD and Chief of VA Police

Bill Widmer, Councilmember and Former Mayor, Atherton

And So Many Neighbors and Community Leaders

Susan Adams, Palo Alto

Bruce Adornato, MD, Menlo Park

Claude Aguilera, Palo Alto

Arnoldo Alcazar, Palo Alto

Richard Alexander, San Francisco

Jessie & Jon Anderson, Palo Alto

Ann Balin, Palo Alto

Eiko Bao, Atherton

Louise Beattie, Palo Alto

Elizabeth Becker, Los Altos

Louis Becker, Los Altos

Richard Billington, Palo Alto

Krista Bluesmith, Santa Cruz

Kent Bossange, Saratoga

Dana Breen, Portola Valley

Davina Brown, Palo Alto

David Bubenik, Palo Alto

Suzanne Carlos, San Jose

Clayborne Carson, Palo Alto

Andrew Chang, Los Altos Hills

Thomas Chanian, Campbell

Dr. Stella Clavecilla, Los Altos

Diane Claypool, Los Altos Hills

Janet Corrigan, Los Altos

John Patrick Corrigan, Los Altos

Darlene Cowden, Los Altos Hills

Howard Cohen, Palo Alto

Christine Czarnecki, Palo Alto

Janet Dafoe, Palo Alto

Rana Davis, Los Altos

Kathleen & Roland Dow, Los Altos

Charles Drew, Campbell

Ann Duwe, Cupertino

Walter Eng, Los Altos

Walter Frank Eng, Los Altos

Sharleen Kaye Fiddarman, Palo Alto

Len Filppu, Palo Alto

Rosemary Finnerty, Palo Alto

Jeanne Fleming, Palo Alto

Tom Fowler, Palo Alto

Charmaine Furman, Palo Alto

Niki Gastinel, Portola Valley

JoAnne Goldberg, Menlo Park

Alla Gorinevsky, Palo Alto

Carol Gottlieb, Los Altos Hills

Maurice Green, Palo Alto

Anne Gregory, Palo Alto

Thomas L. Gutshall, Los Altos Hills

William Hadaya, Los Altos Hills

Jonathan Hahn, Menlo Park

Richard Hallsted, Palo Alto

Theresa Han-Sebti, Rancho Mirage

John Harpootlian, Los Altos Hills

Ellen Hartog, Palo Alto

Terry Holzemer, Palo Alto

Wendy Hu, Los Altos

Helen Ingwersen, Menlo Park

Ian Irwin, Palo Alto

CeCi Kettendorf, Palo Alto

Terry Kitagawa, Los Altos

Gabriel Kralik, Palo Alto

Jack Kwei, Los Altos

Chung Lam, San Jose

Lisa Landers, Palo Alto

Sally LaPierre, Mountain View

Ben Lerner, Palo Alto

Heidi Lerner, Palo Alto

Yugen Lockhart, Palo Alto

Edward Loizeaux, Los Altos

Gwen Luce, Palo Alto

Jean Lund-Drew, Campbell

Jo Ann Mandinach, Palo Alto

Joanne Marcus, Palo Alto

Pat Marriott, Los Altos

Stepheny McGraw, Palo Alto

Karen McNay, Palo Alto

David Meinhardt, Palo Alto

Karen Meiswinkel, Half Moon Bay

Lillion Miller, Palo Alto

Neal Miller, Sherman Oaks

Wolfgang Moehler, Menlo Park

Lycdmila Moorehead, Palo Alto

Teresa Morris, Los Altos

Marge Mueller, Los Altos Hills

Cathy Murphy, Palo Alto

Tiffany Oda, San Francisco

Terry Oldberg, Los Altos Hills

Jacquelyn Parker, Moss Beach

Lorraine Amirian Parker, Palo Alto

Carol Petty, Los Altos Hills

Meredith Phillips, Palo Alto

Roberta Phillips, Los Altos

Cyndel Podich, Los Altos

Evelyn Preston, Palo Alto

Duffy Price, Los Altos Hills

Ron & Gloria Pyszka, Palo Alto

Bob Reed, Los Altos

Corinne Renaud, Palo Alto

Annette Ross, Palo Alto

Linda Sadunas, Menlo Park

Rebecca Sanders, Palo Alto

Jan Schachter, Portola Valley

David Schrom, Palo Alto

Carol Scott, Palo Alto

Charles Shao, Los Altos Hills

Wei Si, Palo Alto

Debbie Skelton, Los Altos

Andrea Smith, Palo Alto

Fan Tan Smith, Milpitas

Richard Staehnke, Palo Alto

Christine & Jonas Stafford, Palo Alto

Dan Stegnick, Pacifica

Kenneth Streib, Palo Alto

Jan Strohecker, Palo Alto

Yixin Su, Palo Alto

Doria Summa, Palo Alto

John Swan, Los Altos Hills

Jack Tomlin, Los Altos

Sophie Tsang, Palo Alto

Jocelyn Tseng, Palo Alto

Audrey Vaggione, Saratoga

Angelica Volterra, Palo Alto

Rahul Vasanth, Cupertino

Mike Wallau, Palo Alto

Jim Wang, Palo Alto

Lisa Warren, Cupertino

Freddie K. Wheeler, Los Altos

Raymond Wheeler, Los Altos

Kathy Woempner, Los Altos Hills

ChinChung (John) Won, Los Altos

Jean Wren, Palo Alto

Katherine Wurzburg, Los Altos

Xuliang Yan, San Jose

William Yeager, Menlo Park

John Yin, Palo Alto

Arlen Young, Palo Alto

Don Zadeh, Los Altos

Nan Zhong, Palo Alto

Zita Zukowsky, Palo Alto

Jon Zweig, Palo Alto

Testimonials

I am pleased to see you're running for this position and wish you success. I've read the information on your platform before and support your ideas and what you stand for.

Karin Meiswinkel, Half Moon Bay

Not a pie-in-the-sky politician, Lydia Kou represents the community ideal---weaving change into the good already achieved by those, like her, who have always "given back." Lydia Kou speaks for people, not party. She is the most realistic candidate in many years, well worth my donation and vote.

Evelyn Preston, Palo Alto

I would like to endorse Lydia because she is passionate and cares about the people in her district, She knows the concerns and follows through on her convictions. She never gives up and will serve in Sacramento to make our needs known.

Ellen Hartog, Palo Alto

If you are tired of our current elected representative who listens to residents only when an election is imminent, if you are tired of the power grab in Sacramento that centralizes decisions that should be made on a local level, if you are tired of the current legislature mandating actions for cities to take that it then declines to help fund, vote for Lydia Kou. Lydia has made a name for herself in Palo Alto as being a consistent voice for our community and not the developers who could care less about the quality of life here. Lydia supports affordable housing and not subsidies for luxury developments that offer few community benefits. Lydia is always well prepared and knowledgeable about the issues. She believes in practical solutions, and not in fairy tales proposed by others.

Carol Scott, Palo Alto

Lydia, with her proven record fighting for our city, is the perfect person to protect our city autonomy, the environment that we love, the integrity of our neighborhoods, and the independence of our decision-making for our own city. She works very hard for us and I trust her implicitly.

Janet DaFoe, Palo Alto

Lydia advocates for residents, not for developers.

Steven Scharf, former Mayor, Cupertino

Lydia will stand strong for democracy and against powerful interests who oppose it

David Schrom, Palo Alto

Protect Palo Alto from overreaching building regulations.

Alla Gorinevsky, Palo Alto

Sacramento needs moe people with ideas like Lydia

Jack Tomlin, Los Altos

I appreciate your transparency on your views on the various California propositions. Your support on Prop 36 is evidence of your willingness to do the right thing and, in addition, shows your strength to push back against our Govenor's endorsements.

Jacquelyn Parker

I want to endorse someone who can take on a fight with PG&E, who constantly delivers power outages, but with ridiculously high bills.

Mei Lu, Los Altos

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