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California Chronicle
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA BACKS WESTLY IN ‘06
California Political Desk
May 9, 2006

Move by Top Calif. LGBT Rights Group Reflects Westly’s Deep Support in Community.

PALO ALTO, CA – Recognizing Steve Westly’s longtime commitment to ensuring equality for all Californians, Equality California, California’s premier LGBT advocacy organization, has endorsed Controller Steve Westly for Governor in 2006.

According to Equality California’s website, “Equality California, along with Equality California Institute and the Equality California PAC, share a mission to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Californians. Founded in 1998, Equality California has chapters throughout the state and offices in Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco.”

“Steve Westly is the only major gubernatorial candidate who has unequivocally supported equality for our community from the very start of his political career and the only candidate to have a perfect score on our questionnaire,” said Geoffrey Kors, EQCA Executive Director. “It is essential that California elects a Governor who will never waiver on the issue of equality and that candidate is Steve Westly.”

“I am thrilled to have won the support of the leading LGBT rights advocacy group in California,” said Controller Westly. “EQCA knows I have been committed to progressive values like LGBT equality for more than 25 years, and I will carry this commitment with me to the Governor’s office.”

Steve Westly – whose campaign is co-chaired by openly gay State Senator Carole Migden – has also won endorsements from many other LGBT leaders and organizations including Lorri Jean, CEO of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, San Mateo County Supervisor Richard Gordon, Palm Springs Mayor Ron Oden, Chula Vista Mayor Stephen Padilla, Mayor, Cathedral City Mayor Pro Tem Greg Pettis, West Hollywood City Councilmember Jeffrey Prang, San Jose City Councilmember Ken Yeager, Marriage Equality California founder L.J. Carusone, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center Board of Directors Co-Chair Dean Hansell, former E*Trade President and COO Kathy Levinson, Human Rights Campaign Board of Governors Co-Chair Alan Uphold, GLSEN Board Member Yashar Hedayat, Orange County’s Eleanor Roosevelt Stonewall Democrats, Los Angeles’ Stonewall Democrats, Sacramento’s Stonewall Democrats, and the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee (BAYMEC).

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