County Executive & Former City Councilmember Marc Elrich endorses Jessica
Union Leaders Endorse Jessica
Having devoted our careers to the union movement and having acquainted ourselves with the candidates we are happy to endorse Jessica Landman in Ward 1 and Roger Schlegel in Ward 3 for Takoma Park City Council.
We know Jessica and Roger share our view that strong, effective unions are needed to improve the lives of all working people. We believe they are the best candidates to represent these interests on our city’s Council.
- Karen Ackerman, Former AFL-CIO political director
- Sally Davies, Former President AFSCME University of Maryland College Park
- Dennis Desmond, Former Business Manager, LIUNA Local 11
- Fred Feinstein, Former NLRB General Counsel
- Tom Gagliardo, Civil rights, labor and employment attorney
- Beth Grupp, Union consultant
- Paul Huebner, Former Carpenters and Laborers union officer
- Jennifer Martin, Former President, Montgomery County Education Association
- Bob Muehlenkamp, Former Teamster Organizing Director.
- Steve Rosenthal, Former political director of the AFL-CIO
- Saul Schniderman, Former President AFSCME Library of Congress Guild
- Miriam Szapiro, Former chief NLRB Regional Advice Branch and union-side labor lawyer
- Joe Uehlein, Former Secretary-Treasurer of Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO and labor musician.
Environment & Climate Activists Endorse Jessica
We, the undersigned, endorse the following candidates for TKPK City Council in 2024 because of their deep longstanding knowledge of, and commitment to, climate and environmental issues:
- Ward 1 Jessica Landman
- Ward 3 Roger Schlegel
- Ward 6 Ambroise Agosse
- Bob Dreher, Environmental lawyer and conservationist
- Brenda Platt, Environmental director, national nonprofit organization, 30+ years
- Byrne H. Kelly, Landscape Architect/Environmental Planner
- Catherine Tunis, Environmental Policy Analyst, retired
- Charlotte Schoenmann, Architect, lighting activist
- Colleen Cordes, Former Psych/ Enviro Fellow FoE +TP Tree Commission
- David Hunter, International environmental and human rights professor/advocate
- David Reed, Enviro economist, author 7 books: international environment + security
- De Herman, Jewish Earth Alliance, Takoma Park Drawdown, Climate Action Coffee
- Diana Younts, TPEM Environmental Working Group
- Diane Curran, Environmental and nuclear safety attorney
- Diane MacEachern, Former Sierra Club; Founder & Publisher, Big Green Purse
- Dr. David Blockstein, Co-Director Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Week
- Dr. Robin Broad, Research Professor of Enviro & Development, American University
- Esther Siegel, Sustainable farmer, community activist
- Ferd Hoefner, Senior policy director, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
- Gillian Caldwell, Former CEO Global Witness,former 1Sky (now 350.org)
- Gina Gaspin, Founding member of TPSS Food Coop
- Jimmy Daukas, Sr. manager, national farmland protection non-profit organization
- Joseph Klockner, LEED AP BD+C, Klockner & Company – Sustainable Builders
- Karen Elrich, Co-founder TPSS food co-op, member Climate Action Coffee
- Karen Lange, Journalist on wildlife, sustainability and the environment
- Kopal Jha, TPSS co-op board, native ecosystem rejuvenation
- Linda Pentz Gunter, Journalist, founder Beyond Nuclear.
- Lorraine Pearsall, Environmental scientist and ardent conservationist
- Margaret Bowman, Water policy+ climate resilience advocate
- Michael Blau, Aerospace software engineer
- Mike Tabor, Sustainable farmer, community activist
- Mike Tidwell, Founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network
- Nadine Bloch, Former NOAA, 35+ yr Environmental Activist + educator
- Paul Chrostowski, Environmental consultant and author of over 100 scientific papers
- Philip Bogdonoff, Biodiv for Livable Climate, EcoRestoration Alliance,WB Enviro
- Randy Gibson, Outgoing TP Council; Climate Action Coffee, T Stormwater Solutions
- Robert Engelman, Former president, Worldwatch Institute
- Robert Goo, National expert on stormwater and Federal agency employee
- Robin Schoen, Science policy, NAS, Engineering, and Medicine.
- Shari Friedman, Climate and sustainability, 30 years, focus on policy and finance.
- Stephen Whitney, Climate Action Coffee, TP Stormwater Sol’s, Friends/Sligo Creek