Who Rules America?  By G. William Domhoff, University of California at Santa Cruz

Members of the Santa Cruz City Council, 1970-2013

 
= very conservative
 
= conservative
 
= centrist
 
= liberal
 
= very liberal
= mayor

Place your mouse over the colored boxes to see the year; mouse-over the names to see their political affiliation.

(Click here for the same data presented as a list of years, rather than a list of people.)

1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Eugene Fleming
Growth Machine
 
Norman Walters
Growth Machine
 
Richard Werner
Growth Machine
 
 
 
Lorette Wood
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
Ernest Wicklund
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
Anne Garni
John Birch Society
 
 
Al Castagnola
Growth Machine
 
 
 
Vernon Smith
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
Denver Groff
Growth Machine
 
 
Robert Jones
Growth Machine
 
 
Sally Di Girolamo
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
Bert Muhly
Neighborhood Activist & Planner
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Virginia Sharp
Neighborhood Activist & Environmentalist
 
 
John Mahaney
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Larry Edler
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Carole De Palma
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
Charlotte Melville
Neighborhood Activist & Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
Joseph Ghio
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jim Hammond
Growth Machine
 
 
Spiro Mellis
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mike Rotkin
Marxist, Socialist/Feminist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bruce Van Allen
Marxist, Socialist/Feminist
 
 
 
 
Mardi Wormhoudt
Neighborhood Activist & Feminist
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Laird
Neighborhood Activist & Gay Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jane Weed
Neighborhood Activist & Leftist
 
 
 
 
Arnold Levine
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
 
Katy Sears-Williams
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
 
Don Lane
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mo Reich
Neighborhood Activist & Gay Activist
 
Katherine Beiers
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jane Yokoyama
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Neal Coonerty
Liberal
 
 
 
Scott Kennedy
Liberal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Louis Rittenhouse
Growth Machine
 
 
 
 
Cynthia Mathews
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Celia Von der Muhl Scott
Neighborhood Activist & Environmentalist
 
 
 
Mary Beth Campbell
Liberal
 
 
 
 
Michael Hernandez
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
Tim Fitzmaurice
Environmentalist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Christopher Krohn
Environmentalist
 
 
 
 
Keith Sugar
Environmentalist
 
 
 
Ed Porter
Neighborhood Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emily Reilly
Liberal
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mark Primack
Centrist
 
 
 
 
Ryan Coonerty
Liberal
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tony Madrigal
Liberal & Union Activist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lynn Robinson
Law-and-Order Centrist
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
David Terrazas
Liberal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hilary Bryant
Centrist
 
 
 
Micah Posner
Progressive Activist
 
 
 
 
Pamela Comstock
Law-and-Order Conservative
 
 
 
 
Cynthia Chase
Progressive Activist
 
 
Richelle Noroyan
Liberal
 
 
 
Sandy Brown
Progressive Activist
 
Martine Watkins
Liberal
 

Source: Santa Cruz Public Library


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