Influential Grassroots Group OC Action Endorses Congresswoman’s Campaign 

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — OC Action, one of Orange County’s most influential grassroots organizations, has endorsed Congresswoman and leading progressive candidate for U.S. Senate Barbara Lee, the Lee campaign announced today. 

“Barbara Lee is a champion – an effective and proven fighter for underrepresented people and for justice for everyone,” said Jonathan Paik, Executive Director of OC Action. “Our organization was founded to build progressive power, and nothing can be more important to that mission than electing progressive champions. We are very proud to endorse Congresswoman Barbara Lee for United States Senate.”

OC Action was launched in 2017 to build an alliance between AAPI, Latinx, labor and environmental justice communities as a means of developing progressive political power in Orange County. The organization’s founding was the result of decades of community organizing and integrated voter engagement in the region, and OC Action is committed to a long-term progressive transformation of the electorate in their communities.

“OC Action has helped AAPI, Latinx and progressive communities come together to create massive shifts in the political landscape of Orange County, and I am honored that they are joining our growing team of progressives throughout California who will work to fight for progressive change and economic, climate and racial justice in California,” said Congresswoman Lee. “We have important work ahead of us, and I am very grateful for OC Action’s endorsement in this race.”

OC Action is now part of a rapidly growing grassroots coalition working to elect Congresswoman Lee. The Congresswoman also has the backing of Our Revolution – the largest grassroots-funded progressive political organization in the nation, the Working Families Party, Gen Z for Change, Alameda County Building and Construction Trades Council, California Legislative Black Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus PAC, Feminist Majority PAC, Black Women Organized for Political Action PAC, Higher Heights for America, Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile Democratic Club, the San Diego Democrats for Equality, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, and a series of young-Democratic clubs and organizations, including the San Diego County Young Democrats, East Bay Young Democrats, and Latine Young Democrats of the East Bay. 

Other prominent endorsers of Barbara Lee’s campaign include six of California’s eight statewide executive officers, including Attorney General Rob Bonta, Treasurer Fiona Ma, Controller Malia Cohen, Secretary of State Shirley Weber, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. Lee is also endorsed by Congressmembers Jamaal Bowman, Sheila Jackson Lee, Steven Horsford, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Troy Carter, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Nikema Williams, Jim Clyburn, Bennie Thompson, Lucy McBath, Terri Sewell, and Gregory Meeks, former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Cedric Richmond, former Georgia General Assembly House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, State Senators Caroline Menjivar, Susan Talamantes Eggman, Anna Caballero and Nancy Skinner, Assemblymembers Isaac Bryan, Mia Bonta and Corey Jackson, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, San Bernardino Mayor Helen Tran, Redlands Mayor Eddie Tejeda, Rialto Mayor Deborah Robertson, former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Palm Desert Mayor Pro Tem Karina Quintanilla, Dolores Huerta, California Democratic Party Asian Pacific Islander Caucus Chair Deepa Sharma, California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Chair Emeritus Amar Shergill, California Democratic Party LGBTQ Caucus Co-Chair Emeritus Tiffany Woods.