California Professional Firefighters

A Firefighter Running for Office? CPF Can Help

While the CPF regularly gets involved in campaigns for state office, we generally leave local races up to our locals. We will get involved, however, if one of our members is running for a local office, such as city council, county supervisor or school board.

To be eligible for endorsement and financial support from CPF, a firefighter candidate must be a CPF member in good standing of his or her local union, have their local union's endorsement, and have the endorsement from any affected CPF local unions having jurisdiction.

If you are running for local office and have the endorsements of both your local and the endorsement of the local covering the area in which you're running, please call the CPF Political Department at (916) 921-9111, or e-mail Political Director Kelly Calkin - kcalkin@cpf.org.