1. Sally J Lieber was born on April 24,1961 and is an American politician from the state of California who has served as a member of the California State Board of Equalization since 2023.
30 Facts About Sally Lieber
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Sally Lieber was previously a member of the Mountain View City Council and the California State Assembly.
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Sally Lieber represented the 22nd Assembly District that includes the cities of Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and portions of Santa Clara and San Jose which are all located in Santa Clara County.
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In February 2022, Assemblywoman Lieber was endorsed by the California State Democratic Party for Board Member of the California State Board of Equalization, District 2.
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Sally Lieber won the seat in the California general election held on November 8,2022.
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Sally Lieber currently serves as an advisor to the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, an agency that was created through her legislation, and served on Attorney General Kamala Harris's transition team working on women's rehabilitation and mental health.
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Sally Lieber was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 24,1961.
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Sally Lieber worked on issues of child care for student parents, campus access for the disabled and student health care.
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Sally Lieber served as the City's representative on the Valley Transportation Authority's Board of Directors and as Chair of the Santa Clara Valley Water District's Water Commission.
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Sally Lieber ran for the 22nd Assembly District seat in 2002.
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Sally Lieber ran against Santa Clara City Councilperson Rod Diridon Jr.
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Sally Lieber's volunteers walked to 58,000 households during the campaign.
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Sally Lieber announced in December 2006 that she would be running for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, District 5 in the 2008 election against Liz Kniss.
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Sally Lieber was a 2012 candidate for California's newly drawn 13th State Senate District, which includes northern Santa Clara County and much of San Mateo County, but lost to San Mateo County Supervisor Jerry Hill on November 6,2012.
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Sally Lieber took the oath of office for Speaker pro Tempore on October 24,2006, becoming the third woman to serve in this role since 1849.
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Sally Lieber served on the Assembly's Committee on Insurance, Committee on Judiciary, Committee on Local Government, Committee on Health and as the Chair of the Assembly's Select Committee on Mobilehomes.
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Sally Lieber previously served as the Assembly Chair of the legislature's Joint Committee on Ending Poverty in California.
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Sally Lieber was one of only a few heterosexual legislators to joint-author Mark Leno's marriage equality bill.
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Sally Lieber has authored legislation that includes efforts increasing pupil immunizations, creating an independent sentencing commission, and improving the living conditions of inmates in California's overcrowded prisons.
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Sally Lieber has authored legislation providing for a death penalty moratorium, advocating for the rights of pregnant inmates in state prison, fighting for victims of human trafficking and battling toxic-dumping corporations.
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Sally Lieber begged for money, and collected cans and bottles, in order to buy food on the streets of Mountain View and San Jose.
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Sally Lieber used the experience to encourage the Governor to keep cold weather shelters open for the homeless.
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In 2004, Sally Lieber introduced extremely controversial legislation regarding the State vehicle Emission test cycle, which was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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The bi-ennial test previously exempted vehicles over 30 years old, while Sally Lieber's legislation fixed the cutoff date at 1976 in perpetuity.
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Sally Lieber was in the press in January 2007 by announcing she was planning on introducing a bill that will make it illegal in California to spank a child three years-old or younger.
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Sally Lieber may have been inspired by the law in Canada which prohibits spanking children under the age of 2 years or over the age of 11 years, which was passed in 2004.
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Sally Lieber has received low ratings from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and the California Chamber of Commerce.
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Sally Lieber ran for the California State Board of Equalization in the 2022 election.
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On June 7,2022, Sally Lieber became the Democratic Party's nominee going into the November general election run-off, which she won.
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Sally Lieber lost the general election to Mountain View councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga.