ABOUT

Sam Liccardo CA-16

DEMOCRAT for Congress

Sam Liccardo is a solution-oriented public servant who has dedicated his career to taking on his city’s biggest challenges. Elected as the 65th mayor of San José, California, Liccardo has spent his years in public service successfully leading movements to make communities more safe, successful, and secure.

FOR CALIFORNIA CONGRESS

Sam Liccardo is a solution-oriented public servant who has dedicated his career to taking on his city’s biggest challenges. Elected as the 65th mayor of San José, California, Liccardo has spent his years in public service successfully leading movements to boost the minimum wage, address and alleviate homelessness, put first-generation students on a path towards a college education, and fight for reproductive freedoms. Before becoming mayor, Liccardo worked to protect women and children as an prosecutor for felony crimes of sexual assault and exploitation.  In the 8 years he served as as Mayor of San Jose, Liccardo worked to implement more efficient ways to house the homeless, providing them jobs cleaning the city to work their way off the streets.

He worked with all sides to craft voter-approved measures that saved taxpayers $3 billion, balanced budgets, built affordable housing, added police, repaved 1,000 miles of roads, and helped lead efforts to electrify Caltrain. He developed national models for delivering lower-cost clean energy, providing free internet to 200,000 high-need residents, and expanding college access for first-generation students. 

"As Mayor of San José, Sam Liccardo led the way on innovative solutions to the high cost of housing, homelessness, improving our schools, and making every community safer. BOLD PAC is proud to endorse him for CA-16 so he can bring that experience to Congress and be a strong voice for our cities and communities. Sam knows what it takes to build coalitions and make real progress and I look forward to working with him as part of California's delegation to Congress," said CHC BOLD PAC Chairwoman Linda Sánchez.

He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Georgetown University. He lives in San José with his wife Jessica García-Kohl.