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John Fairbank
has more than twenty-five years experience in public opinion research and policy
analysis, specializing in ballot measures and advising candidates on
national, state and local levels.
As a founding partner of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz &
Associates, Mr. Fairbank has consulted for some of the most influential
national clients, in the areas of government, politics, education,
business, non-profit and labor.
Mr.
Fairbank works extensively on ballot propositions, initiatives and
referendums that focus on conservation, transportation, education, health
care, public safety and financing government services -– particularly state
and local bond and special tax measures. Mr. Fairbank has been
instrumental in statewide campaigns throughout the country that have
resulted in public approval of billions of dollars of funding for services,
programs and projects on behalf of state, county and city governments,
special districts and K-12 and community colleges.
Mr.
Fairbank has been involved as the principal voter opinion researcher and a
strategic advisor to successful candidates across the country for offices
including United States Senate and House of Representatives, as well as for
governor, mayor and other state and local offices.
At
the local level, Mr. Fairbank has specialized in developing strategies to
pass revenue measures for issues like education, the environment,
transportation, public safety, social services, and libraries in nearly a
hundred cities and counties in California
and other states. These
measures have included bonds, parcel taxes, sales taxes, utility user taxes,
business taxes, property owner fees and user fees.
In
the education finance arena, Mr. Fairbank has helped school districts and
community colleges win voter approval for over two hundred bond and special
tax measures. In total, these
measures, coupled with statewide educational propositions, have provided
more than $50 billion in funding for school construction and academic
improvements for elementary, high school and post-secondary education.
In
the area of the environment, Mr. Fairbank has conducted research and
provided strategic advice regarding public education campaigns, bonds and
programs with a focus on water quality, supply and conservation and open
space preservation. This research
helped campaigns, such as California Propositions 12, 13, 40, 50 and 84,
successfully fund capital projects to clean up stormwater and dry weather
run-off and to protect and preserve lakes, rivers, bays, coastal waters,
beaches, parks and natural areas throughout California
. Outside of California ,
he has also worked on water quality and water clean up and protection
programs campaigns in Puget Sound , Chesapeake
Bay and the Great Lakes .
In
the transportation field, Mr. Fairbank has help transportation and transit
agencies raise billions of dollars for road, freeway and highway projects
and public transit expansion and improvements in more than a dozen counties
in California and Washington
State . He was also the principal consultant to
the successful campaign for California ’s
sales tax on gas.
Mr.
Fairbank has also consulted for both business and non-profit sectors.
He has worked for many leading companies and organizations including The
Walt Disney Company, NBC/Universal, Mercury Insurance and Credit
Suisse. In the non-profit sector, Mr. Fairbank has advised such
organizations as The Nature Conservancy, the Writers Guild of America, the
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, the League of California Cities
and the American Lung Association.
John Fairbank graduated from UCLA and
serves as a Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social
Research. He lives in Los
Angeles . Mr. Fairbank may be reached in the
firm’s Santa Monica office
at (310) 828-1183, or at john@fm3research.com .
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