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John
Fairbank has over twenty-five years experience in public opinion
research and policy analysis, including advising candidates on
national, state and local levels. He has been involved as the
principal voter opinion researcher and a strategic advisor to
successful candidates for the United States Senate and House of
Representatives, as well as for successful candidates for governor,
mayor and other state and local offices in
California
,
Washington State
,
Arizona
,
Colorado
and
Hawaii
. Prior to becoming an independent public opinion consultant
in 1978, Mr. Fairbank worked for the California Assembly Democratic
Caucus where he helped elect Assembly members in districts
throughout
California
.
As well as being involved in candidate campaigns, John Fairbank
works extensively on ballot propositions -– particularly local and
state bond and special tax measures that focus on conservation,
transportation, education, public safety and financing government
services. In recent years Mr. Fairbank has been instrumental
in statewide campaigns in
California
,
Washington
State
and
Florida
that have resulted in public approval of billions of dollars worth
of bonds for clean water, parks and open space. He has also
been the principal voter opinion research consultant to campaigns
winning public support for gas tax transportation funding and reform
of the public education finance process.
In
the education finance arena, Mr. Fairbank helps school districts win
voter approval for bond and special tax measures, including 28
successful K-12 and community college school bond measures in 2002
alone.
Mr. Fairbank has also consulted for both business and non-profit
sectors. He has worked for many leading companies and
organizations including Nuevo Energy, Visa Credit Card, and Corbis.
In the non-profit sector, Mr. Fairbank has advised such
organizations as The Nature Conservancy, the Writers Guild of
America, the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA), the
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and the American Lung
Association.
John
Fairbank was born in
Sacramento
,
California
and 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@fmma.com.
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