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David Metz, a
Partner in Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3), has
provided opinion research and strategic guidance to hundreds of non-profit
organizations, government agencies, businesses, and political campaigns in
over 40 states since joining the firm in 1998.
Metz has provided research to win
some of the most expensive and contentious ballot measure campaigns in
national history. In November of 2010, his research helped guide the
campaign to defeat California's Proposition 23 to an overwhelming victory
with 62 percent of the vote, successfully defending the nation's strongest
state law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Metz's research
has also helped win voter approval for the largest conservation finance
measures in national history, including five successful statewide bond
measures providing $15 billion to protect land and water in California, as
well as major statewide measures in Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Nevada, New Jersey, and Oregon. His research on the issue of
“regulatory takings” helped the environmental community reverse
a string of ballot measure losses and win five consecutive campaigns in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Metz’s other
successful work on ballot measure campaigns has included tobacco prevention
(California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Arizona), Indian gaming
(Arizona), clean energy (Washington), early childhood education (Arizona),
stem cell research (California and Missouri), transportation funding
(California and Washington), and political reform (California and
Illinois).
In 2010, Metz's research helped candidates
at all levels of the ballot win tight races in an extraordinarily tough
year for Democrats. His clients included Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber;
Washington Congressman Rick Larsen; and Joan Buchanan and Alyson Huber, the
two top targets in the California Assembly by the state's Republican Party.
Metz has also provided opinion research on key message and policy
issues to numerous environmental and conservation organizations, among them
The Nature Conservancy, the Trust for Public Land, the League of
Conservation Voters, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Biodiversity
Project, Ducks Unlimited, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies,
the Wilderness Society, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Sierra Club, and
the National Audubon Society.
While at FM3, Metz has also specialized in providing community satisfaction, policy
development and ballot measure feasibility surveys for major cities,
including Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose.
David Metz
received his Bachelor's degree in Government from Harvard University and his Master's in Public Policy from the Goldman School of
Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley. His
writing on politics has appeared in Campaigns & Elections
magazine, and in Classifying by Race, an edited volume on the role
of race in American politics. Metz
may be reached at
FM3's Oakland office at (510) 451-9521, or
at dave@fm3research.com.
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