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Bicker, Castillo & Fairbanks (BCF) is a political consulting firm based in Sacramento, California. The firm has three principle partners: Gwyn Bicker, Brandon Castillo and Kathy Fairbanks. According to the organization's website, they have "collectively managed more than a dozen successful local and statewide ballot initiative campaigns."

BCF says that it "specializes in taking a public policy issue and framing it in a way that is compelling to the public and policy makers alike....Our approach is simple: Be different, faster and more thorough than the people on the other side of the issue."^[1]

Ballot campaigns

2010

See also: Vendors and consultants to California's 2010 ballot proposition campaigns

Legend: Worked for yes campaign Worked for no campaign

In 2010, Bicker, Castillo & Fairbanks consulted for three of the statewide propositions on the California ballot:

• Proposition 17: $390,000^[2]
• Proposition 22: $455,555
• Proposition 23: $308,065

With respect to their work on Proposition 17, Dean Calbreath, a journalist with the San Diego Union-Tribune, wrote that a coalition of organizations listed as supporting Proposition 17 "is actually the creation of a Sacramento public-affairs firm, Bicker, Castillo & Fairbanks."^[3]

Pre-2010

Ballot measure campaigns BC&F has worked for include:

• Proposition 1A (May 2009): $152,000^[4]
• Proposition 99 (2008): $500,000^[5]
• Tribal Gaming Compacts, 2008: $270,000^[6]
• Proposition 82, 2006
• Proposition 90, 2006
• Proposition 55, 2004
• Proposition 1A, 2004

See also

• California political consultants
• Vendors and consultants to California's 2010 ballot proposition campaigns

External links

• Website of Bicker, Castillo & Fairbanks

References

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