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Gary Kremen
Gary Kremen was a member of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors in California, representing District 7. He left office on December 2, 2022.
Kremen ran for re-election to the Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors to represent District 7 in California. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Kremen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Santa Clara County, California (2022)
General election
General election for Santa Clara Valley Water District District 7
Rebecca Eisenberg defeated incumbent Gary Kremen in the general election for Santa Clara Valley Water District District 7 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rebecca Eisenberg (Nonpartisan)  | 54.9 | 46,156 |
 | Gary Kremen (Nonpartisan) | 45.1 | 37,866 | |
| Total votes: 84,022 | |||
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2018
See also: Municipal elections in Santa Clara County, California (2018)
General election
The general election was canceled. Gary Kremen (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Gary Kremen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kremen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I successfully wrote the Water District’s guiding principals against Southern California and Big Agriculture water grabs. As Chairperson of the San Francisquito Joint Powers Authority, I led hiring the organization’s first women Executive Director while jumpstarting Palo Alto’s flood control efforts after a 19-year delay. Additionally, I spearheaded removing flood insurance requirements for hundreds of households in Mountain View and Los Altos.
In my first year that I was elected to the Water District, I fought entrenched corruption, including getting rid of the old CEO who was giving no-bid contracts to cronies. I led the decision to hire the Water District’s first Asian-American female CEO.
More work is needed and I will do it. We must continue to focus on storing clean, affordable water locally, expanding water conservation measures, increasing fiscal responsibility and climate resiliency.
My background includes multiple engineering degrees, a Stanford MBA, founding Clean Power Finance and Match.Com, serving as a UC Merced Foundation Trustee and teaching graduate energy policy. More on my background here.
I pledge to work hard every day for you.- I help keep our area with safe, clean and affordable water
- I worked on keeping our creeks clean during homelessness (1/4 of all homeless live in the creeks).
- I brought in a $484 million state grant for emergency water storage
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2018
Gary Kremen did not complete Ballotpedia's 2018 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
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