Candidate Identification
Wake the Bear.
FAIRPAC runs WaketheBearCA.org — our scouting and support operation. Its job is to find the candidates who stand for common sense and the continuance of an individual-centric way of life — the men and women who know how to ride the mustang without shooting it and without letting it trample Main Street — and to get help to their races. A candidate does not have to apply, affiliate, or ever contact FAIRPAC. If they stand for the fifteen positions, the support can come to them.
FAIRPAC's work covers both halves of the ballot. We may support or oppose candidates, and we may support or oppose ballot measures — the propositions, bonds, levies, and charter changes that decide as much of local life as any officeholder does. The same standard governs both. See the test we apply to measures →
Identify
Wake the Bear watches the races nobody else watches — school boards, councils, districts, sheriffs, state seats — and finds the candidates whose record and words show they stand for faith, reason, and a republic governed closest to home.
Distinguish
Every identified candidate is measured against the fifteen positions above — principle by principle, with evidence. The results are published in the register below, so a donor knows precisely who stands for what, and why.
Assist, Race by Race
Support is tailored to the one race at hand: research on the district, messaging that fits the community, and independent backing where it counts — delivered whether or not the candidate has ever spoken to us.
Support provided without a candidate's involvement is made independently. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. No FAIRPAC assistance is ever coordinated with a candidate we have not formally engaged.
Who Stands for What
Support with raw distinctions.
Donors deserve precision, not vague endorsements. For every race we enter, this register states exactly which candidate stands for which of the fifteen positions, the evidence for it, and what backing that race achieves. No candidate appears here without documented evidence, and no claim is published that we cannot source.
The candidate and the race
Name, office sought, district, and election date — a real person in a real race, vetted through Wake the Bear before a word is published.
The positions, with evidence
Which of the fifteen positions the candidate stands for — cited to votes cast, records kept, and words said in public. Principle-scored, never party-scored.
What your support buys
The concrete end a donation to that race achieves — a transparent school board, an honest budget, a safer county — stated plainly enough to be checked later.
FAIRPAC has not yet published a distinction on any candidate. When we do, the candidate, the race, the principles they stand for, and the evidence behind each claim will be posted here — the same standard we apply to ballot measures.
Candidate distinctions are published here as races are vetted. The first vetted races from Wake the Bear will appear in this register by name; until then, we print no names rather than print guesses.