SACRAMENTO, CA. - The National Federation of Independent Business/California SAFE Trust today announced its endorsement of Jeff Gorell in California Assembly District 37. Today’s endorsement comes from NFIB’s California Save America’s Free Enterprise Trust, the organization’s political action committee, and is based on voting records and positions on key small business issues to evaluate the candidates’ views on legislative issues affecting small business.

“NFIB is pleased to support Jeff Gorell in his election to the Assembly,” said John Kabateck, NFIB/CA
Executive Director. “As a small business owner, Jeff will fight to make sure that the voice of small
business is heard while focusing on job creation and regulatory and budget reform.”

The political clout of small business is more influential than most people know:

• In April, the Pew Research Center released a study on the negative and positive views people hold on various American institutions. Small business came out first, 39 percentage points higher than labor unions, 46 points higher than large corporations, and 49 points higher than banks and financial institutions.
• Small business owners comprise 15 percent of all registered voters in the U.S., by comparison union voters make up 11.9 percent. When small business employees are added, the small business voting bloc swells to 43 percent.
• The most common public affairs and political activities in which small employers engage, according to the NFIB Research Foundation, include initiating discussions with employees regarding the impact of a policy issue on the firm.
• Voters prefer candidates supported by small business by a margin of 3 to 1 over those supported by organized labor, according to the Winston Group.