Campaigning with family nearby
Randall Stone with his son beside a Chico City Council campaign sign.
Campaigns · elected service · civic record
Public service should leave more than a slogan.
ElectStone is the public-service and political archive: campaigns, votes, arguments, records, media, lost proposals, later outcomes and the work voters were asked to evaluate. It is not an extension of Randall Stone Financial and it is not an active campaign operation.
Campaign archive · photographs
The signs, rooms and ordinary family moments are part of the record.
These photographs are preserved as historical campaign material. They document campaigning and public appearances; they are not current campaign messaging.
Candidate forum and club appearances
Randall Stone speaking at a Democratic Action Club of Chico event.
The campaign shirt traveled
A Tahoe Triple running photograph that also became campaign-era visual history.
Council record
Votes, primary documents, authored work and the press trail.
The Council record includes: AB 430, extreme-weather shelters, the Dana Carey wildfire article, COVID-19 emergency records, and clearly identified gaps where original speeches or written artifacts have not yet been recovered.
Campaign identity and graphics
Original campaign graphics and signs are preserved as historical campaign media.
Current endorsement · November 2026
Melanie Bagby for Sonoma County Supervisor, District 4
Randall has endorsed his friend and fellow California local-government leader Melanie Bagby in the November 2026 race for Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, District 4. Bagby's campaign endorsement list identifies Randall among former and current local-government leaders. The endorsement is kept here as a dated current political position, separate from the historical archive.
Bagby campaign endorsement list → District 4 election context →
Browse by problem
The work is easier to understand this way.
Housing
Bidwell Park Apartments, shelter, post-Camp Fire housing, standards, infrastructure and secondary displacement.
Housing record →Accessibility
ADA routes, East Avenue, Esplanade reform, disability advocates, survey work and budget implementation.
Accessibility →Camp Fire & recovery
Housing pressure, debris, state and federal engagement, resilience and the refusal to treat disaster as a reason to stop planning.
Camp Fire archive →Civil rights
Stonewall, Families Belong Together, police-community accountability and a record that includes disagreement rather than editing it away.
Media & archive →Regional governance
League of California Cities, BCAG, BRTC, public finance and the work that crosses municipal boundaries.
Regional record →Environment & parks
Climate as an operating condition; externalized costs; Big Chico Creek; Arundo donax; fire danger; parks; and the maintenance problems that remain after the ribbon cutting.
Environment, economics & lived consequence →Before elected office · 2004–2008 organizing
The headquarters worked because somebody had to make the headquarters work.
Long before a City Council campaign, Randall Stone was doing the less photogenic work of local political organization: Democratic Action Club of Chico leadership, county Democratic committee work, technology, facilities and election-cycle logistics. His firsthand archive identifies him as the master lessee and IT lead for the 600 Main Street headquarters used during the 2008 general election.
Front and center, while taking the back seat.
The photograph catches the paradox nicely. Stone is near the center of the frame but not at the ribbon. The operating contribution was the infrastructure behind the event: space, IT, local organization and the work that let candidate campaigns share one functioning headquarters.
Contemporaneous Chico News & Review coverage describes a 3,800-square-foot headquarters at Sixth and Main that served CD2 for Obama, the Democratic Action Club of Chico, Chico Democrats and other campaigns. More than 260 people attended the July 12 grand opening.
The presidential-primary record is more interesting than a retroactive party-line story. In April 2008, CN&R reported that Randall and Krista Gallwitz were seeking Clinton delegate positions while Obama activists pursued their own delegate slate. By the general election, the shared headquarters was supporting Obama and the wider local Democratic ticket. 2008 general-election organizing
Contemporaneous coverage variously described Stone as DACC chair, vice-chairman and as heading the club across different points in the cycle. Rather than force false precision onto shifting volunteer titles, this archive records the durable fact: he was part of the organization’s leadership across multiple election cycles, including 2004, 2006 and 2008.
The contested primary is part of the story too.
Randall and Krista participated in the Democratic delegate process during the 2008 presidential primary. The 2008 primary delegate material is shown separately from the later Obama general-election headquarters.
Archive images
Campaign, policy, consequence.
The first Council election became a governing responsibility in real time.
Support did not always arrive as polished campaign collateral.
Two candidates and the local coalition around the 2012 election.
Public safety at operating distance
Mayor Randall Stone participated in the multiweek first Chico Fire Citizens Academy, including hands-on operations training. Exact date pending.
Affordable housing after the hard work
Local questions carried to Sacramento
Jim Walker at a campaign fundraiser
Randall Stone with the late Jim Walker at a 2012 campaign fundraiser at former Councilmember Tom Nickell’s home. Walker, then Chico’s outgoing Vice Mayor, had served on the Chico Area Recreation and Park District board and the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission. Professionally, Walker was a family nurse practitioner and PA-C. He was also a competitive triathlete; Stone recalls competing as a youngster in the same 1984 Rancho Seco triathlon that Walker, then in college, won. Walker publicly endorsed Stone’s first City Council campaign and died of brain cancer in 2022.
Early Council support network
Three former Chico council figures were part of Stone’s early support network. Outgoing Vice Mayor Jim Walker publicly endorsed Stone in 2012. Former Councilmember and retired CHP officer Tom Nickell publicly endorsed Stone in 2012 and again in 2016. Stone’s firsthand campaign archive also records former Mayor and attorney Andy Holcombe as an early endorser and supporter; contemporaneous campaign-finance reporting independently documents a $500 contribution to Stone’s 2012 campaign.
Walker endorsement · 2012 · Nickell endorsement · 2012 · Nickell endorsement · 2016 · Holcombe campaign contribution · 2012
Public record
Carry the source, not just the slogan.
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Contact & source routing
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Archive correspondence
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Social & sharing
Share-ready artwork
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