Hear Senator John Kerry, basketball great Kevin Johnson and more

Hear Senator John Kerry, basketball great Kevin Johnson, State Senator Darrell Steinberg, Former State Senator Deborah Ortiz, City Councilmember Kevin McCarty, and Assemblymember Dave Jones at the Obama rally on Feb. 2 in Sacramento.

John Forbes Kerry is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts.

Kevin Maurice Johnson is a retired American basketball point guard who played for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns.

Darrell Steven Steinberg is currently serving his first term in the California State Senate. He is best known for his co-authoring of the 2004 California Ballot Proposition 63, which imposes a 1% tax on incomes of $1,000,000 or more for mental health funding.

Deborah V. Ortiz was a Democratic California State Senator. Prior to her election to the State Senate she served in the California State Assembly from 1996 to 1998.

Kevin McCarty has been a member of the Sacramento City Council since 2004.

Dave Jones, a Democrat, chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee and serves on the Budget Committee, the Health Committee, the Utilities and Commerce Committee and the Agriculture Committee.

David Cay Johnston is a journalist for the New York Times covering our tax system and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his reporting. He is also the author of Perfectly Legal: the Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich and Cheat Everybody Else.