California IATSE Council Endorses Adam Schiff For U.S. Senate

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The California IATSE Council has endorsed Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff in his campaign to succeed U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who has not yet said whether or not she’ll be seeking reelection next year.

Schiff is the 11-term congressman whose district includes Burbank, Hollywood and West Hollywood. The council, which is made up of 18 IATSE locals representing more than 54,000 workers in the film at TV industry throughout the state, said in a statement that “We make this early commitment because our decades of working with Congressman Schiff have given us direct evidence of his deep and abiding commitment to – and willingness to take action on – the issues that directly impact our members and their families. “From his early days in Congress, Adam Schiff, has demonstrated that commitment.

In 2001, when there was large scale flight of film and television productions from California to Canada, but the term “runaway production” was known only within our industry and certainly not in the halls of Congress, Congressman Schiff became one of the earliest co-authors of federal legislation to keep the U.S.

competitive. He kept working for passage of that legislation, called the Independent Film and Television Production Incentive Act, until it became law in 2004. “During his time on the House Judiciary Committee, he defended the films and television shows our members make from copyright, and then Internet, theft.