 Ultimately, Cressman earned 7.6% of the vote, losing to former Democratic state senator and current California Secretary of State, Alex Padilla.Cressman helped direct efforts to pass the Overturn Citizens United ballot measure in California (formerly numbered Proposition 49), which is a voter instruction proposition written by Senator Ted Lieu, advocating that our elected officials take action to get big money out of politics, including support for a constitutional amendment.The California instruction reads