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Tony Thurmond, Incumbent Assembly Member, is a candidate for another office. This leaves the District 15 seat open to a new slate of 12 candidates on June 5. CA Assembly District 15 includes cities in two counties: parts of Oakland, all of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville, Piedmont, Richmond and other cities in West Contra Costa County. The Candidate Forum is co-hosted and moderated by the League of Women Voters of Oakland, the Coalition for Police Accountability and the League of Women Voters of Albany, Berkeley & Emeryville.
Each candidate will have an equal chance to respond to questions from the audience. All 12 registered CA Assembly District 15 candidates have been invited to participate in this forum:
- Andy Katz
- Ben Bartlett
- Jovanka Beckles
- Rochelle Pardue-Okimoto
- Sergey Piterman
- Buffy Wicks
- Raquella Thaman
- Pranav Jandhyala
- Cheryl Sudduth
- Judy Appel
- Dan Kalb
- Owen Poindexter
*All candidates, candidate supporters, and audience members must follow the League of Women Voters’ Ground Rules.
Parking is available on 58 th St off of Martin Luther King Jr Way