{"id":978,"date":"2018-01-26T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=978"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:29:32","slug":"candidate-endorsement-meeting-for-assembly-district-15-and-district-attorney-feb-11-2-530pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Endorsement Meeting for  Assembly District 15 and District Attorney, Feb 11, 1:40-5:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sponsored by\u00a0Berkeley Citizens Action,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Berkeley Progressive Alliance &amp; Berkeley Tenants Union at the\u00a0<\/strong><strong>South Berkeley Senior Center,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=2939+Ellis+St,+Berkeley&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">2939 Ellis St, Berkeley.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All nine AD15 candidates returned our questionnaires,\u00a0as did the incumbent and challenger for district attorney, as they all seek\u00a0our endorsements in their campaigns to represent\u00a0Berkeley in the California State Assembly. Our questionnaire asked their positions on affordable housing, \u00a0Costa-Hawkins, single payer health care, affordable education, fracking, high speed rail and other issues. <strong>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p1rrRT-fb\">here<\/a> to read the candidates&#8217;\u00a0responses to our questionnaire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meet\u00a0all nine AD-15\u00a0candidates\u00a0and District Attorney\u00a0candidates <strong>Pamela Price and Nancy O&#8217;Malley<\/strong>.\u00a0Hear their responses to your questions\u00a0and decide which to endorse. The nine AD 15 candidates are:\u00a0<strong>Judy Appel, Ben Bartlett, Jovanka Beckles, Dan Kalb, Andy Katz, Rochelle Pardue Okimoto, Owen Poindexter, Cheryl Sudduth, and Buffy Wicks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please renew your membership so you can vote to endorse\u00a0candidates<\/strong>.\u00a0Anyone who has\u00a0<strong>ever<\/strong>\u00a0been a member of\u00a0BCA may vote if they renew their membership by paying current dues. Dues are $35 or $10 low income or student.\u00a0<strong>You may renew at the meeting<\/strong>\u00a0but we strongly suggest that you renew in advance to speed up the sign-in process at the event.\u00a0<strong>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/?page_id=2\">here<\/a>\u00a0to renew online.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong>: In the\u00a0June 5\u00a0Primary, voters may vote for only one of these nine AD15 candidates.The top two vote getters in the Primary will face each other in the\u00a0November 6\u00a0General Election.\u00a0The victor will\u00a0represent us in the California Assembly,\u00a0holding the seat currently held by Tony Thurmond, who is running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsored by\u00a0Berkeley Citizens Action,\u00a0Berkeley Progressive Alliance &amp; Berkeley Tenants Union at the\u00a0South Berkeley Senior Center,\u00a02939 Ellis St, Berkeley. All nine AD15 candidates returned our questionnaires,\u00a0as did the incumbent and challenger for district attorney, as they all seek\u00a0our endorsements in their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=978\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candidate Endorsement Meeting for  Assembly District 15 and District Attorney, Feb 11, 1:40-5:30pm<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}