Runoff Election 11/4/2014
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Elizabeth Echols
21,664 votes
31.1%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Presidential Jobs Advisor
- President Obama's former Regional Administrator of the Small Business Administration and Senior Advisor on Clean Tech and Energy Efficiency
- Director: U.S. Green Building Council N. CA: Passed legislation to protect environment & create jobs
- OpNet CEO (non-profit): Trained low-income youth to get jobs in tech industry with 80% success rate
- Clinton White House Official: Developed Internet policy and raised $20 million to close digital divide
- Former Director of Policy at Google
- BA, Economics and Political Science, Yale University; JD, Stanford Law School
- elizabeth@echolsforassembly.com
Priorities:
- Expanding Educational Opportunity
- Creating Quality Jobs
- Protecting and Preserving Our Environment
Tony Thurmond
16,963 votes
24.4%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Youth Education Director
- Former Richmond City Councilmember and West Contra Costa School Board Member
- Led the campaign that reduced school suspensions by 27%
- Worked with our business community to raise over $300,000 to support the creation of 300 jobs for youth
- Social worker and lifelong youth mentor
- Convened an elected officials summit to explore restoring the I-80 Public Safety Corridor Partnership
- Former member of the California League of Cities Environmental Policy Committee
- tony@tonythurmond.com
Priorities:
- Improve Public Schools & Increase Access to Higher Education
- Create High-Wage Jobs and Job Training Programs
- Increasing Public Safety
Pamela Y Price
11,898 votes
17.1%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Civil Rights Attorney
- Survivor of Juvenile and Foster Care Systems
- JD and Masters, UC Berkeley, School of Law
- Yale College Graduate
- Sexual Harassment Plaintiff in Legendary Case
- Northern California Superlawyer 2003-2013
- votepamelaprice@pypesq.com
Priorities:
- Education + I am living proof of the game-changing effect of education.
- Small businesses and economic opportunity are the key to our local economic growth and improving the outlook for the state.
- Restoring our civil and criminal justice systems to work for real people
Rich Kinney
7,531 votes
10.8%
- Party: Republican
- Occupation: City Councilmember/Teacher
- Elected to San Pablo City Council November 2012
- Appointed to League of California Cities Housing, Community & Economic Development Legislative Committee December 2013
- City Delegate to Association of Bay Area Government (ABAG)
- Bachelors Degree in Music and Teaching Credential.
- Full time Substitute Teacher at Richmond High and Helms Middle School.
- Married to Jasmine Kinney Loh for 31 years
- rich@votekinney.com
Priorities:
- I'm running for the State Assembly to help bring a balance of power and more sensibility to Sacramento.
- We need elected officials we can trust to legislate for the good of us all, not to pay off special interest campaign donors.
- Fiscal responsibility, public safety, booming California economy and world class education system are my priorities for my district and the State.
Sam Kang
4,630 votes
6.7%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Civil Rights Organizer
- Saved $1.7 billion CalGrants college financial aid program during 2011 budget cuts.
- Defeated Prop 23 in which Texas oil companies tried to roll back environmental protections.
- Led national effort to block the largest telecom merger in U.S. history.
- Wrote and passed state legislation on variety of issues, including more education funding, environmental protections, greater access to health care,
- Serves on BART Civil Rights & Environmental Justice Committee
- Sierra Club member and Alameda County Parks, Recreation & Historical Commission, former member
- samkang2014@gmail.com
Priorities:
- Bringing down the cost of health care, especially for seniors, families and underserved communities.
- Increase K-12 funding, and bringing down the cost of higher education.
- Greater environmental protections, including ban on fracking
Clarence Hunt
3,329 votes
4.8%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
- BA Political Science
- Business Development Consulting
- Women in Business Advocate
- Ban Fracking Advocate
- Job Development Coordinator
- info@huntforassembly.com
Priorities:
- Create 15,000 new jobs in Assembly District 15 through small business tax credit incentives
- Reduce outsourcing jobs overseas by large Corporations based in California through closing tax loopholes
- Renovate public schools through increasing cigarette taxes and imposing an oil extraction tax on large oil companies
Eugene E. Ruyle
2,426 votes
3.5%
- Party: Peace and Freedom
- Occupation: Retired Anthropology Professor
- Professor of Anthropology, CSU, Long Beach
- PhD Anthropology, Columbia University (1971)
- MA Anthropology, Yale University (1965)
- BA Anthropology, UC. Berkeley (1963)
- US Marine Corps, enlisted (1957-1960)
- cuyleruyle@mac.com
Priorities:
- End the Wars & Tax the Rich. Power to the People
- Demilitarize and Democratize the University of California
- Protect and Restore our Mother Earth
Bernt Rainer Wahl
1,132 votes
1.6%
- Party: No Party Preference
- Occupation: Scientist/Entrepreneur/Professor
- Math/ Physics BA/BS UC Santa Cruz
- MBA UC Davis
- Masters of Information UC Berkeley
- Masters Multimedia CS East Bay
- PhD (candidate) Eng. UC Santa Cruz
- Industry Fellow UC Berkeley
- berkeley@gmail.com
Priorities:
- Education (all levels) University to Elementary
- Job Opportunities - all levels
- Real Environmental Action
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