I did my civic duty last night and attented the District One Candidate’s Forum at Star of the Sea Catholic Church. This is the second time in a week I’ve been there, since Mary Judah started Daisies with Girl Scouts and her troop meets there. Unfortunately, I did not take my camera. Why do I always forget my camera? I should know better. And a notepad, too.
But I did find pics of myself online on a couple of sites from others who took photos of the event.
On this blog, in the second picture, I’m in the back on the left, sitting next to the lady in the gray hoodie. I’m wearing a black sweater. Of course. My hair actually looks good from the back. Who knew?
On this blog, when you look at the picture of people in the room, I’m on the right in the back. The lady next to me left and a dark-haired man sat down next to me instead. My head is bowed. I’m taking notes on what the candidate was saying. I took notes on what all of them said. Gotta keep ‘em separated, you know. That journalism experience sure comes in handy sometimes.
I knew three people were running, the “rock stars,” as I call them - Sue Lee, Eric Mar and Alicia Wang. I had no idea there were NINE candidates running. In addition to those three, we have:
Nicholas Belloni
Sherman D’Silva
George Flamik
Fidel Gakuba
Jason Jungreis and
Brian Larkin
I couldn’t find websites for two of the candidates, so I’ve linked to video statements on youtube. I think they all have statements on youtube, and I even found some video from the previous forum on September 17. The next forum is October 15 at the Richmond Rec Center at 6:30 p.m. Maybe I’ll see you there.