10/28/2022
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Oakland Space Cat Voter Guide November 2022 Midterm Election:
Governor = Gavin Newsom
Lt Governor = Eleni Kounalakis
Secretary of State = Shirley Weber
Controller = Malia Cohen
Treasurer = Fiona Ma
Attorney General = Rob Bonta
Insurance Commissioner = Ricardo Lara
Board of Equalization, District 2 = Sally Lieber
Senator = Alex Padilla
Congress, 13th District = Barbara Lee
Congress, 14th District = David Canepa
State Assembly 18 = Mia Bonta
State Assembly 20 = Liz Ortega
Senate, District 10 = Aisha Wahab
Judges = Yes to all (none that need rejecting)
State Superintendent of Public Instruction = Tony Thurmond
Peralta Community College, Area 3 = Louis Quindlen
Peralta Community College, Area 5 = Cindi Reiss #1, Saleem Gilmore #2
Peralta Community College, Area 7 = Sheweet Yohannes
Alameda County District Attorney = Pamela Price
Alameda County Supervisor, Dist 3 = Rebecca Kaplan
AC Transit District Director At-Large = neither
OAKLAND MAYOR: (NO TAYLOR! NO DE LA FUENTE!)
Allyssa Victory #1, Sheng Thao #2, Greg Hodge #3
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL:
Dist. 2 = Nikki Fortunato Bas (NO LOWE!)
Dist. 4 = Nenna Joiner #1, Janani Ramachandran #2
Dist. 6 = Yakpasua Zazaboi #1, Kevin Jenkins #2
OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOLBOARD:
Dist. 2 = Max Orozco #1, Jennifer Brouhard #2
Dist. 4 = Mike Hutchinson #1, Pecolia Manigo #2
Dist. 6 = Valarie Bachelor #1, Joel Velasquez #2
Oakland City Auditor = Courtney Ruby
CA STATE PROPOSITIONS:
1 = Yes! (Protect Abortion Rights)
26 = meh. (Sports Betting in Tribal Casinos)
27 = meh. (Online Sports Betting)
28 = Yes (K-12 Art and Music Education)
29 = Yes (Dialysis clinic requirements)
30 = Yes and No (Good, but big giveaway to Lyft)
31 = No (Banning flavored to***co is too far)
LOCAL MEASURES:
D = No (Large parcel agriculture)
H = Yes (Renewal of funding for schools)
Q = Yes (Affordable housing)
R = Yes (Gender neutral language)
S = Yes (Let non-citizens vote for schoolboard)
T = Yes (Progressive business tax)
U = Yes (Infrastructure bond)
V = Yes (Just cause for eviction)
W = Yes (Campaign reform, but has some problems)
X = Yes (Term limits, etc)
Y = No (Zoo parcel tax)