Next Tuesday, January 30, 2024, from 6-8 p.m., MendoFever, KZYX, and KMUD are partnering to help the voters of California’s 2nd Assembly District meet the candidates running to represent our region in Sacramento.
Join us and find out who deserves your vote.
Matt LaFever, Founder of MendoFever, and Sarah Reith, News Director at KZYX will moderate a two-hour forum in which all seven candidates have agreed to participate. Those candidates are:
- Ted Williams- Mendocino County’s 5th District Supervisor
- Ariel Kelley- Former Healdsburg Mayor and current member of the Healdsburg City Council
- Cynthia Click- once KMUD’s Music Director and a current Willits resident
- Michael Greer- Member of Del Norte Unified School District School Board and the sole Republican on the ticket
- Frankie Myers- Vice-Chairman of the Yurok Tribe
- Chris Rogers- Member of Santa Rosa’s City Council
- Rusty Hicks- current chair of California’s Democratic Party
Mendocino County is geographically central to California’s 2nd Assembly District. The man or woman representing Mendocino County in the California State Assembly can work towards passing bills in the rural north’s favor, advocate for funding to support North Coast initiatives and join with others to uphold or override the California Governor’s veto power.
California’s Constitution dictates Assembly members serve a term of two years in length not to supersede a total of 12 years. On March 3, 2024, 2nd District voters will choose the Assemblymember who takes on the seat currently held by Jim Wood, the North Coast’s representative for 10 years.
The upcoming 2nd Assembly District’s representative faces several complex issues many centered in Mendocino County. Concerns regarding water, fire, housing, economic development, and health care are Mendocino County’s kitchen table issues. We brought these candidates here today hoping they have some answers.
With seven candidates to choose from, we want to give the public the information they need to help them decide which will best fulfill the mission of representing Mendocino County’s interests in the State Capitol.
Those interested in tuning in can watch the forum live on MendoFever’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/MendoFever. For those that prefer the radio, tune in on KZYX 88.1 · 90.7 · 91.5 FM or stream on their website at KZYX.org.
We want to know what issues are important to you. Using the form below, please submit any questions you have for candidates.
Scotch broom is a huge fire hazard. It needs to be eradicated.
If malignant narcissism is needed for the job then by god Ted’s your man!
one of you will take an oath.
questions to all candidates:
1) will you honor it?
2) where do you stand on the constitution?
3) where specifically do you stand on the 2nd A?
I thought the Election Date was March 5 and you posted March 3 which is a Sunday. Can you confirm the State of California has changed the Statewide Election to Sunday and give the date the legislative bodies made the change. I obviously missed that information somewhere along the line and you received it as a reporter but the rest of the State didn’t get that information.