If you want to know what’s going on in local politics, who’s running for City Council or Pasadena Board of Education, ACT – the oldest and largest progressive political organization in the San Gabriel Valley – is hosting a candidate forum at PCC, in cooperation with Andrew Bott, Vice-President for Business Affairs of the Associated Students of PCC.
The forum is free and open to the public. All candidates for Pasadena City Council and the Pasadena Unified School District Board have been invited.
President Mark Rocha of Pasadena City College will welcome guests, and the forum will be moderated by John Buchanan, former Mayor of Sierra Madre. The Pasadena Community Network will be filming the forum for rebroadcast over the following weeks.
When: Thursday, January 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Pasadena City College, Creveling Lounge, Bldg CC
1570 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena
Hear from school board candidates in the newly re-drawn districts:
District 1
Kimberly Kenne, PUSD School Board Member
Dean Cooper Information Technology Consultant
District 3
Guillermo Arce, Human Services Administrator
Tyron Hampton, Project Manager
Ruben Hueso,Public School Educator
Deirdra Duncan, Foster Parent
District 5
Elizabeth Pomeroy, PUSD School Board Member
Stella Murga Director, Youth Center
District 7
Scott Phelps, PUSD Board of Education
Luis Carlos Ayala, Attorney/Educator
This is a special opportunity to hear from the candidates running for Pasadena city council in two districts:
District 3
Ishmael Trone, Businessman/Financial Consultant
John J. Kennedy, Senior VP Nonprofit
Nicholas Benson, Minister/Educator
District 5
Victor M. Gordo, Councilmember/Attorney
Israel Estrada, Nonprofit Executive Director
(Terry Tornek, the incumbent City Councilmember in District 7, is running unopposed, so he will not be speaking at the forum.)
For further information, contact: Jon Fuhrman @ 626. 795-5255
