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Alameda County, CA March 5, 2002 Election
Councilmember; City of Oakland; District 6 Voter Information

Results as of Apr 2 8:55pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (36/36)
Candidates (Vote for 1)
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Desley Brooks 4577 votes 53.4%

  • Occupation: Chief of Staff to County Supervisor Keith Carson
  • Board Member, Girls Incorporated of Alameda County
  • Board Member, Afro-American Construction Workers
  • Member, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
  • City of Oakland Head Start Advisory Panel
  • Fellow, Safe Passages/Urban Health Initiative
  • Former Member, Nat'l Org. of Black Law Enforcement Execs.
Priorities:
  • Revitalize our commercial districts and neighborhoods
  • Make our streets safe
  • Fix abandoned homes for resale to low & moderate-income families
Moses L. Mayne, Jr. 2938 votes 34.2%
  • Occupation: Incumbent
Nancy S. Sidebotham 1056 votes 12.3%
  • Occupation: Tax Preparer
  • Community Activist & Advocate
  • Chairperson Shop Oakland 2000 & 2001
  • Organized both the "Leona Quarry Community Coalition (LQCC)" and the "Stop the Widening of Edwards/73rd Avenue Committee"
  • Oakland CrimeStoppers, Founding Board Member
  • MacArthur Merchants, Millsmont Merchants & Foothill-Seminary-Bancroft Merchants Associations, Current or Past Board Member
  • Oakland Emergency Task Force
Priorities:
  • Economic Revitalization of East Oakland
  • Community Policing
  • Infrastructure

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  Events

League of Women Voters' Candidates' Forum

  • Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7:50 PM, Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland 94612.
  • Co-sponsored by the Nat'l Coalition of 100 Black Women, Bay Area/Oakland Chapter
  • The public is invited to attend this forum and submit questions for the candidates.
  • This forum will be shown live on KTOP, Oakland Cable Channel 10, and rebroadcast from 3:30 - 4:30 PM Saturday, March 2 and from 4:30 - 5:30 PM Tuesday, March 5.
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