Jacqui Duncan
Oakland
“Understanding that your vote counts. … If you are passionate about an issue or not, you need to make your position known.”
Avi Reddy
Oakland
“Educating people about issues. … Local politics is the biggest political arena that gets the least amount of attention and needs the most amount of attention.”
Stacie Warden
Alameda
“We get a lot of people in politics by default. People didn’t like them, but they don’t not like them enough to go out and vote against them.”
Daniel Garcia
Piedmont
“Knowing what their local city mayor and city council are doing. … If people really got into local politics, they’d realize the importance of state and federal politics.
Compiled by Cynthia Gibson in Oakland.
