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(EPOCH TIMES) – Fourteen Republican candidates met at a “Meet the Candidates” forum on March 24 to talk about their platforms and issues that they believe matter most to voters as they prepare for California’s June primaries and the November midterm elections.
The candidates, vying for U.S. Senate, governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, are competing for party endorsements at the California Republican Party convention in Anaheim in April in the hopes of making the November ballot in California’s top-two jungle primary system.
Two candidates at the Yorba Linda forum are competing for the chance to run against Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, who was appointed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom to fill the vacancy left by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Dr. Cordie Williams, a chiropractor and former Marine from Carlsbad, said his campaign is focused on “medical freedom,” and exposing the collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic that’s not talked about in the “fake news.”
“How many people have said goodbye to somebody through a Zoom funeral? How many people have said goodbye to somebody through plexiglass?” he asked.
Republican candidates for governor at the forum were: Shawn Collins, Jenny Rae Le Roux, David Lozano, Daniel Mercuri, Cristian Morales, Leo Zacky, and Major Williams.
Le Roux, a businesswoman from Redding, Calif., promised to bring balance—“something different than what’s coming out of the legislature right now,” she said.
If elected, Le Roux said she would use the governor’s “bully pulpit,” vetoes, executive orders and control over the state budget and government appointments to slow the progressive agenda.
“If they say yes, we say no,” she said.
Candidate Eric Early from Los Angeles criticized Democratic incumbent Attorney General Rob Bonta’s progressive policies on crime, denounced critical race theory and the state’s comprehensive sex education program for K-12 students, and promised to fight to restore election integrity in California.
Early, who previously ran for Congress against Adam Schiff in 2020, is currently a managing partner for a 30-lawyer law firm. He said he has been fighting against teaching critical race theory in K-12 classrooms for four years, even before the issue became widely known on a national scale.
Rachel Hamm, the sole candidate for secretary of state at the forum, said she is still upset that the Nov. 3, 2020 election “was stolen.”
Hamm, an author and speaker from Fresno who has never held a public office, said she has worked with top level cybersecurity experts and who counseled her and other “America First” candidates to become part of a coalition of Secretary of State candidates across the country.
