{"id":318091,"date":"2026-05-16T00:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/318091\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:59:53","slug":"get-ready-to-vote-view-candidate-forums-for-june-2-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/318091\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready to Vote: View Candidate Forums for June 2 Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GV Wire, in collaboration with the Community Media Access Collaborative and The Maddy Institute, held multiple candidate forums for the June 2 primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can watch and get a better understanding of the candidates\u2019 values, plans, and vision by clicking the links below.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno City Council District 1 Forum<\/p>\n<p>Monte Forkas, Business Owner<br \/>Rob Fuentes, SCCCD Trustee<br \/>Joe Hinojosa, Ada Coordinator<br \/>Naindeep Singh, Central Unified Trustee<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresno City Council District 3 Forum<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alvarez, Former School Trustee<br \/>Tiffany Apodaca, Crisis Response Manager<br \/>Joaquin Arambula, California Assembly Member<br \/>Keshia Thomas, Fresno Unified School Trustee<\/p>\n<p>Fresno City Council District 7 Forum<\/p>\n<p>Nav Gurm, Attorney<br \/>Ariana Martinez Lott, Community Activist<br \/>AJ Rassamni,Businessman<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County Supervisor District 1 Forum<\/p>\n<p>Lupe Flores, Mendota Unified Trustee<br \/>Omar Hernandez, WHC College Trustee<br \/>Mike Karbassi, Fresno City Councilmember<br \/>Maria Pacheco, Kerman Mayor<br \/>Eric Payne, Nonprofit Executive<br \/>Felipe Perez, Firebaugh Councilmember<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County Supervisor District 4 Forum<\/p>\n<p>Alma Beltran, Parlier Mayor<br \/>Rey Leon, Huron Mayor<br \/>Margaret Mims, Former Fresno County Sheriff<br \/>Nick Sahota, Selma Unified Trustee<\/p>\n<p>Fresno County Superintendent of Schools<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Johnny Alvarado, Former Parlier Unified Assistant Supt.<br \/>Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher, Fresno County Supt. Of Schools<br \/>Dr. Eimear O\u2019Brien, Former Clovis Unified Supt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GV Wire, in collaboration with the Community Media Access Collaborative and The Maddy Institute, held multiple candidate forums&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-318091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}