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 Ranked choice final/initial votes (details) 
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Noel Gallo
5716/4639 votes
54.6%
- Occupation: Education Management Advisor
  
Mario Juarez
 
4744/3785 votes
45.3%
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
 - Oakland Latino Merchants Association Vice President
 - Former Alameda County Chamber of Commerice Boardmember
 - Former Oakland Workforce Investment Boardmember
 - Former Budget Advisory Committee Member
 - Alameda County Democratic Party Committee Member
 - Sierra Club Boardmember
  
Priorities:
- Reduce crime by hiring more police officers and ensuring that they are from Oakland.
 - Create jobs by revitalizing our neighborhoods and making them more attractive to businesses.
 - Create a new services center to assist, not criminalize our troubled youth.
  
Dawn Kirsten McMahan
 
/2239/2067 votes
20.2%
- Occupation: Community Organizer
 - BA Theatre
 - Certificate in Substance Abuse Counseling
 - Executive Artistic Director, Pythia Arts Foundation
 - Creator and Director, the Phoenix Rising Homeless Project
 - Creator and Director, the Oak Tree Arts Center
 - Fundraising Committee member, Options Recovery Services in Berkeley
  
Priorities:
- Establish different values, with sensible, new options in resolving budget gridlock
 - Nurture effective community solutions to violence and prostitution, with a supportive, well-functioning police force
 - Develop our nonprofit service sector with support from for-profit businesses to provide more revenue, and community-focused jobs for the underserved.
  
Aracely "Shelly" Garza
 
/754/754 votes
6.7%
- Occupation: Business Person
 - General Manager - Micro Business Incubator
 - Exec. Assistant - City of Oakland -  CEDA
 - Exec. Assistant- City of Oakland - City Administrators Office- Deborah Edgerly
 - Exec. Assistant - City of Oakland - City Manager Robert Bobb
 - Chief of Staff - City of Oakland - At Large Councilmember Henry Chang
 - Community Organizer
  
Priorities:
- Public Safety - Create safer neighborhoods and business corridors
 - Economic Development - Grow, retain and bring in new business
 - Quality of Life - Create a multi-lingual satelite district office
  
  
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- Date: Monday, October 29, 2012
   Time: 9:00 - 10:00 PM
   Channel: KTOP Channel 10
   Sponsor: League of Women Voters of Oakland on October 4
 - Date: Saturday, October 27, 2012
   Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM
   Channel: KTOP Channel 10
   Sponsor: League of Women Voters of Oakland
 - Date: Monday, October 22, 2012
   Time: Approx. 5:30 - 6:30 PM
   Channel: KTOP, Channel 10
   Sponsor: League of Women Voters of Oakland
 - Date: Sunday, October 14, 2012
   Time: Approx. 9:00 - 10:00 PM
   Channel: KTOP, Channel 10
   Sponsor: League of Women Voters of Oakland
  
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