CSUN students host forum in ‘Berman-Sherman’ race
Four of the six candidates in what is widely known as the Berman-Sherman congressional race squared off Monday night, thanks to the Associated Students of Cal State Northridge’s Big Politics series.
Besides Democratic Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, who are engaged in a nationally watched, high-spending contest for a San Fernando Valley seat, Republicans Susan Shelley and Mark Reed participated in the candidates’ forum at the Valley Performing Arts Center.
Forum planners said they invited the “leading” candidates, which meant no spot on stage for Democrat Vince Gilmore or Republican Navraj Singh.
The two-hour forum was one of several held since new political maps last year put Berman and Sherman in the same district and set up the contentious contest in the strongly Democratic district.
-- Jean Mearl, Los Angeles Times