6 CA Gubernatorial Candidates To Appear In San Diego Forum

SAN DIEGO, CA -- Six candidates for California governor, including Antonio Villaraigosa and John Chiang, are expected to appear in San Diego this month for a forum. The forum, however, will not include leading candidate Gavin Newsom.

The forum will be held at the 2018 California Council for the Social Studies annual conference, and will be co-hosted by The San Diego Union-Tribune and ABC 10News. Scheduled to take place at 10:30 a.m. March 25 at the Town and Country Resort and Conference Center, it will also feature the following candidates:

· Travis Allen (Republican) Member, California State Assembly
· John Cox (Republican) Business Executive
· Delaine Eastin (Democrat) Former State Superintendent of Public Instruction
· Doug Ose (Republican) Business Owner/Former Member of Congress

The forum, which is expected to attract more than 1,000 attendees, will be moderated by Matt Hall, the opinion director for the Union-Tribune. Candidates will field questions from a panel of journalists that includes: Chris Reed, deputy editorial and opinion editor for the Union-Tribune, and Michael Smolens, columnist for the Union-Tribune, and Lindsey Peña, anchor for 10News, according to a press release.

For more information about the free forum, go to https://ccss.org/Gubernatorial-Candidates-Forum.

--Photo: California Democratic gubernatroial candidate and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa speaks in conversation as part of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) 2017 Speaker Series on California's Future on June 6, 2017 in San Francisco, California. Villaraigosa spoke with PPIC president Mark Baldassare about his vision for California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)