By Guy Marzorati, KQED News Fix
For nearly a year, candidates for the open 15th District state Assembly seat in the East Bay have been raising money, knocking on doors and participating in an endless series of debates and forums.
On Saturday, they had to put their stump speeches aside and focus on two ideas that may seem out of place during campaign season: empathy and caring.
The goal of the Radical Empathy Forum was to get candidates in one of the state’s most competitive legislative races to model active listening and to discuss how to build a more caring and empathic culture.
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