Congressional Debate to Stream Live on Web

Candidates in California's Second Congressional District race — an area that includes Novato — will square off at a debate that will be available as a webcast.

The debate is Wednesday, Oct. 5, and will take place at Pixel Corps, a Petaluma video production and training company.

The new Congressional District 2 spans the California coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border, part of which is the former District 6, represented by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, who is retiring this year.

There are already seven candidates vying for her seat, including Assemblymember Jared Huffman, Petaluma Councilwoman Tiffany Renee, media critic and author Norman Solomon and Marin County Supervisor Susan Adams, who will attend the debate. One Republican candidate, Daniel Roberts, a Vietnam veteran and president of a San Francisco investment company, will also attend.

The debate will have a small in-house audience of about 20 people, but will be viewable online at cncm.us. It will also be broadcast on public access and commercial stations and highlighted on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Part of the reason organizers wanted to do it via the web was to give audiences greater access, said Jason Davies, debate co-host and vice president of business development at Bias, an audio software company.

"It's such a big district, so we really want to increase the reach," he said.