Audie Elizabeth Bock was born on October 15,1946 and is an American film scholar and politician who served in the California State Assembly from 1999 to 2000, and was elected to the Sarasota County, Florida Soil and Water Conservation District in 2018.
19 Facts About Audie Bock
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Audie Bock was elected in 1999 as a Green Party member during a special election for Oakland's 16th Assembly District, but switched to the Democratic Party after losing the 2000 election.
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Audie Bock stayed at Harvard to receive a PhD, where she wrote a dissertation on Japanese film directors.
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Audie Bock served as an assistant producer on Kurosawa's 1980 film Kagemusha.
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Audie Bock translated Akira Kurosawa's partial autobiography, Something Like An Autobiography, which was published in 1983 by Vintage International.
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Audie Bock has taught college classes, as well as teaching throughout Hayward as a K-12 and adult school substitute teacher.
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Audie Bock holds a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of San Francisco.
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Audie Bock served as a volunteer on Ralph Nader's 1996 campaign for the presidency.
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Audie Bock was elected to the Assembly in a 1999 special election after the mid-term resignation of US Congressman Ron Dellums.
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Audie Bock won the 1999 election by a combination of circumstances.
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Audie Bock was outspent by Harris by a margin of better than 16 to 1.
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On October 7,1999, Audie Bock left the Green Party and re-registered as "Decline to State" so that she would not have to run in the March 2000 blanket primary and thus not have to compete directly against her Democratic opponent Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan until the November 2000 General Election, by when she presumably would have had more time to fundraise.
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Audie Bock announced her run against Barbara Lee in the 2002 primary as a Democrat, arguing that Lee's vote against the war in Afghanistan was unpatriotic.
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Audie Bock later withdrew from the race before the filing deadline.
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In 2003, Audie Bock ran for Governor of California in the 2003 California recall.
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Audie Bock received 3,358 votes, placing 22nd in a field of 135 candidates.
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Audie Bock received 22,845 votes, finishing second behind interim incumbent Paul Hodges.
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In 2012, Audie Bock ran successfully for a four-year term on the Board of the Fairview Fire Protection District.
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In 2014, Audie Bock ran for the California Senate in the 10th State Senate District, running as having No Party Preference.