Oakland Mayor's Race candidate Joe Tuman and this blogger met last Thursday at Merritt Station at 614 Grand Avenue for this interview. It came at a time when Tuman, like this week, is riding a high of name recognition thanks to Grand Lake Theater Owner Allan Michaan, and a powerful word-of-mouth campaign on the part of people who've met Tuman. The kind, seemingly mild-mannered San Francisco State Professor of Communications has changed the climate of the race from what some have seen as a three-person battle in ten candidates, to a four-person contest among the same field. Tuman did this even with a late start in the campaign. He says the campaign is still "going well. We managed to get a co-endorsement from the East Bay Express , and a second-place endorsement from The Oakland Tribune . It was a good boost," Tuman said. "I don't think people vote on the basis of newspaper endorsements. But it has added to the buzz around the campaign." T
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