Audie Bock

Audie Elizabeth Bock (born October 15, 1946) 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.

She 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.

Early life and career Bock was born in New York and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of Charles K. Bock and Felicia Gressitt Bock. She attended Berkeley High School. She then attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1967.

While an assemblywoman, she helped secure funding for numerous park projects, including restoration of the shores of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

On October 7, 1999, 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. During this same period, however, her acceptance of $500 campaign contributions from Chevron and Tosco drew criticism from within the Green Party. Running as an independent, Bock lost the November 2000 election and afterwards re-registered as a Democrat.

Additional runs for office 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. Bock received 22,845 votes (46%), finishing second behind interim incumbent Paul Hodges.

In 2012, Bock ran successfully for a four-year term on the Board of the Fairview Fire Protection District.

In 2014, Bock ran for the California Senate in the 10th State Senate District, running as having No Party Preference. She came in 5th place, with 4% of the vote.

Subsequently, she relocated to Florida and ran for the Sarasota Soil and Water Conservation District in 2018, winning office unopposed.