Authorities say a Republican House candidate in California narrowly escaped an attempted stabbing after he was confronted by a man brandishing a switchblade on Sept. 9.
Deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office were alerted to the incident at 3:45 p.m. at the Castro Valley Fall Festival. Congressional hopeful Rudy Peters was at his festival booth, when 35-year-old Farzad Fazeli approached him in an “aggressive manner” and “made disparaging remarks about his political party and elected officials,” the department said.
