Gioia faces challenge from Barnett in contest for CoCo County District 1 supervisor seat

John Gioia is a fixture in West Contra Costa County. The District 1 supervisor has had the job since he was first elected in 1998 and won’t be easy to unseat. Which doesn’t mean Hulan Barnett won’t try.

The Richmond resident and math teacher at Antioch’s Dallas Ranch Middle School has long been a critic of Gioia’s, to the point of encouraging followers on social media to show up at Gioia’s campaign events and “raise hell.”