Armed with $1M war chest, Bay Area attorney enters race to replace Swalwell

FREMONT — A Fremont lawyer with a million-dollar war chest is challenging five other candidates in the race to fill U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s open East Bay congressional seat.

“My goal is to get more people involved in the process,” Rakhi Israni told Bay Area News Group on Monday. “People want fresh thinking in Congress.”

Israni, 52, is a married mother of four who has lived in Fremont for over 20 years after relocating from Houston, Texas, to start an educational company called Excel Test Prep.