![]() Listen to our full endorsement interview with David Chiu. Listen to our full endorsement interview with David Campos. That’s why he won the support of outgoing Assemblymember Tom Ammiano and a wide array of progressive entities. We have no such doubts about Campos, who has proven himself to be an effective and trustworthy advocate for renters, workers, consumers, and those who need support against powerful economic and political players. But Chiu’s neoliberal economic positions (from the Twitter tax break to a business tax reform that favored the tech industry) and willingness to cut deals with powerful interests rather than hold the progressive line in favor of vulnerable populations give us doubts about what he’d do in Sacramento. ![]() His opponent, David Chiu, is a skilled lawmaker and he wouldn’t be a bad legislator. San Francisco needs a strong, clear, passionate progressive advocate in Sacramento, particularly as we deal with growing pains and displacement challenges exacerbated by state housing, tax, and election laws and cutbacks in funding for transit and affordable housing. We’ll keep this brief because we already endorsed David Campos in the June primary election, but our enthusiasm for his candidacy has only grown since then. ![]() We’ll be posting the audio from most of those endorsement interviews at /Politics, so come listen in if you want more information. As usual, we did many hours of endorsement interviews with candidates and ballot measure proponents and opponents, along with additional research to arrive at our picks, some involving difficult decisions. Welcome to the November 2014 edition of a decades-long Bay Guardian tradition.
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