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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. But the BART board needs new blood, and we believe Josefowitz has the energy, ideas, and perspective to move the district in a more sustainable, accountable, and innovative direction. G, raising questions about his progressive credentials and political naïveté.įang deserves credit for supporting BART workers last year and with advocating for a BART extension to Ocean Beach. They and other Fang allies also highlighted Josefowitz’s opposition to CleanPowerSF and Prop. But SEIU Local 1021 strongly supported Fang, who walked the picket lines with striking BART workers last year. We got our wish when Josefowitz entered the race, did well in fundraising, and got lots of progressive political support.
It was a surprisingly tough choice, given how long we’ve been wanting someone to make a strong and well-funded challenge to Fang, San Francisco’s only Republican elected office holder and the longest serving director at an agency that has been hostile to worker safety reforms and meaningful oversight of the BART Police Department. Alongside our colleagues from down the hall at the San Francisco Examiner ( check out the Examiner’s endorsements here – they’re rather similar to ours), we spent a couple weeks interviewing candidates running for office in local and statewide races.Īnd here’s our interview with Nick Josefowitz.Īs we explain in our Endorsements issue, which hit newsstands yesterday, we decided to go with Josefowitz. Here’s your opportunity to listen in on the Bay Guardian endorsement interviews with candidates running for BART board. As we previously reported, incumbent James Fang faces a challenge from investor and former solar company entrepreneur Nicholas Josefowitz, a Harvard graduate in his early 30s. The race for BART board of directors in the upcoming November election has been highly contested this year.
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