Editorial: Campos can deliver for AD 17
He may be the underdog in the race for the vacant 17th Assembly District seat, but former supervisor David Campos knows what it's like to fight for causes he believes in.
In this case, he's fighting for not only the LGBTQ community — Campos is a gay Latino man — but for all of his would-be constituents in what has become in these closing weeks a slugfest between him and his opponent, District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney.
We wish that wasn't happening, but negative attacks work, research has found, and candidates can't seem to help themselves.During last month's primary, Campos and Haney were the top two finishers, resulting in their square off in the special general election April 19.
Mail-in ballots have been sent out and early voting has begun at San Francisco City Hall. The winner gets to finish the term — through December — of former assemblymember David Chiu, who resigned last November when he became San Francisco's first Asian American city attorney.
