Campos vs. Chiu for CA Assembly: Progressives Raising Progressively More Campaign Money
David Chiu and David Campos are both 44 years old, and both left-wing Democrats currently serving on the SF Board of Supervisors while vying for the same CA District 17 seat. Both are attorneys who attended Harvard Law School. Both constantly use the same "San Francisco is not for sale" motto. Both are liberals who would ostensibly vote the exact same way on nearly every single issue brought to them in their state assembly tenure. These guys ran against each other in the exact same race just five months ago, but now they're doing it all again because California.
For you as a District 17 resident, it will likely make no difference whatsoever in your Sacramento representation whether David Chiu or David Campos wins this race.
Yet their two campaigns are pummeling your home address mailboxes with millions of dollars worth of histrionic campaign mailers explaining the menace to society that the other guy poses. And both of these so-called communists have raised unprecedented amounts of money to do so. (It should be noted, for argument's sake, that Chiu's signature legislation this year was in support of regulating and legalizing AirBnB, while Campos's signature legislation was to curb Ellis Act evictions by making them much more expensive for landlords.)
According to SFist research of the Secretary of State's campaign disclosure database, Campos-Chiu has the third-highest campaign donation total of any current CA assembly race this year, with about $1.8 million raised. Chiu has raised $1.05 million, while Campos has raised more than $728,000.
For comparison purposes, less than $200,000 was raised between Tom Ammiano and Jason Clark in the 2012 race for this very same seat. Running for this seat becomes nine times more expensive when its communist vs. communist, apparently.
http://sfist.com/2014/10/27/campos_vs_chiu_ii_progressives_rais_1.php