Sandre Swanson and Nancy Skinner are both good candidates for Senate, so I had a hard choice. I chose Mr. Swanson because I remember when he was in the state assembly he lost chairmanship of a committee rather than vote against his conscience. Karen Bass threatened him with that loss but in the end he said so be it, he must stand on principle. .
"“I explained to her ahead of time that the budget was going in a direction I had serious problems with,” Swanson said Wednesday. “There were so many penal- ties and take-aways from working families. I feel good about the votes I cast.”
Several components of the budget deal were particularly onerous, he said, includ- ing one bill that would have capped hourly wages at $9.50 for in-home care workers and frozen payments to the poor, elder- ly and disabled, which will cost Alameda County upward of $25 million in funding.
“To ask members not to protest these cuts — it’s a violation of my principles when I know workers are there to serve. "
Karen Green
Alameda
510 865 0460
PS The fact that he is endorsed by our very own rock star Barbara Lee is an added bonus.
