GrowSF did not make an endorsement in this race in the June primary, but in the general we think that Tony Thurmond is your best choice.

Both candidates are flawed, but Thurmond easily comes out on top when considering his competitor. In particular, we found his competitor's answers to our questionnaire both troubling and frustratingly vague. He focuses on throwing out decades of institutional knowledge in favor of his ill-defined platform without stating what that actually means or what, in particular, he wants to change. This sounds like a recipe for revolution, not reform.

Thurmond may not be perfect, but he doesn't want to burn the system down. Education in California needs a lot of improvement, but we won't get there by tearing it apart.