The tension between city council candidates Marisa Alcaraz and Imelda Padilla is ratcheting up, because they seem so alike.
Advertisement, with only 11.4% of voters turning out, and will head into a June 27 runoff. Their choice for campaign headquarters? Plaza del Valle.
They’re each running on a platform of public safety, reform and investment in long-neglected neighborhoods. They’re both Democrats, credit their parents for their desire to make a difference in the world, and count prominent Valley Latinas as supporters —The differences between the two candidates are few but telling. Padilla — who describes herself as a — is a longtime community organizer in the Valley who says her people-power approach is the type of outsider outlook that District 6 needs.
When I arrived to meet Padilla at 9 in the morning, the promise and problems of District 6 were already apparent.
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