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California mayors back Clinton
Bee Capitol Bureau staff
Published 3:17 pm PST Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Reminding California Democrats that many of the state party's institutional leaders are backing Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom cruised the state Wednesday to support her campaign.
The two Democrats, potential gubernatorial candidates in 2010, spoke at Quinn Cottages in North Sacramento, a transitional housing complex designed to move the city's homeless off the streets.
Villaraigosa said he believes the upcoming election is so important that he's spending his time in, of all places, Sacramento.
"For someone who has been to Iowa four times, New Hampshire for five days, to Nevada five times and now on a tour of Northern and Southern California, the question you have to ask is, why would the mayor of the second-largest city of California be here in Sacramento today?" Villaraigosa said. "And the answer is, this is the most important election of my lifetime."
Newsom called his choice of Clinton "a no-brainer" and said she impressed him immediately by discussing San Francisco's homeless challenges rather than asking for his donor lists like other candidates.
"There's one candidate that stands out disproportionately, someone who understands these issues intimately, not just intellectually, someone who was there on the front lines when her husband was president of the United States ... and that's Hillary Clinton," Newsom said.
Villaraigosa also praised Clinton for her economic stimulus plan and her work on solving homelessness.
They were joined by Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo, Sacramento County Supervisor Roger Dickinson, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, Fullerton Mayor Sharon Quirk and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco.
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