"After moving to the Bay Area in 2007, Meghann Adams bounced around: Oakland for a few months, the Mission for a year. Before the 42-year-old found her current home, she said, lowering her voice: "I lived in Noe Valley for a year... It's not me." So, four years ago, she moved back to the grittier, working-class Tenderloin, where she'd felt more at home."
""Politicians on both sides of the aisle would have us believe that we're not educated enough to understand budgets, laws, or tough decisions. ... They tell us, 'you couldn't possibly understand,'" Adams said, referring to herself and her fellow blue-collar workers. "I'm here to tell you that's a lie. You are enough. We are enough.""
"Adams is one of a slate of socialist candidates in San Francisco neighborhoods running for state office who are hoping to shake up California politics. They say Democrats who have held power for years have not served the people. Ramsey Robinson, another Tenderloin resident and social worker at a Bayview school, is running for governor, and Mission District public school teacher and teachers union vice president Frank Lara is running for state superintendent."
Meghann Adams moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and lived in Oakland, the Mission and Noe Valley before returning to the Tenderloin four years ago. Adams works as a school bus driver and presents a nontraditional political image with tattoos, leather cuffs and a hot pink jumpsuit at her campaign launch. Adams seeks the office of California controller on a socialist platform aiming to empower blue-collar residents and challenge entrenched Democratic power. She frames budget and policy understanding as accessible to working-class voters and rejects elite assumptions that they cannot grasp complex fiscal issues. Other local socialist candidates are running for statewide offices alongside her.
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