"Not a cigarette paper's worth of difference"

All the candidates support the high-speed rail project

Willie Brown in this morning's Chronicle:

London Breed backers are targeting former state Sen. Mark Leno for supposedly benefiting from the “backroom deal” that bounced Breed out of the acting mayor’s job. Leno notes that Breed is being helped out by a super PAC and declares that “big money” needs to stay out of the race.

And both Leno and Angela Alioto want “acting mayor” — the title Breed held at the mayoral campaign filing deadline — to be struck from her ballot designation.

The real story behind all this is that there isn’t a cigarette paper’s worth of difference between the candidates on the major issues.

All are calling for more affordable housing. All are calling for compassionate but firm care for the homeless. All say auto break-ins have to stop and that traffic is terrible.

But none of them has a concrete answer for how they will do any of it. It’s all about them — and none of it is about us.

Rob's comment:

Brown is right. That's also why city politicians and their supporters resort to playing the race card: there are few significant political differences between them, since they are all liberal Democrats.