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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - As the clip ticks down until the Nov. 5 General Election, voters successful Fresno County's District 3 volition person to determine betwixt a erstwhile brag and worker for who volition correspond them connected the Fresno County Board of Supervisors.
The matchup betwixt incumbent Sal Quintero and his erstwhile main of staff, Fresno City Councilmember Luis Chavez.
Quintero was elected to the Board of Supervisors successful 2017 and antecedently served arsenic the Fresno City Councilmember successful District 5. He shared with america his "why" down his archetypal ascent into politics.
"I had an aboriginal involvement successful politics, precocious schoolhouse days, and kept carrying over. But my involvement was, 'How tin I assistance the assemblage to amended itself?'" Quintero said.
Chavez, a erstwhile educator, and Fresno Unified School Board trustee, took implicit his Quintero's spot successful District 5 erstwhile helium near bureau for the county. He besides shared the "why" down his governmental career.
"I've ne'er been an bureau idiosyncratic sitting down a table oregon a computer. I've ever been a radical person. I emotion going retired there, gathering people, much than thing trying to marque our assemblage beryllium a amended place," said Chavez.
Both men, Democrats, elaborate their emotion to talk straight to assemblage members, particularly those wrong their district. Chavez has walked door-to-door successful the lead-up to the predetermination to marque introductions, and to perceive concerns and ideas. Quintero says helium is arrogant to springiness his compartment fig retired to anyone successful the territory and has vowed to instrumentality missed calls to immoderate who scope out.
As for main issues, Quintero says helium seeks to proceed the cleanable up of trash successful the region if elected to different term, and says helium has his sights acceptable connected the completion of roadworthy and sidewalk repairs successful areas similar Calwa.
"A full of $7 cardinal for this community," Quintero said arsenic helium shared much astir his and Congressman Jim Costa's efforts to bring infrastructure dollars to Calwa. "We're present doing plans to upgrade each that and doing the engineering work, everything that needs to get done and I'm precise arrogant of that."
Chavez says if helium is elected to office, helium would besides purpose to prioritize roadworthy and infrastructure repairs and says helium would besides purpose to enactment with the City of Fresno connected the stateless crisis
"How large would it beryllium if the metropolis and the region came unneurotic and built 1 shelter?" asked Chavez. "We person the capableness but oftentimes, you know, personalities and egos get successful the way. I privation to bash distant with that. I privation to marque definite 1 of the archetypal things we bash arsenic a metropolis and a region is we person a associated gathering together."
We besides asked each campaigner wherefore they judge they are the champion prime for voters successful this election.
Quintero says his acquisition makes him the strongest choice.
"Over the years moving with non-profits, but besides the clip that I served connected the Fresno City Council, present the Board of Supervisors, it's fixed maine the position from some sides to however I'm capable to assistance the community," said Quintero. "Plus, the territory that I'm capable to assistance connected the Board of Supervisors, a ample information of that I correspond connected the Board of Supervisors, a ample information of that is portion of my Fresno City Council district," Quintero said.
As for Chavez, helium says voters judge it's clip for a change.
"It's clip for that... his procreation to walk the torch to the caller generation," Chavez told us. "Problems person changed. Issues person changed. The stateless contented is not the aforesaid that it was 10, 15 years ago. The foster attraction contented is not the aforesaid that it was a decennary ago. So, I deliberation that it's clip for that caller procreation to measurement up," Chavez said.
