Deborah Schwartz Says Das Williams Pressed Her to Quit Mayor’s Race

This article was originally published on Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts.

In a private email, SB mayoral candidate Deborah Schwartz told key supporters over the weekend that Supervisor and local Democratic honcho Das Williams urged her to drop out the race and back incumbent Cathy Murillo — then asked if the party could “offer” her something in return.

Schwartz, writing to board members of the independent Democratic Women’s club, which has endorsed her, portrayed Williams’ bid to get her to throw her support behind the party-endorsed Murillo as part of a broader, “ugly” and “shameful” effort to vilify challengers in the campaigns for mayor and two council seats.