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Four years ago, this editorial board endorsed Kimberly Calvin for San Bernardino City Council.

At the time, were impressed by her obvious devotion to improving the state of affairs for her community.  This came through not only in our interview with her at the time, but also from her work as executive director of the Akoma Unity Center, which offers educational and other enriching opportunities to young people in San Bernardino.

She narrowly won election over Councilmember Bessine Richard, an ally of the disgraced then-Mayor John Valdivia.

Four years later, Councilmember Calvin has been an outspoken advocate for Ward 6 and the city as a whole. She can rightly tout a number of accomplishments while on the council. This includes securing funding for local park upgrades, the completion of the State Street expansion and the spurring of much needed new housing development.

She wants to keep that going, and more. She’s eager to push her colleagues to more swiftly get downtown San Bernardino revitalization underway. She wants to see more housing of all kinds get built. She supports community policing to foster trust and public safety. And she wants the city to promote the trades for young people for whom college isn’t necessarily the right way forward.

Kimberly Calvin’s voice on the council is badly needed to keep the city moving in the right direction. However, there is one unavoidable stumbling block that we hope she and her supporters can overcome. Due to clear mistakes by her campaign, her name is not on the ballot. To re-elect her, Kimberly Calvin’s name will need to be written in and we encourage people to do that.

On the ballot are, incidentally, former Councilmember Richard and Mario Flores, who is backed by Mayor Helen Tran. Among the narratives of this election is that Mayor Tran is trying to create a faction loyal to her on the council, much as former Mayor Valdivia did. Flores said he chose to run for his own reasons. Whatever the truth of the idea that Mayor Tran is trying to pick her council, we didn’t hear much from Flores to make us prefer him over Calvin. He knows city government-speak, but failed to articulate a compelling case for himself over Calvin.

Write-in Kimberly Calvin.