两位顶尖候选人都承诺代表消费者与公司“斗争”。但他们对于这意味着什么意见不一。
Both top candidates promise to “fight” corporations on consumers’ behalf. They don’t agree on what that means.
加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托——进步派人士发现了一个机会，可以从建制派民主党人手中夺取全国最有权力的监管职位之一。他们请来了参议员伯尼·桑德斯帮忙。
SACRAMENTO, California — Progressives have spotted an opening to seize one of the most powerful regulatory posts in the country from establishment Democrats. They’re bringing in Sen. Bernie Sanders to help.
“人们厌倦了这些亿万富翁的贪婪，厌倦了他们破坏民主，”桑德斯（佛蒙特州独立派）周六在旧金山的一次集会上大声说道。这是他加州三站行程的第一站，旨在为对亿万富翁征税和一批进步派候选人争取支持。其中主要人物包括：民主党人、前旧金山官员简·金，她正在竞选州保险专员。
“People are sick and tired of the greed of these billionaires, tired of them undermining democracy,” thundered Sanders (I-Vt.) at a Saturday rally in San Francisco, the first of three California stops to whip up support for a tax on billionaires and a clutch of progressive candidates. Among the headliners: Jane Kim, a Democrat and former San Francisco official running for state insurance commissioner.
对于进步派来说，保险专员职位代表着一个机会，可以在全国人口最多的州中，在一个有影响力——尽管鲜为人知——的职位上改变政策。这也为民主党内的一个派系提供了另一条通往权力的途径，该派系在今年州长竞选中失利，因为亿万富翁汤姆·斯泰尔在初选中落败。
For progressives, the insurance post represents a chance to transform policy in an influential — if little-known — role in the nation’s most populous state. And it offers an alternative route to power for a wing of the Democratic Party that flopped in this year’s gubernatorial race after billionaire Tom Steyer lost in the primary.