Many of leaders of San Diego’s Democratic Party have decided against taking a position on rent control.

Proposition 10, which would ease state restrictions on how cities can enact rent control, has threatened to pit Democrats against each other. Seeing as much, Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assemblyman Todd Gloria and San Diego City Council President Myrtle Cole have each said it is not a topic on which they care to opine.

But at a forum Thursday night hosted by the San Diego Organizing Project and conducted almost entirely in Spanish, two candidates for the City Council’s open District 8 seat bucked their party’s leaders and demonstrated some political bravery.

In a race where both candidates have outlined similar priorities, their difference provides a clear distinction that might help voters make a decision.

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