How will the next Santa Cruz City Council look? What priorities matter downtown and on the Westside?
Here, Lookout offers short videos from the two District 4 candidates, incumbent Scott Newsome, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer, and Hector Marin, a community activist and public school educator. We asked each candidate the same five questions. We think hearing from the candidates directly – in addition to the rest of our Election 2026 coverage – will give readers a sense of who they are, what they stand for and how they could shape the future of the city. We include their responses here in alphabetical order.
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