Campos supporters hit Chiu, consultant with ethics complaint

Supervisor David Chiu A liberal political group that has endorsed Assembly candidate David Campos filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against his Assembly race opponent, David Chiu, and Chiu’s consulting firm, charging that the firm violated city ethics laws by helping organize support for legislative proposal that Chiu authored. A similar complaint was filed later in the day against District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen, who is also represented by the same campaign consultant. At issue is the involvement of 50+1 Strategies LLC — a political consulting and organizing firm co-founded by Chiu’s campaign consultant, Nicole Derse — in coordinating support for a law that would legalize and regulate short term rentals