After moving to the Bay Area in 2007, Meghann Adams bounced around: Oakland for a few months, the Mission for a year. Before the 42-year-old found her current home, she said, lowering her voice: “I lived in Noe Valley for a year… It’s not me.”
So, four years ago, she moved back to the grittier, working-class Tenderloin, where she’d felt more at home. Last week, she announced an even bigger move: her candidacy for California controller, the elected officer responsible for auditing the state’s finances and spending.
Adams, a school bus driver with graying hair and a gentle demeanor, doesn’t fit the stereotypical profile of a controller. Her arms are covered in tattoos, and on her wrists she wears two thick black leather cuffs, one adorned with a metal bird, the other fitted with an Apple Watch. At her campaign launch before a small gathering of supporters at City Hall last week, Adams sported a hot pink jumpsuit…