Campbell Mayor Sergio Lopez never wanted to be in the spotlight. He’s the son of Mexican immigrants who migrated to Campbell from Michoacán, speaking little English. After his parents lost their restaurant and had to foreclose on their home during the Great Recession, he felt compelled to enter public service to tackle cost-of-living challenges at their roots.
As Campbell’s first Latino mayor and one of the VTA board of directors’ youngest chairs at 29, Lopez is aiming to make that happen.
“That experience awakened in me (the question), what happened to get us to this point? Because we did everything right,” he told San José Spotlight. “We played by the rules and the system still didn’t work.”…