(Editor's note: Oakland Local and Make Oakland Better Now - MOBN - have teamed up to take a close look at the accuracy of candidates’ response to an online questionnaire from MOBN. We want to know if candidates are being truthful and accurate in their responses, or are they veering from facts and offering opinion without any solutions?

Each day, Oakland Local will run a fact checking story on seven important questions.)

Tuesday’s Question: How will our next mayor set budget priorities?

Oakland’s mayoral candidates provided a wide variety of responses. Some response were detailed, some were brief. Others were ambitious or focused more on the budget problems than voicing detailed solutions.

When asked why she is running for mayor, Jean Quan told Oakland Local, “I think that this city deserves to have someone who really wants to be mayor. Who really wants to be hands-on. Who is willing to put that kind of effort on a ground up basis and isn’t just using it as a stepping stone up or down in politics.”

For the next few days, we’ll be posting perspectives on two upcoming measures on the ballot in Oakland: one, Measure BB, would alter a 2004 parcel tax called Measure Y, which has provided funding to violence-prevention programs and the police department in Oakland.

Don:   It's really great that you believe in Oakland, and you want us to believe in Oakland, too!