Anyone wanting a moderate, bipartisan representative to the U.S. Congress should read the Tribune’s Oct. 14 endorsement of Lois Capps. In appraising Abel Maldonado, The Tribune accurately points out numerous examples of Maldonado’s attempts to balance legitimate competing interests.

Unfortunately, The Tribune interprets this as seeing things in “black-and-white,” and instead prefers Representative Capps’ 97 percent straight party-line voting record for the last three Congresses as the better approach to “moderate” and bipartisan representation of all the interests of California.