He's citing a news paper instead of talking to her directly. One line comments are not enough to understand the reasoning behind her statement.
And specifically avoiding partnering with someone when it could affect public policy is more than integrity - it is ego, and it is negligent to let that interfere when you're someone who has taken it upon themselves [yet again] to interject into the lives of homeless and routinely obstruct their ability to survive and establish some semblance of community so as to overcome the potential misery of the situation. 
I've seen this petty partisanship evolve in PSU students as they pretended to be politicians in a class called 'power games'. People forgot to have a REASON to act with or against one another, rather the means became the ends; agree with those who agree with you. Reason gets lost.