Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election
It's our column about the District 6 election! This week's episode: Everybody Hates The Numbers.
The Chron's finally paying attention to the Board of Supes races -- choosing to kick off its "we profile the candidates" series with the "South American country" that we call District 6. (they call the district South American because of the great disparity between poor and rich, and not just because of the tasty Peruvian restaurants on Mission Street.) As for us, we're giving the Chron's article our patented Swells By The Numbers treatment!
The District: 6.
Number of incumbents: 1. (Chris Daly).
Number of challengers: 7.
Number of challengers actually named in the article: 3 (Rob Black, Matt Drake, Manuel Jimenez).
Percentage of registered voters in the district: 49.3% (34,570/approx. 70,000 residents).
Voter minority count: 16% Latino, 38% white, 9% African-American, 22% Asian.
Getty v. Traina: 1-0 (Gavin Newsom has endorsed Rob Black.)
More stats after the jump!
Amount of money Daly negotiated for low-income housing in the Trinity Plaza development deal: $50 million.
The year that South Beach condo owner and Rob Black voter Jim Ash, who feels that Daly can't represent both the Tenderloin and Mission Bay, moved into the District: 2000.
The percentage shift of the District from lower-income residents to high-income, more conservative local voters: nothing more than a percentage point or two.
Percentage by which Daly won the district in 2002: 51%.
The percentage of the time Rob Black says he agrees with Daly: 90%.
Number of mentions of Daly's hair-trigger temper: 0. Bummer!