SF News The Incredibly Close And Shockingly Expensive Peskin/Christensen Race, By The Numbers Fans and hate-watchers of local politics have been following the race for District 3 supervisor since March, when former D3 Supe Aaron Peskin announced that he wanted to re-occupy the seat currently held
SF News Ed Lee's Big Bucks Donations By The Numbers Campaign finance rules limit the amount of money any one donor can give a candidate for San Francisco office. But those rules don't limit something called "behested payments," in which pols ask for,
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom And Kamala Harris Claim And Enjoy Extravagant Gifts When Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom isn't returning our phone calls or emails, he's claiming $400 Louis Vuitton pens and $300 Bulgari ties on file forms for California's Fair Political Practices Commission. Why? Well,
SF News Newsom Already Raises $15,000 by 1 p.m. After announcing his bid for candidacy for California Governor this morning, Mayor Gavin Newsom sent this message via Twitter, "We've raised $15,000 online today. Thank you for the support. Help us reach
SF News Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW "Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW," said Kate Kendall (Exective Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and one of the architects of the No On Prop 8
SF News Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Set To Make Foolish Run For CA Governor Noted Republican, Silicon Valley resident, and gay-marriage hater Meg Whitman is all set to take over Sacramento, at least according to an AP article. "The person was not authorized to talk publicly and
Arts & Entertainment Finally, Some Prop 8 Leaders Who Aren't Afraid of a Little Fight Back in October, the Yes on 8 "people" challenged California's Superintendent of Schools, Jack O'Connell, to a debate about gay marriage. According to Yes, even the remotest possibility of learning anything about gay
SF News Post-Mortem on Last Night's Prop 8 Post-Mortem Last night's Marriage Equality Community Forum was neat! It started with a brief hello from former New Paltz mayor Jason West. We tried to get a picture, but as you can see, he
misc More Prop 8 Protests Coming Up, but we See Worrisome Obstacles in the Immediate Future So what's the deal with the next round of Prop 8 protests? Oh, we are so glad you asked. The next big one in SF is this Saturday at 10:30am at City
misc Prop 8 Weirdos Send Weird Letter Containing Weirdness Here's what happened: Abbot & Associates, a realty company in San Diego, gave a generous chunk of change to the No On 8 campaign. (You should, too.) And then the Yes On 8
misc Donations to Yes-On-8 are Accidentally Going to Tasteful Gay Erotica Update: Complaints about the content of ads can be sent to Google here. The "people" behind Prop 8 -- the anti-marriage amendment -- may or may not be up to something sneaky. We
misc Princess Gloves Come off in No On 8 Fight The letter does not appear to be available online in text format -- only as a PDF that's missing its extension. So we've had to transcribe the good bits. "The advertisement strongly implies
SF News Clinton Campaign Using Black Panic Tactics? SFist's dear neighbor's, Wired, came across this racially explosive internet meme on the Daily Kos, which is set to have Democrats duking it out online. According to the Daily Kos, someone in the