SF Politics Daniel Lurie Makes Candidacy Official For SF Mayor, Says There's 'Hunger For Change' Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
SF News CEO Trying To Raise $100 Million For Homeless Reportedly Considering Run For Mayor Candidates running for mayor of San Francisco in 2019 will not be running against Ed Lee, as Lee is termed out after this, his second full term. That means a large litter of
SF News Potential Successors To Mayor Ed Lee 'Saddling Up' For a few glorious days in early November, political wonks mulled a possible successor for current San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee after he was mentioned as a possible cabinet member for Hilary Clinton,
SF News Tech Writer Kara Swisher Announces Plan To Run For SF Mayor... In Seven Years Tech journalist and Re/code co-founder Kara Swisher has spent two decades sniffing around board rooms and harassing tech executives and venture capitalists over Instant Messenger, and now she's looking to pivot into
SF News Shadowy Group With Alleged Lee Ties Seeks To Scare Progressives With Term Limit Amendment When once and again San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin announced his run to reclaim his Board seat last spring, some asked how he could do that, given that he's already served the legally-allowed
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Third Inauguration Ceremony Clouded By Allegations Of Corruption, Isolation An inauguration of a city's mayor is supposed to be a time of celebration, of excitement for the future, and of pride and joy. But when you're Ed Lee, announcing your third inauguration
SF News How Many Ranked-Choice Votes Would It Take To Unseat Ed Lee? Tomorrow is election day (you're going to vote, right?) and a couple of controversial ballot propositions have received a lot of (deserved) attention. As a possible voter you have been asked to make
SF News Video: Actor Danny Glover Shoots Commercial In Support Of Props F And I Award winning actor/San Francisco native Danny Glover has never been one to shy away from public comment on local issues, as you can see from items like his impromptu appearance in a
SF News Writer Broke-Ass Stuart Running For Mayor In 'Journalistic Experiment' Stuart Schuffman, best known by his writing moniker and eponoymous website Broke-Ass Stuart, formally announced today via his column for the San Francisco Examiner that he is running for Mayor, challenging Ed Lee
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News San Francisco's Jet-Setting Mayor's Travel Expenses Close In On Six Figures It's good being mayor of San Francisco! Sure, there's lots of boring meetings, and you have to work on the weekends sometimes, but there are perks—perks like the over $95,000 of
SF News Poll: Choose San Francisco's Next Mayor If the election were held tomorrow, who would you select as your next San Francisco mayor? We saw D11 Supervisor John Avalos officially toss his hat into the mayoral ring on Monday. He
SF News John Avalos, The Great Prog Hope, To Run For Mayor District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, 47, will announce today his plan to run for Mayor of San Francisco. A California native (a rarity within progressive circles), Avalos was born in Wilmington in Los
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Would Be a Real Mayor If We Voted Today, Poll Shows In an exclusive poll conducted by CBS5 and SurveyUSA (sounds official!), the local news station found that Ed Lee would be moving in to the Mayor's office for a full term if we
SF News Another S.F. Mayoral Candidate: David Chiu Board of Supervisors President and Boston native David Chiu, 40, will toss his hat into mayoral ring today. He plans on making it official at around 11 a.m.-ish. Chiu, if you
SF News Mayor Ed Lee's Facebook Page Did we say Ed Lee had no Facebook page? Scratch that. San Francisco's nascent mayor does, in fact, have a Facebook page. A fan page, actually, with not much on it. Yet. Let's
SF News San Francisco's New Mayor: Ed Lee Ed Lee was sworn in as San Francisco's first Chinese-American mayor on Tuesday. In a speech after the ceremony, Lee promised to be a mayor "for everyone." What's in store for San Francisco?
SF News Watch the Special Interim Mayor Selection Meeting Live Now As Eve Batey pointed out in today's SF Appeal's daily newsletter, the SF Board of Supervisors just began their special meeting to choose an interim mayor for SF, which you can watch online
SF News SF Mayoral Watch: Waiting, Delays, Voting, & Hand-Wringing Who's going to be the next mayor of San Francisco? That's the question on the minds of literally hundreds of San Franciscans. It's goes something like this: Newsom wants his replacement to be
SF News Supervisors Would Rather Not Pick an Interim Mayor Yet Last night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to postpone nominating an interim mayor. So the current board will have one last chance to pick San Francisco's Mayor for 2011 when they meet
SF News BoS President David Chiu, Your Ideal Interim Mayor We asked who you wanted as the interim San Francisco mayor yesterday. A decent pool of 560 responded to our unscientific poll. The winner? David Chiu. Behold: 1) Board of Supervisors President David
SF News Poll: Select Your Interim S.F. Mayor Did you hear? Mayor Gavin Newsom will be your next Lieutenant Governor. (Who knew a complex city like San Francisco, one balancing precariously on a precipice, could also make for a perfect rung
SF News Oakland Mayoral Race: Quan Takes Lead Over Perata Although they won't name a mayor until later this week, it seems likely that we'll be typing "Oakland Mayor Quan" for the next four years. According to reports, Oakland Councilwoman Jean Quan might
misc This Week in Willie Brown by Andrew Dalton It's Friday, so if you're like us you're probably wondering what former Mayor of San Francisco (slash San Francisco's Mayor) Willie Brown was up to all week. Luckily, he's been
SF News Dennis Herrera Running for Mayor It's official: Dennis Herrera is running for mayor of San Francisco. We just spoke with his office who confirmed that, yes, the San Francisco City Attorney will make a go of it. Herrera