In case you haven't heard, about 900 people are running for Supervisor in District 5, the district recently supervised by Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and temporarily covered the past eleven months by Christine Olague. And as the inside-inside baseball of it all continues, Mirkarimi's wife and continued champion Eliana Lopez has made a video supporting Olague, and denouncing her detractors, who Lopez (and likely many S.F. progressives) say are "billionaires who don't even live in District 5."
Just to back up, last week we saw new allegations surface about the character of candidate Julian Davis (who was previously called out as having been a bit of a sexual aggressor in his past, perhaps mostly whilst drunk); and Mirkarimi's D5 neighbor and domestic violence whistle-blower Ivory Madison came out with a video denouncing Olague for her vote to reinstate Mirkarimi. "Voters need to know what Olague did," Madison says. "I'm voting for anyone on the ballot but Christina Olague."
Now, given that several others on the ballot would not be so friendly to the interests of these billionaires, we'd urge some skepticism about Lopez's claims the progressive bloc continues to want to sweep aside the concerns about the domestic violence issue, characterizing at as pure smokescreen from a vast moderate conspiracy, whereas for Madison it sounds like that is the core issue. And if billionaires were funding this ad, wouldn't they have her endorsing someone in specific?
Furthermore, you have candidates John Rizzo and Thea Selby, both of whom are endorsed by the Guardian and others, whose supporters have been trying to attack yet another candidate, London Breed, who they say will be in the pocket of landlords and will help to destroy rent control.
Then you have candidates Andrew "Ellard" Resignato, Daniel Everett, and Hope Johnson who have even less name recognition but who will help to split the votes.
In any event, you can bet the ranked-choice clusterfuck here to go on for weeks. Best of luck, District 5, and to all the candidates who will probably need a margin of about 6 votes to win this thing.
