SF Politics Trouble for Trumper Silicon Valley Billionaires: Project 2025 Is Actually Pretty Anti-Tech Even though some of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capitalists are jumping on the Trump train, the Project 2025 that would apparently guide a second Trump term says that tech companies "prey on children, like drug dealers."
SF Politics RFK Jr.’s Bay Area Veep Pick Says Campaign Might Soon Throw In the Towel and Endorse Trump The RFK Jr. presidential campaign must be feeling bearish about their chances, as his VP pick Nicole Shanahan just admitted on a podcast that they’re thinking of quitting and endorsing Trump.
SF Politics $20 Billion Bay Area Affordable Housing Bond Killed Off at Last Minute, As It Seemed Unlikely to Pass What would have been the biggest housing bond in California history has already been yanked off the ballot three months before the election, and Bay Area voters will not be voting on a $20 billion affordable housing bond in November’s elections.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Rolled Into SF For Sunday Fundraiser, Pulled in $12 Million, Drew More Than 100 Pro-Palestine Protesters Vice president and now-Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris held her first SF fundraiser since she was catapulted to the top of the ticket on Sunday, and raised an estimated $12 million, but also faced nearly 150 protesters calling out the Israeli attacks on Gaza.
SF Politics Breed Bounces Back Big-Time With Sizable Lead In New Mayoral Race Poll Is it the Kamala effect? Whatever it may be, Mayor London Breed is up by eight points in the five-way race for mayor, according to the latest poll from the Chronicle, but ranked-choice voting could scramble these results entirely.
SF Politics Fundraising Totals Show Lurie Way Ahead In Mayoral Race Money, Lurie and Farrell Argue About It on Twitter Wealthy SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is millions of dollars ahead of his rivals in the fundraising race, according to just-released public information, but this revelation wrought a puerile pissing match between Lurie and Mark Farrell on Twitter Thursday.
SF Politics Trump-Like Rhetoric at Mark Farrell Event Raises Eyebrows, Farrell Quickly Disavows Host’s Remarks The host of a recent Mark Farrell fundraiser in the Marina went off on SF for “lawlessness and wokeism,” a description Farrell called “pretty compelling.” But now Farrell says he disagrees, and Mayor Breed is taking him to task.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Getting Widely Memed, and That’s Actually a Good Thing For Her Campaign Internet memelords are going cuckoo for coconut-themed memes and other online gags depicting Kamala Harris in “brat” lime green, as her presidential campaign is ironically benefiting from repurposed memes that were originally used to depict her unflatteringly.
SF Politics Breed Vows Major Encampment Crackdown Coming In August, Says There May Be ‘Criminal Penalties’ Emboldened by the recent Supreme Court decision allowing bans on homeless encampments, Mayor London Breed said Thursday that a major effort to sweep encampments was in the works and would start in August.
SF Politics SF Mayoral Candidates Keep Wanting to Be Seen Around Firefighters, Fire Department Reportedly Getting Sick of It All five major candidates running for Mayor of San Francisco are putting on a full-court press chasing the SF firefighters’ union endorsement, but the candidates’ very frequent visits to local fire departments may be burning their chances of winning brownie points.
SF Politics SF’s Moderate Candidates Duke It Out at Debate Peskin Skipped Because He Figured It Was Rigged Monday night saw another SF mayoral debate, this one largely dominated by the topics of crime and homelessness, but Aaron Peskin refused to show because he felt the organizers already had the fix in for Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie.
SF Politics Vallejo’s Own E-40 Is Doing a Post-Presidential Debate Rally With Joe Biden While Fat Joe may be the headliner of the event, Vallejo native E-40 is also on the card for a Friday rally for Joe Biden in swing state North Carolina after Thursday night’s highly anticipated presidential debate.
SF Politics Scandal Believed to Be Behind FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Had 93 Alleged Illegal Donations — Some May Be to Recall Backers Embattled Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may have received donations through a campaign money laundering scheme that could be the root of last week’s FBI raid of her home. But of the 93 alleged illegal donations, some may have gone to top Recall Sheng Thao backers too.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Has Now Spent More Than $1 Million In SF Mayoral Race Levi Strauss family heir money and venture capitalists’ bucks are flying into the campaign accounts for SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie, but he’s burning through it too, and has spent $1.2 million with Election Day still five months out.
SF Politics Lights Went Out as Candidates Were Speaking at Monday Night’s Very Glitchy SF Mayoral Debate It was literally a “lights out” performance, and not in a good way, on Monday night when the five major candidates running for San Francisco mayor debated at UC Law, and repeated technical glitches marred the night’s proceedings.
SF Politics In First SF Mayoral Debate, Crowd’s Jeers are More Memorable Than Candidates’ Performances All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
SF Politics Tonight’s SF Trump Fundraiser Shows the MAGA-fication of So-Called ‘Moderates’ Bay Area VC billionaires and podcast bros will roll out the red carpet for convicted felon Donald Trump Thursday night at a Pacific Heights fundraiser, a sign of the increasing commingling of political “moderates” with full-on Trumpers.
SF Politics GOP Senate Candidate Steve Garvey Has His Property Taxes Paid by Some Mysterious Outfit Called ‘Sisters in Christ’ There’s some funny business in Steve Garvey’s taxes, aside from the fact that he owes several hundred thousand, as his property taxes are being paid by some nebulous group with the name “Sisters in Christ.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Both of Monday’s Scheduled SF Mayoral Debates Have Now Crashed and Burned A naming contest is underway for the Berkeley falcon chicks; there’s more Gaza protest controversy at Sonoma State University; and one of Monday’s mayoral debates got canceled while the other one now only has two candidates participating.
SF Politics Someone Who Hates Mark Farrell Bought the ‘Mark Farrell for Mayor’ Website Just to Trash Him A delicious dose of dirty politics in the SF mayor’s race, as some joker or troll bought the website MarkFarrellForMayor.com, and has dedicated the site to pointing out Farrell’s unflattering details and past ethical issues.
SF Politics Breed Threatens to Back Out of First Mayoral Debate, Questions Whether It Might Be Rigged by Organizer The first SF Mayoral debate is in less than two weeks, but London Breed may be a no-show, as there are ties surfacing between the debate’s tech PAC organizer, and both the Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie campaigns.
SF Politics Peskin Campaign Releases First Campaign Donation Numbers, Which Seem Good But Not Great Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s mayoral campaign has revealed to the press what the fundraising numbers look like in his first month in the race, but like another late entry, Mark Farrell, these numbers cannot be independently verified and we’re just taking their word for it.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Proposes a $360 Million Bond Measure to Fund a Potpourri of Seemingly Unrelated Causes When you vote on whether to reelect Mayor London Breed on November 5, you might also be voting on Breed’s new $360 million bond measure that would fund hospitals, homelessness services, street improvements, and even Harvey Milk Plaza.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie PAC Already Spending Gigantic Sums To Clog Your Mailbox With November Election Mailers There’s only one candidate who’s already sending out mailers for SF’s November mayoral elections while it’s still April, and that’s Levi Strauss heir Danial Lurie, whose campaign PAC is bolstered by a million-dollar donation from his mom.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie Raising Eye-Popping Sums of Money From VCs and His Family Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is walloping the competition in the mayoral money race, with about four times as much cash raised as Mayor Breed, most of it coming from tech founders, venture capitalists, and his mom.
