SF Politics Mark Farrell and Ahsha Safai Come Together for Improbable ‘1-2’ Ranked-Choice Alliance In Mayoral Race Some strange bedfellows at opposite ends of the political spectrum have come together in the SF mayor’s race, as moderate Mark Farrell has made a puzzling partnership with Ahsha Safai in hopes of gaming the ranked-choice votes.
SF Politics In Fifth (and Probably Final) Mayoral Debate, Sharp Barbs on Homelessness and Corruption The Coalition On Homelessness was the unexpected boogeyman at Thursday night’s SF mayoral debate, but London Breed and Mark Farrell took plenty of heat for their own alleged corruption issues.
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 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 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 Breed and Supervisors Arguing Publicly After Committee Rejects Breed’s Police Commission Pick With two of Mayor Breed’s nominees for the Police Commission up for a vote, a Board of Supervisors committee rejected Breed’s pick Debra Walker, setting off Twitter spats between the mayor and Supervisor Ahsha Safai, but the full board will have the final say on this.
SF Politics We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17 After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.
SF Politics Supervisors Override Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Density Limit Legislation, In Big Win for Peskin With two supervisors likely running for mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors flexed a supermajority and shot down Mayor Breed’s veto of their measure to limit large towers along parts of the city’s northern waterfront.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Mark Farrell Beating London Breed in First-Choice Vote, and Breed Trailing In Ranked-Choice The first poll conducted since Mark Farrell jumped into the SF mayor’s race shows him edging London Breed slightly in first-choice votes, while Daniel Lurie does the best in second-choice votes, and there are generally low approval ratings for Breed.
SF Politics Supervisor Safai’s ‘Cop Tax’ Headed for the March 5 Ballot, But Would Fund More Than Just Cops SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safai may have won the first battle in the war of the 2024 SF elections with a new ballot measure tying police staffing to tax revenue, though a colleague called it “the worst-written piece of legislation I think I’ve seen.”
SF Politics SF Supervisors Dorsey and Safai In Twitter Spat Over Funding Dorsey’s Police Staffing Plan Supervisor Matt Dorsey is dumping his own plan to bolster SFPD staffing after Supervisor Ahsha Safai inserted a so-called “poison pill” to the measure, so the two supes duked it out on Twitter and at a supervisors’ committee meeting that got personal.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Ahsha Safai Makes It Official: He's Running For Mayor Confirming a widespread rumor of many months, San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí has filed paperwork making it official that he will run for mayor against London Breed in 2024.
SF News Supervisor Ahsha Safai Has Home Broken Into, Thieves Steal Stove and Microwave Oven District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai’s house suffered a break-in Thursday night, and some appliances were stolen from the supervisor who’s one of the most outspoken about property crime.
SF Politics Ballot Measure Heads for Approval That Would Create Oversight Commission for SF's Dept. of Homelessness San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), which was created under Mayor Ed Lee's administration less than a decade ago, probably could use more independent oversight. And voters will likely get to decide that this November.
SF News SF Sheriff's Deputies Can Now Work Security at Retail Stores, in Latest Retail Theft Crackdown Tactic You may soon see legitimate, gun-toting, badge-wearing sheriff's deputies working private security at your local Walgreens, as the supervisors approved a plan to let them moonlight as private retail security.
SF Politics Former Supervisor John Avalos Is Running Again for District 11 Supervisor The 2020 Board of Supervisors races are now underway, as one-time supervisor John Avalos is challenging Ahsha Safai for the seat Avalos held for eight years.
SF News Lot Next To Balboa Park BART Proposed As SF's First 'Triage' Center For Homeless Living In Cars and RVs A 1.8-acre parking lot that sits at the intersection of Geneva and San Jose Avenues, next to I-280 and across the street from the Balboa Park BART station, has been proposed by the city to be used temporarily as a vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless.
SF News Supes May Impose Moratorium On New Pot Dispensaries Tuesday night saw a pretty action-packed final Board of Supervisors meeting before their five-week summer recess, but a couple of the decisions they made might not be to a stoner’s delight. Supervisor
SF News How Does Your Supervisor Kill Time On The Internet? An Analysis Anyone who’s endured any portion of a weekly San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting knows that these are godawfully long and dull affairs during which no sentient human could ever avoid the
SF News Supervisor Can Only Be A 'Good Dad' If San Francisco Gives Him Free Parking Can one be a good husband or father in San Francisco if one 1) Does not own a car 2) Has to pay for parking? Apparently not, if the words of one of
SF News John Avalos Likens Current Board Of Supervisors Intrigue To 'Game Of Thrones' If you enjoy the chess game of Supervisorial politics in City Hall, you're maybe waiting with bated breath to find out who will get picked to replace Scott Wiener in District 8, and
SF News 'Dirty' Politics: How The City's Janitors Could Swing The Board Of Supes' Balance of Power Nobody likes a boring election. (Plenty of people don’t like allegedly exciting elections, either, so there’s that.) People like to know their vote matter and that, in turn, they matter, even
