SF Politics Joel Engardio Becomes New SF Supervisor for District 4 as Gordon Mar Concedes Close Race With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Supervisors Spend Five Hours Haranguing Over Mandated 82,000 New Housing Units, But We Might Actually Hit That Goal? It’s not surprising that the SF Board of Supervisors spent nearly five hours debating a state-mandated housing requirement that the city build 82,000 new housing units by 2031. What is surprising is that we might actually achieve the goal.
SF Politics Mayoral Appointees Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey Hold Leads as Ranked-Choice Results Are Tabulated Two closely watched city races, the District 6 supervisor race and the district attorney's race, do not yet have final results — but both Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey appear to hold solid leads.
SF Politics New Poll Finds — Suprise! — San Franciscans Dislike Most of Their City Leaders A new survey that the Chronicle conducted alongside a professional pollster in late June and early July found that San Franciscans are largely unhappy with how the city is being run, and they blame both the mayor and the Board of Supervisors about equally.
SF Politics Not Going Down Without a Fight, Supe Candidate Leanna Louie Is Now Suing the City Would-be District 4 supervisorial candidate Leanna Louie held herself a rally/press conference Tuesday morning to announce that she is suing the city over being struck from the November ballot over residency issues.
SF Politics Breed Demands Apology From Sup. Walton Over N-Word Use Toward Sheriff's Cadet; Walton Says He Might Sue Instead The war of words over an n-word incident five weeks ago escalated dramatically Monday, with Mayor Breed saying Shamann Walton should apologize to a sheriff’s cadet, and a hardly contrite Walton threatening “he may take legal action.”
SF Politics Supervisor Gordon Mar Smeared With ‘Communist Pedophile’ Flyers Posted in the Sunset The Epoch Times-Shen Yun faction of San Francisco politics is slinging some pretty toxic mud at District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar, with an anonymous flyering campaign accusing him of “grooming children” and providing “free money to crackheads.”
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 Politics Despite $108 Million Surplus, Budget Wrangling Underway Between Mayor and Supervisors City Hall is enjoying an unprecedented $108 million budget surplus, which rather than making budgeting easier, is setting off all-out-wars between various special interests who think that the “fiscal cliff reserve” money really ought to be set aside for them.
SF Politics Supervisor Dorsey’s First Big Legislative Move Is Call for ‘Drug Enforcement Priority Zones’ New Breed-appointed District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey introduced his first high-profile bill, a ‘Right to Recovery’ measure, establishing areas near drug recovery facilities as ‘designated priorities’ for law enforcement.
SF News Mandelman’s Shelter-for-All Plan Passes Board Unanimously, Though Many Are Skeptical It Will Do Anything Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his freshly passed “Place for All Program” is “maniacally focused” on ending homelessness in San Francisco, but the city has seen these slogan-driven plans have had little effect in the past.
SF Politics Honey Mahogany Officially Declares She’s Running for District 6 Supervisor It was an open secret that SF Democratic Party Chair and prominent local drag figure Honey Mahogany would pursue the District 6 supervisor seat, and that’s now official, setting up what will surely be November’s most interesting local race.
SF Politics Breed's Pick for D6 Supervisor Is Matt Dorsey, Longtime Politico, Advisor to City Attorney, PR Guy for the Cops Mayor London Breed is set today to swear in her appointment to the Board of Supervisors to fill the District 6 seat vacated by Matt Haney, and it's another Matt who has been roaming the halls of City Hall for a couple of decades.
SF Politics SF's Department of Homelessness May Finally Get an Oversight Commission A city department with an increasingly massive budget has no commission providing oversight or holding it to account. The SF Board of Supervisors may be about to change that.
SF Politics Matt Haney Claims Victory In Assembly Race, Giving Mayor Breed a Board Seat Appointment SF's District 6 will be getting a new appointed supervisor and the city is getting a new face in the Assembly after Tuesday's runoff election — it's just that we'll have to vote on this seat twice more this year.
SF Politics Redistricting Task Force Submits ‘Draft Final Map’ After High Drama, Twitter Fights, and Half the Task Force Walking Out A bonkers weekend of redistricting fireworks saw profane Twitter fights between supervisors, and four members storming out of a late night meeting in protest, but the map’s final draft is now complete.
SF Politics SF Redistricting Devolves Into Chaos, Now Three Members of Task Force May Be Removed The SF Redistricting Task Force kept redrawing supervisor districts in another raucous meeting that went ‘til nearly 3:30 Thursday morning, but now three members of the commission might be kicked off, and mind you this three days before their deadline.
SF Politics Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF Politics New Proposed Board of Supervisors District Map Is Out, and Everyone Thinks It’s an Abomination The proposed redistricting of the SF Board of Supervisors map has been released, and early reviews from current and former supervisors describe it as ‘horrifying,’ ‘a joke,’ and ‘on crack.’
SF Politics Emergency Paid Sick Leave Could Be Permanent in San Francisco Paid leave during a health crisis could soon be a basic human right in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Can Get New Bars for First Time in 34 Years, After Board Passes New Zoning Law There has not been a new alcohol license granted to a Castro bar since 1987, but there probably will be soon, as the SF Board of Supervisors has approved an updated zoning ordinance.
SF Politics London Breed Goes on Kara Swisher’s NYT Podcast, Slams Boudin and Supervisors: ‘They Are Not Black People’ The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she "would remove the Board of Supervisors" and critique that they’re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities.
SF News Supervisors Take a Do-Over Vote on Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, Decide to Delay Their Vote Again After demanding a revote on Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin “state of emergency” declaration, the supervisors debated it for three hours Tuesday night, and then just punted another vote out to February 8.
SF News Two New SF Proposals Target Resale Markets Where Shoplifting Rings Sell Their Stuff Online marketplaces and illegal street vendors are where organized retail theft rings unload their ill-gotten goods, and two new laws before the SF Board of Supervisors would hope to squeeze those markets dry.
SF Politics State Agency Threatens Investigation Into Supervisors Rejecting 27-Story Residential Tower A few Sacramento lawmakers are squawking over the supes’ denial of a 495-unit project on what’s currently a SoMa parking lot, and a state agency is threatening a possible lawsuit.
