SF Politics Confusing-As-Heck SF DCCC Election Today Features 51 Candidates, Most of Whom You Haven’t Heard Of Today’s election for the SF Democratic County Central Committee features 51 candidates who you have likely never heard of, vying to make decisions you likely will never pay attention to. But for political nerds, the stakes are high!
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Not Retiring, Will Run For Re-Election In 2024 Depending on how you see it, it's either a lioness of Congress keeping hold of her role representing our city in Washington and continuing to school the youngsters in how to get stuff done, or it's another stubborn and aging politician refusing to cede power to the next generation.
SF Politics Duuude, Marianne Williamson Is Running For President Again Joe Biden has a challenger for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, and it's crystal-slinging self-help author Marianne Williamson, who just announced that she’s throwing her hat in the ring to run for president again.
SF Politics You've Seen the Elizabeth Warren Ad, Now Wait for Biden, Sanders and Others to Back Newsom In the Recall A host of heavy-hitting Democrats is expected to lend their mugs and voices to ads for the "No" campaign in the California recall, and a 30-second ad featuring Senator Elizabeth Warren is already airing in the hope of getting out the Dem vote.
SF Politics Honey Mahogany Declares Candidacy for SF Democratic Party Chair Onetime Rupaul's Drag Race contestant Honey Mahogany, who more recently has been working in San Francisco City Hall as a legislative aide to Supervisor Matt Haney, announced this week that she's running to become the first Black trans person to run for SF Democratic Party Chair.
SF News Obama Is Coming to Town For Pricey Democratic Fundraiser, and Dreamforce President Barack Obama is coming back to the Bay Area next week both to be a keynote speaker at Salesforce's Dreamforce convention, and to be the guest of honor at a fancy Democratic fundraiser in Los Altos.
SF News Video: Willie Brown Talks 56 Years Of Democratic National Conventions Willie Brown is front and center on the New York Times' homepage today in a Times-produced video all about his roles at the Democratic National Conventions going back six decades. Brown, best known
SF News Bernie Sanders Supporters Shut Down After Arguing State Primary Is Rigged Against Independents Last Friday, a group of Sanders supporters calling themselves the Voting Rights Defense Project filed an after-hours request for a preliminary injunction in the California state primary in federal court in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment After Warfield Fundraiser With Obama, Kanye West Showed Up At <i>American Idol</i> Auditions In SF You may have noticed the motorcade and the line (and protest) outside the Warfield Theater Saturday for the DNC fundraiser featuring President Obama and Kanye West. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf also gave some
SF News Would Joe Biden Pick San Francisco To Announce His Presidential Bid? So here's a rumor I'm going to float, and before I reveal the source, hear me out: Vice-President Joe Biden, who's all but expected to throw his hat in the ring for the
SF News All I Need are Some Tasty Waves, a Cool Buzz, Matt Gonzalez, and I'm Fine According to the story, Matt really wasn't sure if his bud Sean was making a joke or not (although we've yet to hear Sean Penn make a joke and can't be sure he
SF News SFist Helps Gavin Get a Date This made us sad. After all, if a rich, good looking, Mayor often referred to as the Future of the Democratic Party can't get a date, what hope do we have? We're just
SF News DiFi Sucks And so the question is raised, why DiFi, why? In her speech to her fellow Senators, DiFi put up that famous picture of marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima and talked about
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems
SF News Asian-American Democrats Have The Power Saturday, Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and about 400 Democratic Asian American party activists and officials filled the halls of the San Jose Marriott to attend the Asian American and Pacific Islander Democratic
SF News Election Woes Well, it's not quite Bush stealing Florida or anything, but due to circumstances out of our control, the previous Gavin-Sofia couple name election has hit some woes -- it looks like the polling
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
SF News Wah-huh? Now SFist is all about consensus and compromise and bi-partisan politics, but unless the cake was chock-full of laxatives, we don't see how getting friendly with a man who Ted Kennedy accused of
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
Arts & Entertainment It's Abortion Protest Saturday There will be, of course, an anti-anti-abortion counter rally to be held in response. In fact, some pro-choice organizers are responding with all the love of open-mindedness and civil discussion that makes this
SF News An SFist Cameo on DCist ...or is it a DCist cameo on SFist? Our sister site notes that one of our local boys, Adam Werbach, and his new group, the November 3 Theses, have invaded their town to
Arts & Entertainment Sigh It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our
SF News Senate Leadership Stays by the Bay Yesterday the Democratic Caucus of the California State Senate voted to replace termed-out senator John Burton [D-San Francisco] with Don Perata [D-Oakland] as the new President Pro-tempore of the senate. Considered the 'second
