SF News John Avalos, The Great Prog Hope, To Run For Mayor District 11 Supervisor John Avalos, 47, will announce today his plan to run for Mayor of San Francisco. A California native (a rarity within progressive circles), Avalos was born in Wilmington in Los
SF News SF Mayoral Watch: Waiting, Delays, Voting, & Hand-Wringing Who's going to be the next mayor of San Francisco? That's the question on the minds of literally hundreds of San Franciscans. It's goes something like this: Newsom wants his replacement to be
SF News Swearing-In 2011: Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris Looking to distance himself from the (disgraceful?) Schwarzenegger regime via a more celebrity-free inauguration, Jerry Brown's swearing-in today as the 39th Governor of California will be an appropriately mellow affair. Today's 11 a.
misc This Week in Willie Brown Well, this is awkward - Da Mayor kicked off his week with some uncharacteristic self-depreciation, calling himself a loser in his Sunday column in which he points out there were "More losers than
SF News Nancy Pelosi Re-Elected to Lead House Democrats It was predicted she would take it with a large majority, and it's true: House Democrats just voted to elect Nancy Pelosi as minority leader in a closed-door vote of 150-43. Steny Hoyer
SF News Concessions Issued in Supervisor Races, Wiener and Kim Claim Victory Even though the SF Department of Elections refuses to go beyond the *preliminary* stages of ranked choice vote tallying, Debra Walker and Rafael Mandelman put us out of our misery yesterday by issuing
SF News A Plea Against Ranked-Choice Voting Love him or hate him, spunky Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius refuses to side with the average Valencia Street-dwelling trustifarian robot who eschews motorized vehicles. And for that? We love him... even if
SF News BoS President David Chiu, Your Ideal Interim Mayor We asked who you wanted as the interim San Francisco mayor yesterday. A decent pool of 560 responded to our unscientific poll. The winner? David Chiu. Behold: 1) Board of Supervisors President David
SF News Poll: Select Your Interim S.F. Mayor Did you hear? Mayor Gavin Newsom will be your next Lieutenant Governor. (Who knew a complex city like San Francisco, one balancing precariously on a precipice, could also make for a perfect rung
SF News Preliminary Supervisor Election Results, Post-Ranked-Choice Runoffs: Kim, Wiener Still On Top, District 10 Still Damn Close 55% of you went out to vote last Tuesday, and they're still trying to figure out who won the Board of Supervisors races (good luck sweatin' this out, District 10!). The first preliminary
SF News Oakland Mayoral Race: Quan Takes Lead Over Perata Although they won't name a mayor until later this week, it seems likely that we'll be typing "Oakland Mayor Quan" for the next four years. According to reports, Oakland Councilwoman Jean Quan might
SF News Kamala Harris Swipes Slim Lead Though many counted her out, S.F. District Attorney Kamala Harris just grabbed a slight lead from her GOP rival in the state attorney general race. "With 99.2 percent of precincts reporting,
SF News An Elegy for Nancy "At 70 years old, her political career is likely over. Congress is a funny, insular place. Mastering it the way Pelosi did is an art that is much more a liability than an
SF News Perata Leads Oakland Mayor's Race, Final Tally Due Friday Former state senator Don Perata has a fair lead in the race for Mayor of Oakland, with city councilwoman Jean Quan trailing behind by 11 percentage points. Perata holds 35% of the vote
SF News The Sit/Lie Proponents Win, Prop L Passes; Prop G, Changing the Way Muni Drivers Are Paid, Also Passes Measure L, the Sit/Lie law, looks to have passed with 53% of the city voting yes to outlaw sitting or lying on sidewalks between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11
SF News Scott Wiener, Jane Kim Take Early Leads in Supervisor Races With the whole ranked choice thing, and the relatively slim majorities being held, it's probably too early to call most of the Supervisor races. The Appeal has published the percentages of votes tallied
SF News State Ballot Measures: Pipe Dreams on 19, Simple Majority for Budget and We Still Don't Like Texas Well, those LA times reports may have been right about voter sentiment on Prop 19. As of 11pm, CNN reports that 35% of the precincts have checked in and has gone ahead to
SF News Newsom Takes Lieutenant Governor, Boxer Wins (Barely), California Democrats Feel Lucky The NYT, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Chron are calling it for Boxer, with a 4-point spread and 30% of precincts reporting, ending a bitter fight with Republican Carly Fiorina that might
SF News Election Night 2010: Calling it for Jerry Brown So the poll results have been coming in since about 8:30 or so, and even though the California Results page is has been down pretty much the whole time, we can say
SF News Pot Smokers Not Actually Making It to the Polls? The LA Times blog reports that, via preliminary exit poll data, "only about 1 voter in 10 said that his or her main motivation to vote in this election was Prop. 19." Most
SF News Republicans Will Control House; Pelosi Goes Down Sacramento Bee and most of the major networks are reporting that the GOP will win the House majority. What's more, they're looking good in the Senate, but the night is still young. Unlike
SF News Where To Find Election Coverage Updates While SFist will bring you election 2010 updates as soon as the numbers start rolling in, you can also keep track online. Behold: California state results page is a good option; here's the
misc The Candidates Weigh in on the Giants' World Series Win (On Twitter) While you might still be having some trouble dragging yourself out to the polls today (which is not an excuse! go vote!), most of the candidates up for office seem like they played
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "My Girl's a Republican" And now, to cleanse your political palates this fine Monday afternoon/election eve, we bring you this catchy ditty "My Girl's a Republican" from The Real. Like all great videos, it contains talking
SF News Photos: S.F. Supe Candidates' Halloween Costumes Here are four candidates running for supervisor sporting Halloween garb. (Cadidates not featured here, calm down. We breezily lifted these images from said candidates' Facebook pages. We'll post more if and when they
