SF News Brown Maintains Lead Over Whitman According to a Field Poll released today, Democrat Jerry Brown has a strong "double-digit" lead over his Republican opponent, Meg Whitman. "The survey found the former two-term governor
SF News Who Is and Isn't Endorsing Sit/Lie? Here's some succulent comment bait for your Thursday morning: Matt Baume, in a Spot.us pitch, culled some impressive endorsement data about Measure L, the city's sit/lie law
SF News District 10 Supervisor Race Looks to Be Total Sh*tshow The District 6 race might be hogging a lot of the spotlight, just the way termed-out D6 supe Chris Daly often did while in office, and the District 8 race has garnered
SF News Sen. Boxer Sends Best Wishes to Hospitalized Fiorina Disgraced ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina was sent to the hospital this morning due to an infection stemming from reconstructive surgery she had after battling breast cancer. She is expected to make a
SF News Theresa Sparks, Other Transgender Candidates, Make the <em>NYT</em> The NYT/Bay Citizen notes several transgender candidates running for elected office this election season, including local examples Theresa Sparks (running for District 6 Supervisor) and Victoria Kolakowski (running for Alameda County Superior
SF News October Surprise: Meg Whitman's Problematic Son Accused of Rape Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's deplorable son, was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate while attending Princeton. Gawker's Maureen O'Connor, who broke the
SF News Biden In S.F. Tonight For Boxer Event Prefacing Obama's arrival on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden will be in town tonight to support Barbara Boxer. BCN (via SF Appeal) reports, "Tonight's event is scheduled to
SF News Best Campaign Poster of the Election Season As The Tenderloin Geographic Society dutifully points out, "Playing the puppy card, [Dean] Clark cinches the eight-year-old vote and refuses to kowtow to the Cat Fancy constituency." And how.
misc November 2010 Election Contest The Usual Suspects (AKA Barbary Coast Consulting) is holding an election contest where you can win $500. It involves perceiving who will win the election after the Department of Elections runs their ranked
SF News Last Day to Register to Vote in November Election What with election day around the corner, we must tell you that today is the last day to register to vote in the November election. You can print out or complete the registration
SF News Obama to Visit S.F In Support of Kamala Harris President Obama will once again grace San Francisco with his formidable presence, this time in support of DA Kamala Harris. Per the White House press release: "On Thursday, October 21, 2010, President
SF News Bill Clinton Stumps In Napa and San Jose, Warns That Not Voting Will Wreck Everything The Big Daddy of all Democrats, Bill Clinton, was here over the weekend, giving his 83rd stump speech of this election season and trying to convince the Democratic base that there's
misc Debating Semantics Speaking of Tuesday's Gubernatorial Debate, Joe Garofoli over at the Chron asks, "Is 'whore' as offensive as the n-word?" while wondering why Jerry Brown won'
SF News Meg and Jerry Duke it Out at Final Gubernatorial Debate We might not have gotten that radio debate last week, but it sounds like the boxing match at the final gubernatorial debate in San Rafael last night made for better visuals anyway. According
SF News Lacking (Viable) African-American Candidates for Mayor, Black Churches in Oakland Rally Behind Jewish Lesbian In a twist that is so very Bay Area, the candidate for mayor who's increasingly becoming the favorite among black churches in Oakland is Rebecca Kaplan, a Jewish lesbian City Council
SF News Obama Endorses Kamala Harris for State Attorney General Kamala Harris scored a major, though not surprising, coup today. President Barack Obama endorsed the San Francisco City Attorney in her bid for State Attorney General. In a written statement distributed by the
SF News Brown Still Has Plenty of Money Left in Campaign Coffers; Whitman, Not So Much According to new campaign finance reports, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is swiftly running out of money, while Jerry Brown still has plenty with which to run attack ads between now and November
SF News Prop Talk: Mayor Newsom Wants You to Vote No on Prop 23 by Andrew Dalton Despite his perma-slick hair, Mayor Newsom isn't exactly making friends in petroleum industry on his run for Lieutenant Governor by speaking out against Proposition 23 which will
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Extra: Jerry Brown Fundraiser In SoMa Seeing as how Whitman has enough money to toss into an abyss, perhaps you'd like to donate to campaign Brown tonight while getting shit-faced drunk and nibbling on Top Chef
SF News Gubernatorial Dollar Count While Republican Meg Whitman has spent a jarring $140 million on her campaign, investing $119 million of her own money -- side note: $140 billion and you air that cringe-induclingly bad, "I
SF News Muni Reform Drama: Rafael Mandelman v. Scott Wiener Aaaand, we're off! Regarding to local politics, the election--at last--is getting good. See, a little drama sparked over the weekend after District 8 candidate Scott Wiener.sent out a
SF News Brown-Whitman Radio Debate Cancelled A radio debate between gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman, which was scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. on the Ronn Owens' show, has been cancelled. La Marinucci reports that
SF News Meg Whitman Knew About Illegal Employee? Although gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said on Tuesday that she fired Nicky Diaz Santillan, her overly emotional maid, the moment he informed her that she was an illegal immigrant, that might not be
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day From E.L.: "I think Whitman forgot to take out her retainer for the debate."
SF News Battling Video Arguments For and Against Sit/Lie The Civil Sidewalks folks have put together a little YouTube vid to support Prop L, the Sit/Lie orginance, featuring police chief George Gascon as well as a number of store owners and
