SF News Campos Concedes To Chiu; Both Candidates Issue Gratuitous Statements David Campos made a phone call to David Chiu Thursday evening to concede the relatively close race for Assembly District 17. As Chiu wrote on Facebook, "We had a positive conversation and agreed
SF News 246 People Voted For Peter Liu For Oakland Mayor Just in case you were wondering, it looks like Oakland voters didn't take troll-candidate Peter Liu's candidacy too seriously in Tuesday's election. The gun-toting, gay-hating, horseriding advocate garnered only 246 votes for his
SF News The East Bay Races: Oakland Gets A New Mayor, Chevron's Candidate Fails In Richmond, and More And, wrapping up today's election coverage, I bring you news from across the Bay, where Oakland ousted its incumbent mayor, Richmond elected a progressive candidate despite Chevron's million-dollar campaign against him, and a
SF News Jane Kim's Shoes Win Everything: Observations From My Tour Of Election Victory Parties Last Night I've never been to any Election Night parties in S.F., so when a politically connected friend invited me along for a four-party tour last night to kiss a few rings, I figured
SF News Statewide Election Results: Gavin, Jerry, Nancy, And Kamala Keep Jobs; Wins For Criminals, H2O There were few (if any) election day surprises in California's statewide races. The end! Now go read about Lou Seal! Ha ha just kidding, we're still going to tell you about what happened.
SF News SF's Soda And Property Flipper Tax Measures Fail, Minimum Wage Increase Triumphs San Francisco made it through nearly half the alphabet, we had so many propositions to vote on this year. How did your pet issues do? WINNER: Local Measure A - San Francisco Transportation
SF News Here Are All The (Preliminary) Election Results You Need To Know From Last Night How about that super expensive midterm election, huh? It killed a couple thousand trees just in local races alone, got the doctors all really worried that they won't be able to party on
SF News Four Races To Watch In Today's Election, Besides San Francisco's You may have heard some of the figures, but despite this being a mid-term election, this has, for various reasons, become the most expensive mid-term election in American history. And even though people
SF News Meet The Weird Guy From The S.F. Voter's Guide Who Wrote His Dissenting Opinions In All Caps Did you vote yet? Well, I'd like to introduce you to a minor celebrity for those of us who've actually read the S.F. voter's guide this election: Terence Faulkner. He lists himself
SF News Go Vote, Dummies: Here's What You Need To Know Finally, after what feels like a campaign season that lasted forever, it's the mid-term election! If you haven't mailed in your ballot, today's the day you're voting. Here's what you need to know:
SF News Pro Soda Tax Campaigners Bring Severed Legs, Giant Can Of Diabetes To Dolores Park [Updated] The Yes on E camp, who would like you all to vote for the controversial 2-cent tax on sugary beverages on Tuesday, took to Dolores Park and elsewhere in town over the last
SF News Just How Many Trees Have Died For This Year's Election Mailers? Does anyone besides elderly shut-ins read election mailers? It's not possible yet to know how many millions of dollars are being wasted on all the heavy-stock mail pieces that are stuffing your mailboxes,
SF News Video: Jimmy Kimmel Gently Rips Guy Running For Oakland Mayor Who Hates Bicycles, Gays "Do you know that this guy is actually a troll?" one political insider asked after SFist ran this clearly (we hope) ironically intended report on Oakland mayoral candidate Peter Y. Liu. "It seems
SF News Campos vs. Chiu: Progressives Raising Progressively More Campaign Money It’s ‘commie vs. commie’ in the Nov. 4 Assembly race of David Chiu vs. David Campos, a rematch of the exact same candidates you chose between in this past June’s primary
SF News Mayor Lee Can Dish Out Punishment Over Transportation Funding, But He Sure Can't Take It You know that thing where you're involved in an argument with someone, then you realize that your opponent is actually angry about something that has NOTHING to do with what you're talking about?
SF News The Nudists Will Be Protesting Scott Wiener Again Next Weekend It's an election year, and incumbent District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener may not be facing a ton of competition in the race, but that doesn't mean the nudist contingent will not be trying
SF News Guy Running For Oakland Mayor Hates Bicycles, Gays, Thinks We Should All Carry Guns The Oakland Mayor's race has, historically, been a bit of a circus. Back in July we noted the 21-candidate race included a dog named Einstein who was being put forward by the Occupy
SF News A Challenger Rises: Former GOP Chair Announces Run Against Gavin Newsom Former SF Mayor, now California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom has been busy this month, what with hanging out with the French President, pulling his support from CA's high-speed rail project, and encouraging everybody
SF News Pelosi Confirms She's Not Retiring Yet House Minority Leader and SF homegirl Nancy Pelosi, remarkably not exhausted by the last year of bullshit in Congress, confirms this week that she will be running for her House seat again in
