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SF News Behold, The Chronicle's Damningly Tepid Endorsement Of Mayor Ed Lee We've all been scolded "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all" at one time or another, haven't we? Of course, that admonishment doesn't apply when you work in the
SF News Airbnb's $8 Million And More: SF Campaign Fundraising, By The Numbers As things ramp up towards November's election in San Francisco, big money has been flooding in and out of the offices of some hotly-contested (in most cases) local campaigns. Want to take a
SF News Video: Mayor Ed Lee's Vision For San Francisco Hey, what are you up to for the next hour and seven minutes? Want to watch Mayor Ed Lee face the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board? Then do I have a video for
SF News Thank God: It Will Now Be 10 Times More Expensive To Launch A Ballot Initiative Even though in my opinion it ought to cost $200,000, the state has thankfully raised the fee for filing a ballot initiative from $200 to $2,000, making it slightly more difficult
SF News Ed Lee's Big Money Tech Leader Donations, By The Numbers Even though Mayor Ed Lee's reelection bid is virtually unopposed, his campaign has been gathering cash hand over fist. One area from which he's getting big bucks is the tech sector (surprise!), just
SF News Ron Conway Donations In District 3 Fight Questioned The only two local-official elections that will be at all interesting this November are the Sheriff's race in which incumbent Ross Mirkarimi will have to fend of bad press and a back-room campaign
SF News It Looks Like We Will Be Voting On Changing The 'Airbnb Law' In November Opponents of SF's short-term rental ordinance, dubbed the 'Airbnb Law,' that was passed by the Board of Supervisors last October, have succeeded in gathering almost 16,000 signatures to get a proposition
SF News What's Ed Saying Now? Looking Ahead, Or Not Working w @sfbos to deliver City budget that invests responsibly in residents, ensures all share in #SF’s prosperity pic.twitter.com/DjJtVLdomX— Edwin Lee (@mayoredlee) June 1, 2015 In a move that
SF News Jerry Brown Forgets To Endorse Ed Lee During Ed Lee Endorsement Speech We all forget things every once in a while, and I'm certainly not going to argue that there's necessarily shame in being forgotten. Your toothbrush, the wireless bill, to water the plants — everyone's
SF News Ed Lee's Big Bucks Donations By The Numbers Campaign finance rules limit the amount of money any one donor can give a candidate for San Francisco office. But those rules don't limit something called "behested payments," in which pols ask for,
SF News Ed Lee Has A Mayoral Opponent: Amy Farah Weiss, The YIMBY We haven’t had a notable non-establishment candidate for mayor in this town since 2007 when Chicken John and Josh Wolf both cracked 1%. But those guys didn’t have the fortune to
SF News Election 2015: Former Homeless Hater Fibs About Mayoral Pow-Wow, Lee's War Chest Grows And Grows President Obama might be struggling to raise dough, but I can think of one guy, a man who's facing a lot less opposition, who isn't. You guessed it! I'm talking about San Francisco
SF News Most San Franciscans Don't Hate Tech At All In a recent poll of 501 likely voters commissioned by Ed Lee's re-election campaign and conducted by Oakland's EMC Research, 65% of respondents expressed a favorable opinion of "the local technology industry." By
SF News Mayor Lee's Approval Numbers Slide In New Poll Last year, 65% of likely voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mayor Ed Lee according to the Chronicle. His approval rating has sunk before to 49%, but earlier this year was
SF News So Much For That: Mark Leno Won't Try To Unseat Mayor Ed Lee After All What a difference a couple weeks makes! Back on November 18, a local news site reported that it was absolutely certain that Senator Mark Leno would be challenging Ed Lee in San Francisco's
SF News Report: Mark Leno's Definitely Running Against Ed Lee In 2015 Is State Senator Mark Leno actually going to run against incumbent Ed Lee for mayor of San Francisco? According to one local news site, he sure as heck is, and will be announcing
SF News Mirkarimi Will Face Challenge By One-Time Acting Sheriff Vicki Hennessy in 2015 It looks like Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will once again have to defend himself against some three-year-old allegations of domestic violence as he attempts a re-election bid next year. And challenging him in the
SF News Does Mark Leno Stand A Chance At Unseating Ed Lee? Just weeks after we wondered if anyone of note might oppose Mayor Ed Lee in his 2015 bid to remain in Room 200, we might have an answer. And it's an interesting one:
SF News Ammiano Could Be Contender Against Mayor Lee, But 'Not Shopping For Drapes Yet' Matier and Ross are just putting this out there: Tom Ammiano is so far the strongest progressive opponent for Mayor Ed Lee when he comes up for re-election in 2015. The openly gay
