SF Politics Joel Engardio Becomes New SF Supervisor for District 4 as Gordon Mar Concedes Close Race With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Final Local Ballot Measures Called: Prop M Vacancy Tax Wins, Prop E Affordable Housing Measure Falls The dust appears settled on the final two undetermined SF ballot measures, and the vacant homes tax has passed, while both of the dueling affordable housing ballot measures are shot down.
SF Politics Both Sports Betting Props Go Down In Flames Despite Huge Spending; Prop 30 Also Fails Our long, statewide nightmare of sports-betting campaign commercials for dueling propositions is over, and for now California voters have roundly rejected all expansion of sports gambling — at casinos or otherwise.
SF Politics SF Props Roundup: Car-Free JFK Wins, Mayoral Election Years Moved, Dueling Affordable Housing Props Still Dueling Big victories in local SF propositions for car-free JFK Drive, moving the mayoral election year, and a vacant homes tax, but the affordable housing propositions D and E are still locked in battle.
SF Politics Mayoral Appointees Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey Hold Leads as Ranked-Choice Results Are Tabulated Two closely watched city races, the District 6 supervisor race and the district attorney's race, do not yet have final results — but both Brooke Jenkins and Matt Dorsey appear to hold solid leads.
SF News The US Department of Justice Has Dispatched Poll Watchers to Sonoma County Sonoma County was selected to be one of 64 voting jurisdictions around the country in which federal election monitors are being deployed today, in an effort to protect voting rights and ensure people have access to the polls.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Denies New Trial Elizabeth Holmes has been denied her new trial and will be sentenced next week, a 37-year-old Brisbane man has been charged in death of a man he allegedly punched and knocked to the ground in North Beach, and the morning rain caused some minor flooding around the Bay.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Campaign Drops Nearly $2 Million To Defeat Electric Car Measure Prop 30 Supposedly climate-friendly Governor Newsom’s campaign just gave nearly $1.9 million to defeat Prop. 30, the millionaire tax that would help fund California’s conversion to electric cars only.
SF Politics What’s the Deal With These Dueling SF Affordable Housing Measures, Props D and E? The competing affordable housing measure Props D and E have incredibly similar wording, but their big-money backers are polar-opposite coalitions of tech investors on one hand, and trade unions on the other.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sports-Betting Prop Backers Admit Defeat The backers of two competing sports-betting ballot measures know the props are toast, BBQ chef Matt Horn faces public complaints about bounced checks, and our unusually (for October) damp and foggy weather continues.
SF Politics Once Again We're Voting On a Dialysis-Clinic Prop — Here's the Deal At its heart, this is a unionization fight, but it's one that keeps coming up because there is so much money on the table — and because the arguments are compelling.
SF Politics Pile of Poop Prominently Placed In Political Pamphlet Now Arriving In SF Mailboxes The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it’s largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department
SF Politics SF Street Sweepers Are Rallying Today In Opposition of Prop B — the Supes' Effort to Nix a New Sanitation Department Proposition B, if it passes in November, will negate part of the voter-approved Proposition B that passed two years ago creating a new city department responsible only for cleaning streets and sidewalks.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
SF Politics Dueling Sports Gambling Ballot Measures Have Tribes, Sportsbooks Spending Big on Misleading Ads There are probably no good guys in the November ballot fight over gambling measures Props 26 and 27, but there is a record $425 million going into ads from tribes and online sportsbooks determined to grab financial control of internet sports betting in California.
SF Politics Not Going Down Without a Fight, Supe Candidate Leanna Louie Is Now Suing the City Would-be District 4 supervisorial candidate Leanna Louie held herself a rally/press conference Tuesday morning to announce that she is suing the city over being struck from the November ballot over residency issues.
SF Politics Matt Haney Claims Victory In Assembly Race, Giving Mayor Breed a Board Seat Appointment SF's District 6 will be getting a new appointed supervisor and the city is getting a new face in the Assembly after Tuesday's runoff election — it's just that we'll have to vote on this seat twice more this year.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Endorses Matt Haney in AD-17 Race, Which Of Course, Because She Would Get to Appoint His Replacement Two weeks out from the AD-17 special election for the state Assembly, Mayor London Breed has endorsed Supervisor Matt Haney over David Campos — no surprise considering that Haney’s exit from the Board of Supervisors would award Breed the chance for a hand-picked replacement.
SF Politics Campos Draws Groans, Backlash for Saying His Campaign Is ‘Fighting and Running Like Ukrainians’ in Assembly Race A hamfisted comparison by David Campos that his campaign was “fighting and running like Ukrainians” in his state Assembly race against Matt Haney is getting eyerolls and disapproval, right as early voting kicks off.
SF Politics All Three School Board Members Recalled In Landslide This election, with eyes on it from around the country, proved to be a clear referendum on the school board, despite relatively low voter turnout.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: It's the First of Many SF Election Days In 2022 It's school board recall/Assembly seat election day in SF, a teen skier died during a competition at Palisades Tahoe on Sunday, and John Madden's widow threw shade on the Raiders' move to Las Vegas during his memorial.
SF Politics Pelosi Announces She Will Seek Reelection For a 19th (!) Term In Congress The House Speaker announced she’s running for yet another term in Congress, but did not address whether she would run for Speaker again, and that’s a moot point anyway if Republicans win the chamber back.
