SF Politics Gavin Newsom on a Blitz Pushing Prop 1, a Statewide $6.4B Mental Health Bond Remember Gavin’s Newsom’s old “Care Not Cash” phrase? He’s dusting off that rhetoric with the new phrase “Treatment Not Tents,” in hopes of pushing California voters to pass his $6.38 billion mental health bond.
SF Politics Let’s Consider the Upcoming SF Judge Elections, Which Have Been Upended by Pretend ‘Report Cards’ There are two SF Superior Court judge seats up for grabs in next month’s election, and a partisan group has been issuing report cards. These oddly leave out how one supposedly tough-on-crime candidate has a husband with a druggy past.
SF News 'California Forever' Billionaire Group Begins Ballot Initiative Effort to Create New City In Solano County However misguided it may be, the proposal to build a new city out of whole cloth on some agricultural land in Solano County, east of Vallejo, is likely headed to the November ballot, and the signature-gathering effort officially launched Wednesday.
SF Politics Sen. Laphonza Butler Says Being In the Senate Was 'Not on My Bingo Card,' Hopes to Create Space For Younger People In Congress Two months into her tenure, the new junior senator from California, Laphonza Butler, has offered a fuller explanation for why she decided she would not be running for a full six-year term next year.
SF Politics Now Manny Yekutiel Says He Might Run For Mayor Formerly a Breed appointee to the SFMTA board, Mission District cafe owner and general mover about town Manny Yekutiel is now mulling a run for Breed's job.
SF Politics Supervisor Safai’s ‘Cop Tax’ Headed for the March 5 Ballot, But Would Fund More Than Just Cops SF Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safai may have won the first battle in the war of the 2024 SF elections with a new ballot measure tying police staffing to tax revenue, though a colleague called it “the worst-written piece of legislation I think I’ve seen.”
SF Politics South Bay Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Announces She Will Not Run for Reelection Longtime Peninsula Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is planning to retire from the House next year, and she announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking reelection.
Business & Tech Men Behind Latest Sports Gambling Ballot Initiative Revealed to Be Crypto Guy, High-Stakes Poker Guy Two dudes who sold an online gaming platform to a Nevada casino giant believe that they have the winning formula for a ballot measure that legalizes sports betting at tribal casinos in California, and they say they're willing the bankroll the whole thing.
SF News We Have a Winner! Behold SF’s New ‘I Voted’ Sticker After a two-month contest and a week-long voting blitz, SF voters have elected their new “I Voted” sticker, which features parrots, a sea lion, Sutro Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, and of course Karl the Fog.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Makes Candidacy Official For SF Mayor, Says There's 'Hunger For Change' Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
SF Politics It Sure Looks Like Levi Strauss Heir Daniel Lurie Is Running for Mayor Against London Breed Levi Strauss heir and former anti-poverty group Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie just submitted preliminary filings to run for SF mayor in 2024, and he’s expected to officially announce on Tuesday.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Not Retiring, Will Run For Re-Election In 2024 Depending on how you see it, it's either a lioness of Congress keeping hold of her role representing our city in Washington and continuing to school the youngsters in how to get stuff done, or it's another stubborn and aging politician refusing to cede power to the next generation.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Is Hosting Ron DeSantis's Campaign Kick-Off Via Twitter Event Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reportedly plans to formally announce his candidacy for president in 2024 in a live Twitter audio conversation with none other than Elon Musk — signaling, we suppose, the DeSantis camp's bet that potential DeSantis voters can be found among Musk's fanboys.
SF Politics London Breed’s Poll Numbers Are in the Dumps, 60% Disapprove of Job She’s Doing Some terrible poll numbers for SF Mayor London Breed as she sits 18 months from Election Day 2024, as a new poll has her with just a 36% approval rating, while 60% disapprove of her performance.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Ahsha Safai Makes It Official: He's Running For Mayor Confirming a widespread rumor of many months, San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí has filed paperwork making it official that he will run for mayor against London Breed in 2024.
SF Politics New York Times Spotlights Barbara Lee and the Glass Ceiling For Many Black Women In Politics Longtime California Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has thrown her hat in the ring to become the next Senator from California, vying for Dianne Feinstein's seat in what may become an uphill battle.
SF Politics Duuude, Marianne Williamson Is Running For President Again Joe Biden has a challenger for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, and it's crystal-slinging self-help author Marianne Williamson, who just announced that she’s throwing her hat in the ring to run for president again.
SF Politics Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF Politics For the Umpteenth Time, Gavin Newsom Insists He Won't Run for President In 2024 Newsom seems to really want to tamp down the loud rumor that he's looking to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom's Presidential Ambitions On Back Burner, Says He Has 'Sub-Zero Interest' In Running In 2024 There's been plenty of speculation that Gavin Newsom's public sparring with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting them up to be rivals for the White House someday. But for now, as Newsom runs for a second term as California's governor, he says he's rooting for Kamala Harris.
