SF News Election Winners (SF Propositions, Gavin Newsom) And Losers (287,000 Voters) As the (twitter, booze, whatever) hangovers from yesterday's primary election fade, the winners and losers become (somewhat) clearer. Local wins include those for a waterfront development proposition and an earthquake bond measure, while
SF News Oh, Yeah, There's An Election Today! Did You Vote? The day you've been waiting for is here at last! OK, not really, but there is an election today. Have you voted in what the Chronicle predicted might be "the lowest primary election
SF News San Francisco's Transportation Funding Ballot Measure Plan By The Numbers $1.5 billion: The approximate amount of money San Francisco is attempting to generate with multiple voter-approved initiatives this November $635 million: The portion of that money that would go toward Muni $625
SF News Oh No, Leland Yee: He Pulled Out Of Secretary Of State Race In a move that should surprise no one, politically bedraggled Senator Leland Yee pulled out of the race for California Secretary of State today. Sacto Bee reports: "He sent a letter to Secretary
SF News Jerry Brown To Run For Historic Fourth Stint As Governor Taking out papers to run for re-election. http://t.co/3n0YKjRU9r pic.twitter.com/b8pNupZ0ts— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) February 27, 2014 Doing so with heaps of "humility," California Governor Jerry Brown filed papers
SF News Dueling 8 Washington Props Go Down In Flames Setting aside for a moment the absurdity of having the entire city vote on a single development project that upset a group of neighbors, we bring you the news that you've maybe already
SF News Campos Wants Ammiano's Assembly Seat Continuing the path paved by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D9's David Campos tossed his hat into the ring to take Tom's seat once he's termed out. BCN/NBC Bay Area notes: "If Campos wins
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Newsom Is Departing Current TV Immediately following yesterday's news that Al Jazeera had bought Current TV, Gavin Newsom announces that he'll be taking his seven-month-old Gavin Newsom Show off the air. According to Newsom spokesman and infamous SFist
SF News Norman Yee Barely Leads In Historically Close D7 Race A week after election day, the race for the next Supervisor in the Parkside-to-Lakeside District 7 is down to a 33 vote lead for school board president and photoshopper of questionable taste Norman
SF News D5 Candidate Julian Davis Denies Sexual Assault Allegations [Update] Julian Davis is running for supervisor of District 5. He's also a longtime fixture of San Francisco's admittedly bro-lopsided progressive community. In an email sent to supporters today, Davis has denied allegations that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Coffee At 7-Eleven This Friday For those of you who don't fret over your latte leaf being just right, Friday you can grab a free cup of coffee at your nearest 7-Eleven. The noted junk food chain will
SF News District Attorney Drops Voter Fraud Case Against Ed Lee Campaign Nearly a year after supporters of Mayor Ed Lee's campaign were smacked with accusations of voter fraud, District Attorney Gascón has decided there is insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges. In the October
SF News Will Incumbent Supervisors Be Punished In the Election For How They Vote on Mirkarimi? Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, as you should know by now, remains suspended pending a decision by the Board of Supervisors as to whether his admitted "false imprisonment" and presumed abuse of his wife rises
SF News Ron Paul Glitter Bombed In Minneapolis As the only GOP presidential candidate without a glitter bombing to his name, Ron Paul probably should have seen the sparkling shower coming by now. As CityPages reports this morning, the Texas Congressman
SF News Rick Santorum: Loves America But Invests In Outsourcing Firms In what's proving to be a race to the bottom for the current crop of GOP candidates, Rick Santorum—whose "Made In America" platform plan would prune corporate income taxes on manufacturing companies
SF News Newt Gingrich Doesn't Want Gay America's Vote Confused GOP candidate Newt Gingrich surprised absolutely no one when he told gay voters to back Obama. According to the Des Moines Register, an Iowa gay asked the former U.S. House Speaker
SF News Tuesday's Election: S.F.'s Lowest for a Mayoral Contest Suspicions confirmed: Tuesday's election had terrible voter turnout. How terrible? Including the ballots we're stil waiting to see counted, the total turnout will be around 40% of registered voters. Or: the lowest turnout
SF News Gascón Holds Clear Lead in District Attorney's Race, Still Lacks Majority As with the Mayoral and Sheriff's races, yesterday's contest for the District Attorney's office left a clear frontrunner but not a clear majority. Current interim DA George Gascón leads the contest after the
SF News Mirkarimi Leads Close Sheriff's Race In another tense decision, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi currently leads the race for the Sheriff's seat with just a hair over 38% of the votes. As with the the mayor's race, no clear majority
SF News Ed Lee Wins First Round In SF Mayor's Race With the people's candidate John Avalos trailing behind, interim Mayor Ed Lee came in first after last night's votes were counted--due in part to absentee ballots filed before election night--but failed to hit
SF News Election Night Results 6:26 p.m.: Polls will close at 8 p.m., which is when we'll crown Ed Lee the next mayor of San Francisco we'll find out the results. Until then, your SFist
Arts & Entertainment Where to Watch Tonight's Election Results After doing your civic duty and picking your favorite three candidates for mayor you'll probably want to keep an eye on those election results tonight to find out just which one of your
SF News California Secretary of State Sending in the Election Monitors After public outcries from concerned San Franciscans (most of them running for mayor themselves) accused Ed Lee supporters of voter fraud and called for election monitors to keep an eye on tomorrow's proceedings,
SF News Fox News Picks Up Ed Lee Voter Fraud Story Over on Foxnews.com, allegations of voter fraud and mishandling of absentee ballots on the part of Ed Lee supporters have put Mayor Lee's face front and center on the conservative news site.
Arts & Entertainment Brian Wilson, Biz Stone, MC Hammer Claim Ed Lee is '2 Legit 2 Quit' [Video] Here's Ashkon (of the Giants World Series/Don't Stop Believing forced-meme fame) doing MC Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" with Hammer himself, Twitter co-founder/Ed Lee spammer Biz Stone and Giants Closer/Taco
