SF Politics Kamala Harris for California Governor? New Poll Shows She'd Be the Frontrunner A new LA Times poll finds the job of succeeding Gavin Newsom as California Governor could easily be Kamala Harris’s if she wanted it, in large part because hardly anyone recognizes the names of the other people expected to run.
SF News Peter Thiel Reportedly Mulling Run For Governor Of California "If you can dream it, you can do it," people frequently claim Walt Disney famously said. And when it comes to allegedly aspiring baby blood consumer and Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, his newest
SF News Drought Rules Revised Based On Feedback, SF In Most Lenient Water Usage Tier On Saturday, state water regulators issued a revised plan based on Governor Jerry Brown's April 1 mandate that everyone statewide cut back on water usage by 25 percent. The new plan takes into
SF News As You Might Have Expected, Gavin Newsom Announces That He Is Running For Governor In 2018 For the second time in recent years, former San Francisco mayor and current Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom will run for Governor of California, he announced in a "personal" email sent to
SF News Schwarzenegger Not Pumped Up About Alimony After California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a member of his household staff, his wife Maria Shriver filed for divorce. Adding insult to injury, Schwarzenegger doesn't want to pay
SF News And Yes, Moonbeam Redux Nixes Redevelopment As we mentioned last week, redevelopment funds looked to be on the chopping block in Jerry Brown's budget, and it was. The governor is looking to save $2.7 billion by cuttting off
SF News Prison Guards' Union Endorses Jerry Brown Jerry Brown scored another coup (not that it will matter) when the state's prison guards' union endorsed him for governor. Sacto Bee reports, "California Correctional Peace Officers Association President Mike Jimenez said in
SF News Gray Davis > Arnold Schwarzenegger According to a new Field Poll (pdf), California voter give Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger "the lowest rating for a sitting governor in more than 50 years," trumping Gray Davis as one of California's worst
SF News Jerry Brown Makes It Official: He's Running for Governor After staying off the radar for months now, Jerry Brown has officially entered the California gubernatorial race. Ta-da. If elected to the position for a second time, Brown will, as SFist commenter MalcoveMagnesia
SF News Jerry Brown To Announce Gubernatorial Candidacy Attorney General and former Governor Jerry Brown is expected to toss his hat into the gubernatorial ring today, making his candidacy official. Brown had filed to form an exploratory committee in September of
SF News Breaking: Newsom Drops Out of Governor's Race Newsom's out. Here is the official press release. It is with great regret I announce today that I am withdrawing from the race for governor of California. With a young family and responsibilities
SF News <em>Newsweek</em> to Newsom: Implosion Impending Topped off with one of the harshest headlines aimed at Gavin Newsom yet ("The Impending Implosion of CA Gov Hopeful Gavin Newsom"), Newsweek scribe Daniel Stone says that the San Francisco Mayor's current
SF News Meg Whitman Officially Announces Her Gubernatorial Bid If elected, the former eBay CEO -- a bigot who, at best, considers the homosexuals second-class citizens, or at least that's what she would lead the public to believe -- will cut state
SF News Quote du Jour: Renter Relief Package Vetoed Even with Newsom lapcat Bevan Duffy supporting part of Chris Daly's Renter Relief Package, the mayor still vetoed what might have provided a modicum of financial relief for SF renters. (As opposed to,
SF News Sarah Palin Quits Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin announced today that "she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House
misc Poll: And Your Next California Governor Is... Last night, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom "officially kicked off his campaign" for governor of California 2010. That is to say, you'll see even less of Newsom over the next year or so. If
SF News Newsom Throws $100,000 Block Party While trolling over in Sacramento this past weekend at the Democratic convention, Mayor Gavin Newsom, according to Matier et Ross, threw a $100,000 block party. Would you expect anything less? Anyway, the
SF News Newsom Takes Aim at Brown During this weekend's state Democratic convention in Sacramento, Gavin Newsom took aim at 71-year-old attorney general Jerry Brown. Newsom, who officially tossed his hat into the gubernatorial ring last week, told the crowd
SF News Newsom Already Raises $15,000 by 1 p.m. After announcing his bid for candidacy for California Governor this morning, Mayor Gavin Newsom sent this message via Twitter, "We've raised $15,000 online today. Thank you for the support. Help us reach
SF News It's Official: Newsom Launches Run for Governor "It"s Official" And so begins San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's announcement that he will, in fact, run for Governor of California. Which most of you already knew. He announced it over Twitter,
SF News Breaking News: Newsom's Haircare Product Revealed March 17, 2009 will go down in the history books, and Ryan Seacrest will be looked back on as the Woodward/Bernstein of our time. See, the American Idol host blew the lid
SF News State Voters Don't Like Gavin Newsom Aw boo. It's one thing for locals to hate on San Francisco Mayor Newsom -- let's face it, most of you Bay Area types are out-of-state Asperger's Syndrome cases who zombieishly loathe anything
SF News Father to Newsom, "Don't Do It" Mayor Gavin Newsom sent out his latest exploratory missive about running for Governor for the state of California. Yay. Newsom starts out declaring, "When I first started talking to friends and family about
SF News Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Set To Make Foolish Run For CA Governor Noted Republican, Silicon Valley resident, and gay-marriage hater Meg Whitman is all set to take over Sacramento, at least according to an AP article. "The person was not authorized to talk publicly and
SF News Newsom Suffers Through Marin Priorities During Town Hall Meeting During some sort of pre-meeting to see if maybe, perhaps, possibly Newsom wants to throw his hat into the California's Governor race, the San Francisco Mayor held a "beta meeting" at his alma
