SF News Mayor Ed Lee Skipped Last Night's Debate to Bar Hop in the Lower Haight Last night's Mayoral debate in the Fillmore doesn't sound like it was very well attended. Out of 12 candidates invited, a third of them didn't show up to the event designed to get
SF News Democratic Club Endorses Avalos and Herrera for Mayor, Snubs Ed Lee and Gascón Last night, the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee voted on their party's official endorsements for November's local elections and judging by the results, the DCCC wants to put some fresh meat in
SF News Dennis Herrera's Plan to Fix Muni While BART gets torn to shreds as of late, let's redirect the unbridled hate where it belongs: on Muni. And because we almost feel bad about ribbing Dennis Herrera about his Sisters of
SF News Castro's 'Stop the Violence' Campaign: Dennis Herrera Rally? [UPDATED] Slammed by noted activist and blogger Michael Petrelis as "a pathetic Sisters event more interested in being full of Kumbaya feelings and promoting two lame politicians," Saturday's Stop the Violence campaign, sparked by
SF News Jeff Adachi Enters the Mayor's Race for Some Reason According to the Examiner, San Francisco Public Defender and creator of a not-so-popular pension reform deal Jeff Adachi has jumped in to the race for Mayor. Today is the final day to file
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Chiu is a Lush, Joanna Caffeinates and Everyone Steps Out at Sunday Streets With a slew of debates and forums on the horizon, the candidates don't seem to be making quite as much time for for boozy meet-and-greets these days. But if you desperately need to
SF News Ed Lee Candidacy Timed for Chinese Lucky Day? Not since Burger King's obnoxious whopper-pulled-from-the-menu effort have we seen a campaign as obviously bogus as the faux-grassroots Run, Ed, Run. It was that bad, that transparent. Nevertheless, Lee's announcement on Monday that,
SF News Phil Ting Attacks Mayor Lee, Asks Candidates to Stop Attacks San Francisco Assessor-Recorder and mayoral candidate Phil Ting today demanded fellow candidate Mayor Ed Lee to follow the rules of public financing spending limits. 'If Mayor Lee wants to raise money outside of
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's Mayoral Debate at the Castro Theatre Not sure if you heard about it, but there was a big Mayoral Debate last night. Technically put on by the Castro/Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association and the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association, the
SF News Constituent Asks Jane Kim Why She's Still Single During a campaign walk-around in the Mission today with mayoral hopeful Ed Lee, stunningly beautiful District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim faced some tough questioning from a constituent. As Mike Aldax reports in the
SF News Temporary Mayor Ed Lee Announcing His Full-Term Run at 9 a.m. Today In case you missed the four articles about it in Sunday's Chronicle, Temporary Mayor Ed Lee is set to make an unspecified announcement at 9 a.m. this morning from the Department of
SF News Your Mayoral Candidates by the Numbers (Or Dollars) It's been awhile since we've checked in on the fundraising numbers for each mayoral candidate, which is why we're thoroughly enjoying this breakdown of each campaign's funds and expenditures today. Wonky types will
SF News Does This Failed 'Bachelorette' Contestant Really Want to Be Mayor of S.F.? After being rejected by Bachelorette Ashley Hebert on national television Monday night, scorned suitor Ben Flajnik of Sonoma took to Twitter to redefine his role in the world as "winemaker, failed proposer, and
SF News Roughly 100 Turn Out for 'Run Ed Run' Rally at City Hall On the steps of City Hall this afternoon, roughly 100 people gathered to pretend urge Temporary Mayor Ed Lee to officially enter the Mayor's Race and run for a full term in November.
SF News Yes, Ed Is Probably Going to Run Those Run Ed Run people, and their rosey-cheeked maker Rose Pak, appear to have swayed their reluctant candidate, ladies and gentlemen. Seven months and two trips to the White House later, Interim Mayor
Arts & Entertainment Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Avalos' Happy Hour, Dufty and Chiu's Jazz Hands, Joanna Rees' Coffee Talks John Avalos: San Francisco's League of Pissed Off Voters has stepped up (or jumped the gun, depending on how you look at it) and named the progressive candidate/oldies DJ as their official
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Coffee with Yee, Avalos, Ting and Alioto-Pier at Happy Hour John Avalos, Michela Alioto-Pier and Phil Ting: The occasional DJ and the guy with the big Reset Button will be appearing together with lady candidate Michela Alioto-Pier forthe San Francisco Women's Political Committee's
SF News Mayoral Cameo: DJ John Avalos to Appear at The Knockout Tomorrow Night Tomorrow night, popular retro-dive hangout The Knockout is getting a special guest DJ. According to the Examiner and the event's Facebook page, D11 Supervisor/Mayoral hopeful John Avalos will be taking a turn
SF News 'New York Times' Makes Fun of Us Re: Mayor's Race The NYT finds the situation in S.F., with "anywhere from 9 to 37 people running to become mayor," quite amusing. The headline: "San Francisco Is Awash With Mayoral Candidates," and the story
SF News Rose Pak Discusses Why She Supports a Reluctant Ed Lee for Mayor At Saturday's opening of the official unofficial Ed Lee campaign headquarters on Mission street and Van Ness, reporters caught up with Rose Pak, the woman San Francisco political writers love to label as
SF News Ed Lee Pushers Skirting Campaign Limits With Political Action Committee As if the RunEdRun.org campaign didn't have us feeling icky enough already, the Examiner highlights some dodgy politics behind the campaign's funding today. Because Ed Lee is not officially running for Mayor,
SF News Ed Lee's Campaign Office Opening Saturday, Rose Pak Ordered 20,000 Fake Mustaches The accused astroturfers from Left Coast Consulting plan to step up their attempts to nudge temporary mayor Ed Lee in to the current mayor's race by opening up an unofficial official campaign HQ
SF News Which S.F. Mayoral Hopeful Didn't Vote in 24 Elections? Venture capitalist Joanna Rees, that's who. According to an excellent article in the Examiner published today, one that "broke down the voting history of the mayoral hopefuls," the Jason Lewis-approved candidate missed most
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's SF Mayoral Open Government Forum Arriving late to the Pier 38 offices of Automattic yesterday evening for a mayoral candidate forum on Open Government, we caught the tail end of opening remarks from a panel comprised of the
Arts & Entertainment Weekly Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Dufty Bar Crawl, Progressive Forum, Pancake Breakfast John Avalos: While the progressive's top choice for mayor won't be in attendance, you can check out the first in a series of (presumably pro-Avalosian) SF Bay Guardian-sponsored mayoral forums starting tonight. "The
