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 News 21-Year-Old Tech Entrepreneur And Amateur Rapper Enters 2019 Mayor's Race We're still a long way from November 2019, when San Francisco will be deciding on its next mayor. We know that former SF supervisor and state senator Mark Leno is in the running,
SF News Why Is Mark Leno Entering The Mayor's Race So Early, And Where's Ed Lee Been Lately? As we learned the other week, former state senator, assemblyman, and SF supervisor Mark Leno has announced he's running for mayor in 2019, i.e. almost two and a half years from now.
SF News Ammiano Could Be Contender Against Mayor Lee, But 'Not Shopping For Drapes Yet' Matier and Ross are just putting this out there: Tom Ammiano is so far the strongest progressive opponent for Mayor Ed Lee when he comes up for re-election in 2015. The openly gay
Arts & Entertainment Too $hort Performing in S.F for Mayoral Candidate: 10/12 You know what makes for a mildly interesting election -- i.e., the opposite of the current San Francisco mayoral race? Celebrities. Speaking of which, Bay Area hip-hop legend Too $hort will headline
SF News Another Candidate Throws Hat In the Mayor's Race Ring, Bringing Total to 16 The already stupidly crowded to become Mayor of San Francisco just got more crowded, as the Ex reports on the candidacy of Emil Lawrence, a San Francisco cab driver who paid the $5,
SF News Leland Yee Camp Responds to Tell Us Which Team He's On After we questioned Leland Yee's voting record yesterday, the Yee for Mayor campaign reached out to us to provide some additional perspective on the story. Obviously, the BeyondChron story we linked to yesterday
SF News Leland Yee Not Entirely Sure Whose Team He's On State Senator and shark fin soup slurper Leland Yee recently won an endorsement from the Sierra Club in his campaign for the top job in City Hall. It was a curious endorsement, given
SF News Mayoral Candidates Trade Words Over Pay Raises [Mayor Fight!] The Examiner's Ken Garcia might be bored by the Mayor's Race, but over at the Chronicle the mud has started to fly. After last week's news that some city officials will be getting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Mayoral Hopeful Joanna Rees' "Sex and the City" Cocktail Hour After last week's meet-the-mayoral-candidates event at the Chinatown YMCA, we came away with a sophomoric impression of Joanna Rees: that she was definitely your girlfriend. Which is to say, she strikes us as
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Monday Night's CAA Meet the Mayoral Candidates Event Monday night in the gymnasium of the Chinatown YMCA, seven of the total 24 declared candidates for Mayor showed up to discuss their respective platforms and shill for an audience assembled by Chinese
SF News Supervisor Weiner Endorses Dennis Herrera for Mayor While we're on the subject of mayorship, District 8 Supervisor Scott Weiner officially endorsed City Attorney Dennis Herrera today. "I’ve seen firsthand that Dennis has the leadership style we need in our
SF News Michela Alioto-Pier Throws Her Hat in to the Mayor's Race Were she the sort to be spotted wearing a hat, we imagine it would be a sassy fedora, but all personal style issues aside: former District 2 Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is now Mayoral
SF News How's That Fundraising Going, Mayoral Hopefuls? Campaign Financing reports for 2011 Mayoral hopefuls started coming in to the city's Ethics Commission yesterday, meaning we get an early look at who has how much money behind their campaign. According to
SF News Jean Quan and Ed Lee to Attend White House State Dinner Newly elected Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has gotten a ton of press in China for being the first Chinese- or Asian-American mayor in her city, and thus she was invited to attend a
misc Exploratory Blogging "My name is Tony Hall, and I am honored that you are visiting my blog." - Former Supervisor Tony Hall, kicking off a blog post announcing he has put together a committee to
SF News Supes Decide on How to Pick a Mayor Well, we're ever-so-slightly closer to actually choosing an interim mayor. The Appeal reports that last night the Board of Supervisors approved a process to select who will win a year's supply of Gavin's
SF News <em>Chron</em> Discusses the Fight for a Progressive Interim Mayor The Chron treads into Guardian territory today to discuss the drama surrounding the choice for interim mayor, which will be made by a liberal-majority Board of Supervisors in a simple majority vote. Do
SF News We Read the Weeklies It's Wednesday, and we at SFist are going to revive a long-ago feature in which we tirelessly read, and summarize, the stories of note in this week's alt-weeklies. We like to be service-y
SF News Leland Yee to Announce His Candidacy for Mayor Via SF Weekly's blog this a.m. we see that former supervisor and assemblyman Leland Yee may be looking to become S.F.'s first Asian mayor -- that is unless David Chiu
