SF Politics SF’s Moderate Candidates Duke It Out at Debate Peskin Skipped Because He Figured It Was Rigged Monday night saw another SF mayoral debate, this one largely dominated by the topics of crime and homelessness, but Aaron Peskin refused to show because he felt the organizers already had the fix in for Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie.
SF Politics Lights Went Out as Candidates Were Speaking at Monday Night’s Very Glitchy SF Mayoral Debate It was literally a “lights out” performance, and not in a good way, on Monday night when the five major candidates running for San Francisco mayor debated at UC Law, and repeated technical glitches marred the night’s proceedings.
SF Politics In First SF Mayoral Debate, Crowd’s Jeers are More Memorable Than Candidates’ Performances All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
SF Politics We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17 After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Both of Monday’s Scheduled SF Mayoral Debates Have Now Crashed and Burned A naming contest is underway for the Berkeley falcon chicks; there’s more Gaza protest controversy at Sonoma State University; and one of Monday’s mayoral debates got canceled while the other one now only has two candidates participating.
SF Politics London Breed, Aaron Peskin Beg Off From Monday Mayoral Candidate Debate By TogetherSF, Will Host Their Own Thing A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
SF Politics Breed Threatens to Back Out of First Mayoral Debate, Questions Whether It Might Be Rigged by Organizer The first SF Mayoral debate is in less than two weeks, but London Breed may be a no-show, as there are ties surfacing between the debate’s tech PAC organizer, and both the Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie campaigns.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Mayor's Debate Live at 6 p.m. Eleven of the San Francisco mayoral candidates will gather at San Francisco's historic and tony City Club for yet another round of debates. While, sadly, neither Melissa Griffin nor Beth Spotswood will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's Going on Here, Mayoral Forum on Urban Agriculture? Above is a photo of the crowd and candidates for mayor who showed up to debate issues relating to urban agriculture and green schoolyard initiatives at the SFUAA mayoral forum. From the looks
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
Arts & Entertainment Notes from Thursday Night's Mayoral Debate: Round Two with Ed Lee Thursday night at the African American Art & Cultural Complex in the Western Addition, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club and the San Francisco Young Democrats hosted nine of everybody's favorite candidates
SF News Thursday Night: Ed Lee, et al. Set for Mayoral Debate Round #2 Well, this should prove absolutely uneventful and 100% quiet with no fuss or muss. On Thursday, the fine folks that make up the San Francisco Young Democrats will host yet another mayoral debate
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 Ed Lee to Appear at First Mayoral Debate Tonight This mayoral debate is going to be big, with a 99% chance of people heckling the stage. Why? Because Mayor Ed Lee, who announced today his intentions to run for full term, will
