SF Politics SF Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track Alleges That Rev. Amos Brown Came to His Business and 'Threatened' Him A tempest in a teapot story from last week saw local rapper Chino Yang saying “someone extremely powerful” threatened him over a London Breed diss track. But we now learn it was allegedly just 82-year-old, long-ago SF supervisor Rev. Amos Brown.
SF Politics Supervisors Approve Ballot Measure to Move the Year We Elect the Mayor This November you will vote on which November will be the time you vote on who will be San Francisco's mayor, as the Board of Supervisors approves Sup. Dean Preston’s ballot measure to move the SF mayoral election to presidential election years.
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 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
SF News Political Posters Defiled Day Before Election Day On the day before Election Day, posters for Mayor Ed Lee (who, according to Bay Citizen, has a more-than-decent shot of winning), Chris Cunnie, and George Gascon are defaced with Occupy Wall Street-esque
Arts & Entertainment Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate John Avalos Our second Pieces candidate (!) John Avalos has a rabid fan base compared to the other mayoral contenders. The notably progressive supervisor represents District 11, which consists of Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, Ingleside, Oceanview, and the
SF News Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate Jeff Adachi Receiving his B.A. from the UC, Berkeley in 1981 and his J.D. from the UC Hastings in 1985, Jeff Adachi once acted as the president of the Asian American Bar Association
SF News Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate Bevan Dufty Behold Bevan Dufty, your wittiest San Francisco mayoral candidate. The openly Pisces / former District 8 supervisor devoted more than 18 years of service to San Francisco, including eight years on the Board of
SF News Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate David Chiu Serving his second term as President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, David Chiu stunned many wonk insiders after snatching the coveted SF Chronicle mayoral endorsement. Chiu serves as Supervisor for District
Arts & Entertainment Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate Michela Alioto-Pier SFist takes its popular Twentysomething interviewing feature to your top (sane) San Francisco mayoral candidates. Everyone from Ed Lee to Joanna Rees to Bevan Dufty to David Chiu will get a chance. We
SF News Ed Lee Campaign Accused of Voting Fraud Mayor Ed Lee and SF Neighbor Alliance, the bogus grassroots effort that pooped out the cringe-worthy Run, Ed, Run campaign, are under fire this week after witnesses revealed to The Chronicle that they
SF News Where Have All the Good Budget Times Gone? It's kinda like on the "the Wire" when the outgoing Mayor decided to get revenge on the guy who beat him in the Mayoral Race by not telling anyone that the educational system
SF News More On That Crazy Sean Penn Story A little birdie sent us an e-mail concerning the story about Sean Penn's recent desire to wade into the wonderful world of SF politics. According to said birdie, Madonna’s ex was watching
SF News TourkGate: So What Happens Next? Well, that was certainly a mortified apology and a hasty retreat. We'll take Chris "The High Road" Daly's cue and refrain from comment about the principal players in this sad story -- but
