SF News John Avalos Releases Statement on Election Results After holding out for those uncounted ballots for a couple days, the Avalos for Mayor camp has finally given up the ghost. This afternoon, Team Avalos released a concession letter of sorts. Observe:
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 Avalos Will Wait for Outstanding Ballots, Won't Concede Just Yet Despite every daily paper calling this Mayor's race for interim Mayor Ed Lee, John Avalos continues to stick it to the man, as it were. Although Lee promised to call every one of
SF News Ed Lee Wins San Francisco Mayor's Race [UPDATED] With 61.2% of the votes after eleven rounds of preliminary ranked-choice results, Ed Lee (unofficially) wins the San Francisco Mayor's race, making him the city's first elected Asian-American Mayor. John Avalos, who
Arts & Entertainment Where to Watch Tonight's Election Results After doing your civic duty and picking your favorite three candidates for mayor you'll probably want to keep an eye on those election results tonight to find out just which one of your
SF News Supervisors to Propose Charter Amendment Ending Ranked-Choice Voting [Updated] On the day of San Francisco's first ranked-choice mayoral election, Supervisors Elsbernd and Farrell are set to propose a new charter amendment that would eliminate the new voting system altogether. As first year
SF News California Secretary of State Sending in the Election Monitors After public outcries from concerned San Franciscans (most of them running for mayor themselves) accused Ed Lee supporters of voter fraud and called for election monitors to keep an eye on tomorrow's proceedings,
SF News Ed Lee Campaign Slapped with New Money Laundering Accusations Brace yourselves, folks, the October Surprises have started rolling in, albiet a bit late: As the Chronicle reports today, new allegations of money laundering have hit another already shady supporter of Mayor Ed
SF News Facetious Mustache Institute Endorses Ed Lee for Mayor In another case of out-of-town interests meddling in our local mayoral election, the St. Louis-based (maybe) American Mustache Institute has endorsed our mustachioed temporary mayor in next week's election. The AMI, which considers
SF News San Francisco Reviews: 'The Real Ed Lee: The Untold Untold Story' Over the weekend, yet another "biography" of interim Mayor Ed Lee popped up on doorsteps and in mailboxes of registered voters across town. The book, a parody of the "The Ed Lee Story:
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Here's Supervisor John Avalos' Halloween Costume Not that we generally traffic in these types of paparazzi-esque photos, but here's District 11 Supervisor and candidate for mayor John Avalos with the Avalos for Mayor Party Bus outside The Cinch in
SF News Ed Lee Voter Fraud Flyers Appear at S.F. City Hall SFist contributor Nicole sends word that these Ed Lee Voter Fraud flyers, a response to allegations of ballot fixing, "were literally (literally!) on every pole in Civic Center and environs this morning." Not
SF News Fox News Picks Up Ed Lee Voter Fraud Story Over on Foxnews.com, allegations of voter fraud and mishandling of absentee ballots on the part of Ed Lee supporters have put Mayor Lee's face front and center on the conservative news site.
Arts & Entertainment Brian Wilson, Biz Stone, MC Hammer Claim Ed Lee is '2 Legit 2 Quit' [Video] Here's Ashkon (of the Giants World Series/Don't Stop Believing forced-meme fame) doing MC Hammer's "2 Legit 2 Quit" with Hammer himself, Twitter co-founder/Ed Lee spammer Biz Stone and Giants Closer/Taco
SF News Satirical Write-In Candidate for Mayor Says 'F**k You, Muni' and 'Ban Straight Marriage' As you know, SFist does not make a business of endorsing candidates in elections. But if we were to, theoretically, want to endorse anyone or want to encourage you, the voters, to waste
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: David Chiu's 'Cityball' In their latest move to win the hearts and minds of San Franciscans with mild pop culture references (See also: Chiubacca), Team Chiu has put together a trailer for "Cityball". Which is a
Arts & Entertainment Ed Lee Biography Sparks Controversy, Craigslist Auctions, Book Clubs We briefly mentioned The Ed Lee Story: An Unexpected Mayor in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, but the book's sudden cult following (or backlash, if you prefer) is worth a mention of it's
SF News SF Chronicle Endorses David Chiu for SF Mayor After subjecting candidates to lengthy endorsement interviews, the editorial staff at the paper of record has emerged from whatever smokey backroom it is they discuss these things in (The Tempest, probably) and announced
SF News Mayoral Candidates Vote for Themselves As we mentioned earlier early voting opened today at City Hall. Right on cue, candidates David Chiu, Joanna Rees and Mayor Ed Lee all showed up to cast their votes. Luckily, one of
SF News Early Voting Starts today at SF City Hall If you've already got your mind all made up about your top three candidates for Mayor, District Attorney and sheriff — as well as those various propositions on the November ballot — you should now
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: Bevan Dufty Has More Adorable Children, Lee Sells His Jobs Plan with Google Earth After Bevan Dufty's campaign won our hearts and minds with last week's magical Muni ad, the former D8 supervisor is tugging at our heartstrings again with a new campaign video addressing the city's
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: We Love Bevan Dufty's TV Ad! This is how you do a mayoral campaign TV spot, people. While SFist doesn't do political endorsements -- SF politics remain far too inside-baseball to be comprehensively relevant; we trust that most of
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Raises Way More Cash Than Opponents Mayor Ed Lee and Rose Pak's attempt to maintain power at City Hall will (most likely) prove fruitful come November. (City Hall insiders tell SFist that it's pretty much a done deal at
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 Campaign Borrows Chairman Mao's Slogan First Ed Lee's winning the endorsement of the local Republican party, now his campaign is plastering Chinatown with slogans that bear a striking resemblance to the words of Mao Zedong. As the Epoch
