SF Politics SF’s Two Biggest Billionaire-Backed Political Agitator Groups Are Merging After Getting Thumped In Election After two big-bucks moderate political action committees spent nearly $10 million on failed attempts to elect Mark Farrell and pass Prop D, the groups Neighbors for a Better San Francisco and TogetherSF are licking their wounds and merging into one.
SF Politics Tuesday's Election Did Not Produce Big Wins For TogetherSF, Despite Spending a Lot of Michael Moritz's Money After spending nearly $3.2 million of his own money in this election, Michael Moritz can't be extremely pleased by the results that he and his TogetherSF Action group were able to achieve.
SF Politics Michael Moritz Says He Plans to Fund Together SF For 'Five or Six Years' In Lengthy New Profile There are a number of revelations in an extensive new profile of billionaire philanthropist and political activist Michael Moritz by Mission Local's Joe Eskenazi, including what he sees as the trajectory of his political group, Together SF Action.
SF News SF Billionaire's 17-Story Condo Proposal Appears Dead In the Water, Which Partly Explains His Feud With Aaron Peskin SF Standard owner Michael Moritz trashed Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the NY Times yesterday. Today we get some insight into why, as a Telegraph Hill condo project Moritz is backing just had its applications canceled, though mostly because of a missed deadline.
SF Politics Local Billionaire Michael Moritz Pens Another NYT Op-Ed, This Time Attacking Aaron Peskin For the second time in two years, billionaire Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz has taken to the New York Times Opinion pages to spout off about San Francisco politics, and this time his aim seems to be to ensure no one includes Aaron Peskin on their ranked-choice ballots.
SF News Mystery Group Behind Solano County Land-Grab Revealed to Be Silicon Valley VC Types, Plus Steve Jobs's Widow It didn't take the New York Times very long to get to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Solano County officials for several years, namely the identity of the people behind a massive buy-up of farmland totaling over $800 million.
