SF Politics Joel Engardio Has 4-1 Money Advantage to Fight the Recall, and the Recall’s Head Organizer Just Quit The same recall fever that Joel Engardio rode into office could still boot him out, as the recallers say they’re “on track” to make the ballot. But the recall’s main organizer just quit, and Engardio has big donations from local tech founders and CEOs.
SF Politics Recall Sheng Thao Rally Devolves Into Chaos When Passerby Gets Called Out by Name, Tries to Grab Microphone There may not have been many people attending a Recall Sheng Thao rally on Tuesday in Oakland, but it’s making headlines anyway, as a businessman walking past was yelled at from onstage, confronted the speaker, and mayhem ensued.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Touts Drop In Oakland Crime and $2 Million Crime-Fighting Grant, as Recall Election Looms Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is trumpeting a 33% drop in crime and a new $2 million federal grant to the city's crime-fighting ceasefire strategy, but a couple major Bay Area newspapers just endorsed recalling her.
SF Politics Former Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Endorses Sheng Thao Recall, and Maybe Never Liked Thao That Much Anyway Previous Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf came out swinging in favor of recalling current mayor Sheng Thao on Friday, which may not be surprising, as Schaaf had always endorsed Thao’s rival Loren Taylor.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Insists She Was Not a Target of FBI Raid in Fiery Chronicle Interview Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave an interview to the Chronicle, claiming the FBI has informed her she was not a target in the raid on her home, and insisting that the recall effort against her is 80% funded by one donor who does not even live in Oakland.
SF Politics Report: Alameda DA Pamela Price Had 1,000 Misdemeanor Cases Dismissed Because Her Office Simply Blew Filing Deadlines A possible October Surprise in next month’s recall election of Alameda County DA Pamela Price comes in a new report that claims that more than 1,000 misdemeanor offenders walked free because Price’s office missed deadlines to file charges.
SF Politics Effort To Recall Mayor Sheng Thao Qualifies for the November Oakland Ballot Recall-mania is back in 2024, as a group hoping to recall Mayor Sheng Thao has enough verified signatures to make the November 2024 ballot and possibly remove the embattled mayor.
SF Politics Pamela Price Recall Election Date Set, and It Won’t Be Until November 5 The effort to recall Alameda County DA Pamela Price now has an election date set, but recall supporters are not happy that it won’t be for another six months, and instead of a one-off special election it will be November 5.
SF Politics DA Pamela Price Accused of Retaliating Against Employees Who Supported Her Opponents While the recall campaign against her just hit a signature snag, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is also getting some bad publicity today over some wrongful termination claims from former employees.
SF Politics The ‘Recall Pamela Price’ Crowd Has Submitted Their Signatures for Recall Attempt Against Alameda County DA The political group trying to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price submitted what they say are 123,000 signatures to get their measure on the ballot, though 73,000 of them have to be proven to be valid.
SF Politics Sigh, Republican Group Trying to Recall Governor Gavin Newsom Yet Again The same group that blew $276 million in taxpayer money on the 2021 attempt to recall Gavin Newsom, only to get clobbered by 25 percentage points, has served papers for their attempt to recall Newsom yet again.
SF News Supporters of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Push Back on Recall Campaigners, Comparing Them to 'Right-Wingers' Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a press conference Wednesday to announce a state grant supporting a street-ambassador program, but protesters were on hand calling for Thao's recall, and the event turned into a shouting match.
SF Politics Very Predictably, Effort to Recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Now Afoot It’s unclear whether this is a real grassroots movement, or just sour grapes from defeated candidates in the last mayoral election, but the signature gathering is underway to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF Politics The Recall Pamela Price Campaign Kicks Off Its Signature-Gathering Effort Here we go again with another district attorney recall campaign, as paid signature gatherers made their first big official push Sunday to collect the 73,000 signatures they need to force a recall election on Alameda County DA Pamela Price.
SF Politics San Mateo Mayor Faces Recall Effort After Barely Two Months On the Job Recall-mania is back! San Mateo Mayor Amourence Lee was just elected in December, but already faces a recall effort, one which seems entirely about rehashing the circumstances of her election.
SF Politics Wealthy SF Recall Backer Pumping Millions to DeSantis and J.D. Vance, Hyping That Ukraine Needs to Surrender One of the most prominent funders of all three big recall campaigns is now the MAGA movement’s San Francisco money man, and David Sacks is also on a curious kick preaching that Ukraine needs to surrender to Putin.
SF Politics Breed Goes on ‘Meet the Press’ as Small Potatoes, Off-Year School Board Recall Still Making National Headlines SF’s low-turnout, off-year local school board race is still generating national coverage as a revolt against the “woke left,” and Mayor London Breed hit ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to ride that narrative.
SF Politics SF Recalls Largely Funded by ‘Neighbors for a Better San Francisco’ PAC, Which Is Based in San Rafael A full two-thirds of the Recall Chesa Boudin money, and 25% of Recall the School Board contributions, comes from a secretive PAC called “Neighbors for a Better San Francisco,” which lists its address as being in San Rafael.
SF Politics Sacramento Lawmakers Seek to Redo the Recall Process, Begin Hearings In hopes of avoiding another $276 million recall waste, the state assembly starts hearings to revise a recall process that’s been on the books for 110 years.
SF Politics Good News for Gavin? Dems Crushing GOP 2-to-1 in Returning Mail-In Ballots A couple new polls show Newsom back up by double-digits in the Sept. 14 recall election, but more importantly, Democrats have an overwhelming advantage among the 23% of Californians who’ve already voted by mail.
SF Politics Brace Yourselves For a Rogues' Gallery of Candidates If Newsom Recall Election Happens Anyone who was around California in 2003 will remember the circus sideshow that the whole nation watched when Governor Gray Davis was put up for a recall vote, with 135 candidates qualifying for the ballot including former child star Gary Coleman (RIP) and porn star Mary Carey.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Listeria Worries Prompt Massive Recall Of Trader Joe's, Safeway Vegetables If you picked up some vegetables in the past few weeks or so, then you should double check to see if your purchases ended up in this massive recall. Mann Packing in Salinas
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Might Have Served Hepatitis-Tainted Fish Fish that tested positive for a viral liver disease has spurred a recall in three states — and officials say that five Bay Area restaurants might have already served the troubled tuna. The Associated
SF News Recall Ed Lee Petitions Approved, Hit The Streets Today HOT OFF THE PRESSES! The Official Petition to #RecallEdLee is ready for 60,000 signatures so we can #SweepEdLee #EvictEdLee #SaveSF #EDXIT pic.twitter.com/BHA8rZ619f— RecallEdLee2016 (@RecallEdLee2016) October 8, 2016 A nearly
SF News Look Out: These Bad Baby Wipes Might Make You Sick Do you have a baby you wipe? Do you tote wipes for another purpose (I'm not asking!)? Are you dating Terrence "Baby Wipes" Howard? Then pay attention: a bacteria outbreak in several nationally-distributed
