SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Chakrabarti Going All In For Chan Saikat Chakrabarti has turned his campaign into a PAC supporting Connie Chan; the Giants could be giving its evangelical players a pass over those Pride Night hats; and why are there so many shopping carts stuck in Colma Creek marsh?
SF Politics Chakrabarti Concedes Race for SF's Congressional Seat Saikat Chakrabarti is the subject of many headlines today calling out the massive amount of personal money he spent coming in a distant third in Tuesday's primary for California's District 11 House seat. And rather than wait for more numbers to come in, he is bowing out of the race today.
SF Politics SF Election Turnout Looking Historically Low, and Why Does No One Vote on Election Day Anymore? Mid-year special elections and primaries aren't often huge draws when it comes to voter turnout, but San Francisco has a major decision to make about a Congressional seat that could be held by the same person for decades. Was that not enough of a motivator?
SF Politics [Updated] Wiener and Chan Are Headed to the November Ballot For SF's Congressional Seat We will still be getting updated vote counts over the coming days and the final tally is not yet in, but as of election night, state Senator Scott Wiener and SF Supervisor Connie Chan were in solid first and second places in the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi.
SF Politics Chakrabarti Campaign Tries to Amplify Pro-Israel PAC's Indirect Link to Connie Chan as Primary Race Tightens There appears to have been some last-minute maneuvers happening over the weekend by supporters of Saikat Chakrabarti, and Chakrabarti himself, in an effort to tie Connie Chan to a political action committee that is pro-Israel.
SF Politics Pelosi Finally Says What She Thinks About Chakrabarti and Wiener In Race to Succeed Her One week out from the primary, and one week after she finally came out and endorsed Connie Chan to succeed her, Nancy Pelosi has taken the gloves off and tells us how she really feels about the other main candidates in the race.
SF Politics ...And Pelosi Finally Comes Out and Endorses Connie Chan to Succeed Her She waited a good long minute, but House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has clearly decided her chosen candidate needs a boost in the primary, and she has now offered an official endorsement.
SF Politics Controversial Leftist Hasan Piker, Other Out-of-Towners Attend Chakrabarti Rally House candidate Saikat Chakrabarti is contending with being an outsider to the local political establishment by embracing creator-driven media and hosting other outside progressives at his rallies, including incendiary leftwing commentator Hasan Piker.
SF Politics Former Pelosi Staffer Says Chakrabarti Was Fired From AOC's Staff Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's lack of an endorsement for her former chief of staff in the San Francisco House race was already playing an outsized role in this primary season, but now we get a bit more to the story.
SF Politics Well Known Provocateur Has Been Trolling House Candidate Saikat Chakrabarti With Painted Van Some pre-primary shenanigans are afoot, and the culprit appears to be someone linked to state Senator Scott Wiener and/or his campaign, though no one has yet taken responsibility.
SF Politics AOC Declines to Endorse Former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti In Awkward Video Maybe this was a strategic decision on her part, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly declined to offer an endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti when asked by a reporter this week about his primary race in SF.
SF Politics Saikat Chakrabarti's Big Ad Push Puts Him Five Points Behind Wiener In New Poll While it's still Scott Wiener's race to lose, the relative newcomer to San Francisco politics, progressive candidate Saikat Chakrabarti, is apparently gaining traction.
SF Politics The Three Candidates Vying for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat Face Off on the Same Stage for the First Time With Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat legitimately up for grabs for the first time in nearly 40 years, the three challengers to succeed her — Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, and Saikat Chakrabarti — duked it out at a candidate forum Wednesday night.
SF Politics Pelosi Challenger Saikat Chakrabarti Officially Kicks Off His 2026 Campaign at SF’s The Chapel The 39-Year-Old Bernie bro who’s running against Nancy Pelosi next November launched his campaign in SF Wednesday night, with the curious profile of a self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist who’s also made $170 million in tech.
