SF Politics Campos Won’t Run Against Haney Again in June, Even Though His Name Will Be On the Ballot The AD-17 state Assembly seat situation seems resolved (for now), because after Matt Haney’s landslide victory Tuesday, his opponent David Campos says he won’t run in the June primary or November general elections for the seat.
SF Politics Matt Haney Claims Victory In Assembly Race, Giving Mayor Breed a Board Seat Appointment SF's District 6 will be getting a new appointed supervisor and the city is getting a new face in the Assembly after Tuesday's runoff election — it's just that we'll have to vote on this seat twice more this year.
SF Politics It's Election Day #2 of 4 For the SF Assembly Seat Sought By David Campos and Matt Haney Today's the day that San Francisco voters decide who will take David Chiu's vacant Assembly seat for District 17 in the state legislature — at least who will occupy it for the next eight months.
SF Politics New Mailers From Pro-Haney PAC Attack Campos for Working for Boudin A new batch of attack-ad mailers from the California Association of Realtors — and not the Matt Haney campaign — says “We can’t trust Campos in the Assembly” because he worked on Chesa Boudin’s staff.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Endorses Matt Haney in AD-17 Race, Which Of Course, Because She Would Get to Appoint His Replacement Two weeks out from the AD-17 special election for the state Assembly, Mayor London Breed has endorsed Supervisor Matt Haney over David Campos — no surprise considering that Haney’s exit from the Board of Supervisors would award Breed the chance for a hand-picked replacement.
SF Politics Campos Draws Groans, Backlash for Saying His Campaign Is ‘Fighting and Running Like Ukrainians’ in Assembly Race A hamfisted comparison by David Campos that his campaign was “fighting and running like Ukrainians” in his state Assembly race against Matt Haney is getting eyerolls and disapproval, right as early voting kicks off.
SF Politics Haney Forces State to Change Campos’ Ballot Description, as the Two Campaigns Try to Manufacture Differences Haney just won a legal ruling to change David Campos’ ballot description from ‘civil rights attorney’ to ‘criminal justice administrator,’ as the two progressive rivals look to gin up differences between them for next month’s runoff election.
SF Politics Haney Has Slight Edge, But Assembly Seat Will Go to April Runoff Election SF Supervisor Matt Haney and former Supervisor David Campos are heading for a runoff election in April, after neither received more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday in the race for David Chiu's former Assembly seat.
SF Politics Low-Turnout, Seemingly Minor School Board and State Assembly Elections Today Have High Stakes Even CNN is covering today’s SF school board recall and state assembly special election, and while results could make national waves, a ho-hum San Francisco electorate is hardly turning out to vote thus far.
SF Politics New State Assembly District Redraws Are In, Committee Scraps 'Majority-White' AD-17 Map The final redistricting maps are in, and the assembly district David Campos and Matt Haney are running for is slightly reconfigured, but not as whitewashed as originally proposed.
SF Politics There Could be Four Elections for This Same D-17 State Assembly Seat in 2022 This February’s special election pitting Matt Haney against Davis Campos for David Chiu’s old seat could be the first of four elections for the exact same seat in just a nine-month span.
SF Politics Rejected SoMa High-Rise Suddenly the Main Issue In Haney-Campos State Assembly Race The two progressive candidates running for David Chiu’s now-vacated assembly seat have finally found an issue to disagree on, and you’re probably going to hear a lot more about one specific housing project the board of supervisors shot down in late October.
SF Politics David Chiu Likely to Be SF's Next City Attorney, Setting Up Race For His Assembly Seat The winds of San Francisco politics are going to strengthen in the coming weeks, with potential shakeups that will likely bring us a new assemblymember in Sacramento, and potentially a shift in power on the Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor David Campos Takes Job as DA's Chief of Staff The former SF supervisor who preceded Hillary Ronen in representing the Mission and Bernal Heights, David Campos, has just landed a new gig working for District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
SF News David Campos Heads To Santa Clara As Deputy County Executive Campos out! After two terms as District 9 Supervisor and a successful hand-off to his former aide Hillary Ronen who was elected to replace him in November, David Campos is looking south for
SF News Supervisors Delay 25% Affordable Mission Development Blaming 'Hateful, Divisive' Public Comment Although many community voices during a public comment period at a Board of Supervisors meeting yesterday made the case to continue forward with a massive Mission District development on South Van Ness Avenue,
SF News Airbnb Dealt Blow By Federal Judge In Their Challenge To SF Crackdown On Illegal Rentals In the midst of Tuesday's chaos, a news item slipped through pertaining to Airbnb and San Francisco's latest attempt to crack down on scofflaw hosts. A federal judge ruled against a preliminary injunction
SF News Venture Capitalists Funding Anti-Homeless Encampment Measure With so many local propositions on this November's ballot, it's perhaps understandably hard for any single one to stand out. That, of course, is where money comes in. Mission Local reports that a
SF News Family Of Luis Gongora, Homeless Man Killed By SFPD, Files Federal Suit The family of Luis Gongora, the 45-year-old homeless man shot and killed by SFPD in April of this year, followed through this past Friday on its promise to file a federal civil rights
SF News Campos Promises To Rid Mission District Of Homeless Encampments Within 4 Months Following statements last week by the Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing indicating that officials intend to remove all homeless encampments within the city once and for all, we now get confirmation that
SF News [Update] Department Of Homelessness Renews Effort To Dismantle Tent Encampments Citywide The newly created Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing is set to begin the process of removing every single homeless encampment in the city — tent by tent. CBS 5 reports that the department's
SF News SFMTA Proposes Revoking Some Mission Street Safety Improvements Following Merchant Complaints The months-long effort from a vocal contingent of merchants and Supervisor David Campos to undo the recent safety and Muni-focused Mission Street changes has borne fruit, as SFMTA officials yesterday announced that they
SF News Campos Revives Controversial 'Mission Moratorium' Proposal In Scaled-Back Form You haven't forgotten about the Mission Moratorium, have you? Officially known as Proposition I, the failed measure sought to block construction of all housing in the Mission District for two years that wasn't
SF News New BART Station Proposed For 30th And Mission District 9 Board of Supervisors candidate Joshua Arce held a press conference this morning to announce plans to build a new BART Station at 30th and Mission Street. And, distinguishing this from just
SF News Airbnb Again At The Center Of Political Play This Election Year As Supervisors Fast-Track Amendments David Campos has built much of his political career on loud calls to preserve housing stock and combat gentrification, and as he approaches the end of his final term as District 9 Supervisor,
