SF Politics GOP Senate Candidate Steve Garvey Has His Property Taxes Paid by Some Mysterious Outfit Called ‘Sisters in Christ’ There’s some funny business in Steve Garvey’s taxes, aside from the fact that he owes several hundred thousand, as his property taxes are being paid by some nebulous group with the name “Sisters in Christ.”
SF Politics Adam Schiff and Katie Porter Make Their Final Campaign Stumps Here in SF Before Tuesday’s Vote Rep. Katie Porter was at Manny’s barnstorming for votes Sunday, while Rep. Adam Schiff was across town at Dogpatch’s the Pearl, as their primary race for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat looms Tuesday.
SF Politics New Crypto Bro PAC Spending Millions on Ads to Defeat Katie Porter in California Senate Race Whatever remaining cryptocurrency moguls who are not looking at prison time have coalesced around a common enemy in Senate candidate Katie Porter, as money from Ron Conway and Andreessen Horowitz just bought $2 million worth of attack ads against her.
SF Politics Debate for Feinstein’s Senate Seat: Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee Spar, Steve Garvey Wishy-Washes Monday night saw the first debate for Dianne Feinstein’s former Senate seat, where Katie Porter and Adam Schiff took center stage, while Barbara Lee fought to stay in the game, and Republican Steve Garvey stumbled in his attempts to not seem like he was a Republican.
SF Politics New Senator Laphonza Butler Defends Her Work for Uber, Plus the Whole Living In Maryland Thing It was seen as perhaps a stumble out of the gate when newly appointed California senator Laphonza Butler was revealed to have been living in Maryland the last two years, so she did a little clean-up on that in her first-day-on-the-job interview with the Chronicle.
SF Politics Newsom Appoints Laphonza Butler, President of Emily's List, to Fill Feintstein's Senate Seat Laphonza Butler was set to be sworn in Monday as only the third Black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, and the second openly lesbian senator, after Governor Gavin Newsom moved swiftly to make his choice to fill Dianne Feinstein's seat.
SF Politics An 'RGB-Level Disaster'? Or Will Republicans Make Nice and Let Democrats Fill Feinstein's Seat on the Judiciary Committee? While the rumblings shall grow louder in the coming days about Governor Gavin Newsom's potential pick to appoint to Dianne Feinstein's now vacant seat in the Senate, one thing seems certain: Republicans are going to use this vacancy to their advantage however they can.
SF Politics Will Newsom Appoint Barbara Lee to the Senate? Or Send In Shirley Weber as 'Interim'? Governor Gavin Newsom is now faced with the awkward moment he has not wanted to face, with a second senate seat to fill by appointment, and a two-year-old pledge he may have come to regret.
SF Politics Republicans Rebuff Dianne Feinstein's Attempt to Get Temporary Replacement on Judiciary In a move that is bound to raise the pressure on Dianne Feinstein to do the proverbial thing or get off the pot, Senate Republicans on Monday scoffed at the idea that they would allow a temporary Democratic replacement to assume Dianne Feinstein's seat on a key committee.
SF Politics Kamala's Senate Replacement Alex Padilla Files Papers to Run Again, Will Likely Sleepwalk to Victory Appointed last year to fill Kamala Harris's Senate seat, new California Senator Alex Padilla will have to run twice in 2022 to keep the seat, yet both races will likely be among the least compelling in the country.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Faces Fresh Round of ‘Rumors of Her Cognitive Decline’ The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize.
SF News Dianne Feinstein Unfazed By Opposition To Her Fifth-Term Campaign Following an announcement earlier this month that she would indeed seek a fifth term in the US Senate, former SF Mayor Dianne Feinstein appears to be undaunted by the challengers that may rise
SF News Dianne Feinstein To Hold First SF Town Hall Of Trump Presidency Monday Congressional leaders across the country are taking a quick break from all the fun of our nation's capital, returning to face their constituents during a recess through April 23. Here, that means a
SF News Facebook Denies Allegations About Cherrypicking News As Senate Opens Inquiry The scandalous tale about Facebook's news "curators" and allegations that the Trending Topics section took on some anti-conservative bias at the hands of those curators has blown up Tuesday with CEO Mark Zuckerberg