Sponsored link
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Sponsored link

News + PoliticsElectionsLook who's funding the local Democratic Party

Look who’s funding the local Democratic Party

The right-wing tech barons and plutocrats are now the party's biggest donor base.

-

The San Francisco Democratic Party held its annual gala tonight at the Palace Hotel. These posh events raise funds for the party, which is fine—but this year, the major sponsors, who gave more than $25,000, read like a list of the most conservative, almost Republican, big tech donors in the city:

Chris Larsen and Ron Conway, two plutocrats who are trying to buy control of San Francisco politics. Jeremy Stoppelman, the founder of Yelp and a major Yimby. Garry Tan, who not long ago called for the death of progressives on the Board of Supes.

This is who the San Francisco Democratic Party is celebrating?

It’s a very different party now that the right wing of the party has taken over. And that money will go to promoting right-wing candidates in November.

48 Hills welcomes comments in the form of letters to the editor, which you can submit here. We also invite you to join the conversation on our FacebookTwitter, and Instagram

Tim Redmond
Tim Redmond
Tim Redmond has been a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder of 48hills.
Sponsored link
Sponsored link

Featured

Under the Stars: Juju Rogers drops some psyche-funk ‘Voodoo’

Plus: Very catchy Otoliths, Bel Cobain's Brownswood reign, Georgie Sweet swears again. And what's up with the Hall of Fame?

Drama Masks: ‘Hamnet’ is gorgeous, but how was Shakespeare’s sausage made?

Plus: 'Bloodlines' promises resistance, and SF Ballet's techno AI blockbuster 'Mere Mortals' returns, trailing cultural import.

Save 20% on SF International Arts Festival tickets!

Here's the code to get you into the boundary-crossing blast, Wed/29-May 10, at a discount.

More by this author

Pushing back against a radical move to change SF’s housing and drug policy

Chen calls budget hearing to address the importance of 'housing first.' That's The Agenda for April 26-May 3

The brutal Lurie budget: Cuts for everyone except the cops and the very rich

Mayor's Office admits that its budget will harm vulnerable communities while pouring vast sums of money into law enforcement

Lurie wants to undermine mandate for big institutions to tell neighborhoods what they are doing

Colleges and universities would no longer file Institutional Master Plans in many parts of town
Sponsored link

You might also likeRELATED