As we predicted, the local polls were not trustworthy: Saikat Chakrabarti spent more than $8 million on his Congressional campaign and so far has 16,000 votes. Sup. Connie Chan has 28 percent of the vote, and state Sen. Scott Wiener has 41 percent.
That means we are going to see an epic November race between a strong progressive who has the support of outgoing Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and a corporate Democrat who has the tech and real-estate industry behind him.
The Department of Elections still has tens of thousands more ballots to count, but the results of most of the races are clear enough that we can call them.
Mostly, the big money won: Incumbents Stephen Sherrill and Alan Wong held onto their supervisor seats after Mayor Daniel Lurie’s allies poured hundreds of thousands into those races. Prop. D lost, again facing a huge amount of Big Tech money.
So Lurie retains his control over the Board of Supes, and won’t have the Prop. D money to help balance the budget. It’s going to ge a huge battle between the mayor and labor over the next month.
It appears that the next governor of California will be Xavier Becerra, although with so many late votes, Tom Steyer still could squeak into second place.
We will keep you updated as more votes come in.
