Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: Elections

Democratic Party superdelegate plan fails

The future of the Democratic Party in San Francisco came down entirely to timing. As a move that would have given the mayor and his...

The Agenda, April 10-17: Superdelegates, nationally and locally

Just as the Bernie Sanders campaign is stepping up its criticism of the role party officials play in the nomination process, a proposal to...

The Agenda, April 4-10: Changing the DCCC rules (again), the first Kim-Wiener debate ….

Let us start this week with Airbnb. The company has finally decided, after many years, to help the city crack down on what everyone...

Make America great again

After two years of living in Mexico City, the United States has become somewhat of an abstraction. It’s the land where my parents and...

San Francisco, two-party town

I am increasingly coming to believe that San Francisco is now a two-party city – and oddly, we are seeing that reflected in the...

The Agenda, March 14-March 20: A mad rush to run the Democratic Party …

The filing deadline passed Friday for people who want to be on the Democratic County Central Committee, and it was wild: The real-estate interests...

The Agenda, Feb 22-29 2016: Politics, housing, homeless policy …

Why would someone raise more than $70,000 to run for a seat on the committee that oversees the local Democratic Party? Well: You have...

Does San Francisco need a Public Advocate?

With the mess that was the Super Bowl negotiations, and the FBI investigations at City Hall, and a genuine feeling that the mayor isn’t...

Peskin sends a message to Lee and Conway: Don’t you dare

The message over in Chinatown tonight was pretty clear: If Ron Conway and Mayor Lee think they can run a candidate against Aaron Peskin...

The Google bus program is in trouble

The Google bus program is in a bit of trouble. And that reflects a significant new dynamic on the Board of Supervisors. The supes were...