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Tagged with: Matt Gonzalez

The race for second place is heating up in the SF mayor’s race—and it’s all about Farrell

Safai backs Farrell. Some progressives back Breed—just to oppose Farrell. The RCV strategy is emerging.

The big (and sometimes pretty strange) money trying to buy Tuesday’s elections

The big money coming into the SF elections is, as usual, a tangled web, with state and local committees funded by Big Tech and...

An embarrassment of injustice: Innocent man pleads guilty to crimes he didn’t commit to get out of long prison sentence

José Inez García Zárate was found not guilty of homicide by an SF jury and has spent seven years behind bars. Now he's facing conviction in federal court.

Labor, organizing, money, and an East Bay Assembly race

The political world is full of surprises. Who will wind up winning the seat formerly occupied by Attorney General Rob Bonta?

Rob Eshelman-HÃ¥kansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47

Rob  Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was...

SF Superior Court ends Zero Bail Policy, threatening public health

The San Francisco Superior Court has chosen not to continue the Zero Bail Policy that has reduced county jail populations across the state. That, a...

Public toilets—and public corruption

The deepening public works scandal, which now involves political connected permit expediter Walter Wong, appears to have links to a big corporation that has...

Some perspective on the raid on a reporter’s house

I’m appalled to see cops raid the homes and offices of reporters and looking for confidential information.Putting a journalist in handcuffs for six hours...

Mayor makes smart move with public defender appointment

The entire Office of the Public Defender was celebrating today with the news that Mayor London Breed has named Manohar Raju to replace the...

Breed may not be opposed in November—but her policies will be

Things can change quickly in San Francisco politics, but for the moment, it appears that Mayor London Breed will not have a serious challenger...