Category: Government 2.0


  • Down to the wire: Push calls from Miguel Bustos in District 9. …

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  • Angry letter from the Hotel Council: “WHOSE MAYOR ARE YOU, MAYOR NEWSOM?” SAN FRANCISCO – The Hotel Council of San Francisco expressed its shock and disappointment today by Mayor Newsom’s words and actions over the last few days in what amounts to an attack on the hotel industry. “Our trust in Mayor Newsom has been…

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  • No argument from this corner. The election of Robert Haaland would be a historic move forward for the acceptance and political prominence of transgendered people. It’s a bold and well-run campaign. …

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  • Plenty of interesting talk about what kind of landmark the election of Robert Haaland would be. The “first transgender” claim doesn’t hold water. But if you talk to the real LGBT historians on the campaign, that’s never what they’ve claimed. Most if not all of the handful of transgendered people elected to office around the…

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  • Supervisor Aaron Peskin gets Mayor Gavin Newsom’s endorsement, as do David Heller (No. 2) and Matt Tuchow (No. 3), in a mailer scheduled to drop this weekend, according to consultant Tom Hsieh Jr. …

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  • Read the latest from district 1, 2 and 11 in Thursday’s edition of The Body Politic. And this is hilarious: Exciting news from the David Pascal campaign! We are running a close race, and with just a week to go, David is gaining serious momentum!In order to raise the last $3,000 for the campaign (for…

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  • More on the Mills Corp. poll on Piers 27-31, where it looks like all those ads in the Guardian have paid off: The poll was conducted among a sample of all registered voters in SF. Margin of error was plus or minus 4.5 percent at a 95 percent confidence level,. Sample size = 500. Oct.…

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  • The Body Politic goes daily in The Examiner through Election Day. …

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  • Ranked choice voting offers a new twist to representation of endorsements. Clearly if the new voting system stands it will create whole new rewrite of the ethics laws. It’s illegal in The City to falsify an endorsement, and it’s also a legal gray area whether candidates can spend money to endorse each other on literature.…

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  • Mayor Gavin Newsom endorsed Andrew Sullivan and Nick Waugh in District 5, and Waugh is using the endorsement big time. So big time that he’s drew complaints from other candidates angry that he’s not mentioning that the mayor endorsed him second. But mayoral political advisor Eric Jaye said, “No sweat.” Waugh is free to use…

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