Category: Government 2.0
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HUGE scuttlebutt over the DCCC endorsement card and how it downplays ranked candidates. More later. …
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From Ryan Chamberlain’s latest No on K e-mail: “Enacted as temporary measures to raise revenue during the Depression, state sales taxes have yet to be repealed. ‘Rejected by most economists as medieval anachronisms,’ wrote John F. Due in 1950, these taxes were ‘drawn up hastily, with little thought to their exact aims beyond raising revenue,…
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Despite the tepid fundraising in the District 9 race, it’s anything but quiet, thanks in large part to the efforts of leftist Lucrecia Bermudez and the Frontlines crew. Her signs are everywhere, and her latest mailer is creating a stir with a slapdown of Supervisor Tom Ammiano and challengers Renee Saucedo and Miguel Bustos. The…
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Some discussion about the impact of Mayor Newsom’s endorsement on the D5 race, namely, “Does it hurt Robert Haaland?” … The Democratic Party is backing Haaland, and the mayor is going with Andrew Sullivan, but any criticism of that arrangement minimizes the positive effect of ranked choice voting. Folks who like the party line can…
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In a recent discussion with The Examiner, District 5 candidate Ross Mirkarimi slapped the Mod Squad for misappropriating a hip name: “I just don’t think they’re mod, man.” …
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It was the District 5 “Mod Squad” of three moderate candidates that helped keep Rescue Muni Chair Andrew Sullivan in the news. The ad hoc group was the brainchild of Francis Somsel, a self-proclaimed “Newsom Democrat,” and included Sullivan and preservationist Jim Siegel. … Now that he has Mayor Gavin Newsom’s endorsement, though, Sullivan is…
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The first hit piece is out in District 5, targeting the Western Addition. “Paid for by a group of common sense voters,” it says, but it’s a sure bet that all the candidates have a good idea which rival put out this openly homophobic attack on five progressives. … It’s a single sheet, hand-delivered, trashing…
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Sullivan on Newsom’s endorsement: SAN FRANCISCO – Mayor Gavin Newsom today endorsed Andrew Sullivan for District 5 supervisor. “Andrew is a proven leader with a great record of getting things done,” Mayor Newsom said. “In 1999, I worked side by side with Andrew on Proposition E, the Muni reform initiative. He stood firm for Muni…
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Mayor Newsom’s endorsement of Andrew Sullivan buys into the D5 Mod Squad’s whole “a rising tide lifts all boats” IRV theory. If each Sullivan, Francis Somsel and Jim Siegel can carve out a signaficant voting bloc of his own and convince his supporters to rank the other candidates, the moderates just might have chance. …
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Mayor Gavin Newsom’s political advisor Eric Jaye confirms: the mayor backs Rescue Muni Chair Andrew Sullivan in D5. …
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