Judging by past elections, third-party groups, who can spend and raise unlimited sums of money will flood the races with most of their spending a week before Nov. 8 Election Day. Read More
Five mayoral candidates will present their plans to improve Muni service at a meeting tonight for public transit riders.The San Francisco Transit Riders Union, a public transportation advocacy organization, will host candidates Phil Ting, David Chiu, John Avalos, Tony Hall and Terry Baum at the Park Branch Library. Each candidate will be asked to present their transit policies at the meeting, which is slated to take place at 6 p.m. at the library on 1833 Page St. Read More
Could you raise $50,000 in eleven days? Could you do it if you couldn’t accept more than $500 from one person?Maybe you or I couldn’t do it, but Mayor Ed Lee sure can.Lee filed paperwork Wednesday required of candidates once they raise or spend $50,000. That’s a week and a half after Lee made his announcement that he is entering the race. Read More
Violent crime in The City continued to decline in the first half of the year, dropping 6 percent, Mayor Ed Lee and police Chief Greg Suhr announced Wednesday.Lee cited the “historic lows” at a news conference with Suhr at police headquarters. In addition to the 6 percent drop from 2010, violent crime is down 17 percent since 2008, they said. Read More
Three candidates for San Francisco mayor sat down with The Examiner on Thursday to explain why they think they’d be the right choice to lead The City. Read More
Mayoral candidate and venture capitalist Joanna Rees wants a look at The City’s complex departmental budget makeup, but hasn’t had any luck yet.In an editorial board interview with The Examiner on Thursday, Rees said she first requested the budgets from departments verbally, then with letters, and now she has filed Sunshine Act requests to compel The City to release the information. Read More
Back in 1989, then-Mayor Art Agnos hired someone to run the fledgling whistleblower program, a hire that proved to have true staying power. That person would later end up heading the Human Rights Commission, the Department of Public Works, become city administrator and then be appointed mayor of the city of San Francisco.If you haven’t been following city politics for the last seven months, you might not know that the very person Agnos hired was current Mayor Ed Lee. Read More
For months, the people behind “Run, Ed, Run” pushed for Mayor Ed Lee to run in November — but they were nowhere to be found Monday night as San Francisco’s interim leader was roundly booed, jeered and heckled at his first mayoral debate. Read More
