Phil Ting received $279,668 in taxpayer-funded financing for his mayoral candidacy, but as of Wednesday he only received 806 votes. That’s $347 per vote spent by San Francisco taxpayers to subsidize his failed campaign.
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Ed Lee became The City’s first elected Chinese-American mayor Wednesday.Flanked by his wife and daughter outside his office after ranked-choice voting results were announced, Lee fought back tears as he claimed victory.
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San Francisco politics are truly frightening -- or are they? Phil Ting's people over at ResetSanFrancisco.org inject some pretty cheesy activity into this year's Halloween season with a video spoofing the horror franchise "Paranormal Activity."
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David Chiu’s carefully hoarded mayoral campaign cash is finally being splurged on ads, one of which casts the Board of Supervisors president in the role of Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager played by Brad Pitt in “Moneyball.”
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The nine publically financed candidates in the mayor’s race agreed to not spend more than $1.475 million. But if third-party groups and non-public financing candidates spend more than that cap, then it is raised. That’s what happened Wednesday thanks to spending in support of Mayor Ed Lee. The Ethics Commission raised the spending cap to $1.575 million.
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Many of Ed Lee’s opponents in the mayoral race have been quick to say he has no vision for The City’s future. But after the mayor unveiled details of his jobs plan Tuesday, his rivals were quick to claim Lee poached ideas from their own visions.
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What do Mayor Ed Lee and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have in common? They both can count Sean Parker as an early investor in their dreams. Parker, the young tech investor played by Justin Timberlake in the film about Facebook’s origins, “The Social Network,” donated $100,000 to an independent campaign committee supporting Lee for mayor, records show.
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Mayor Ed Lee has raised $748,008 in contributions of up to $500 per person in his bid to be elected mayor, according to the campaign finance form he filed with the Ethics Commission. The form declares how much money was raised as of Sept. 24.
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San Francisco’s public financing program could turn into a scaled back version, but the Board of Supervisors postponed a vote Tuesday on doing just that.Supporters of scaling back the program say San Francisco has no choice after a June Supreme Court ruling struck down Arizona's public financing program. And if The City doesn’t make the change it would be sued which would then waste hundreds of thousands of taxpayer money on a case it can’t win.
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Despite herculean efforts to reach the public through debates, door knocking, mailers and email blasts, the first thing many voters will hear about this year’s mayoral candidates will come from an ad on TV.
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