More from City HallGavin Newsom has obviously won re-election, although we don't know his total yet. But the other winners tonight are Aaron Peskin and Chris Daly.
Peskin's Prop. A is an almost certain winner -- it's ahead 51-49 in the absentees and that's the most conservative of the votes, so it will win handily. His Prop K, the measure limit new billboards, is winning, too, overwhelmingly (60-40).
What this means is that Peskin defeated a rather vicious campaign by Don Fisher to smear him and the Board of Supervisors; in fact, the attacks on the Board didn't seem to work. And the measure Newsom and his allies really wanted to stop -- Daly's Question Time -- is behind by only two points, and will more than likely win. Again, the Newsom campaign was an attack on the supervisors, particularly Daly -- and it doesn't appear to have worked.
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Thanks, Tim. Hopefully all that late money spent against E won't sour the election day voters. A special thanks to Sarah Phelan for her coverage of the dirty money in this election.
However, don't discount the political impact of downtown's money. Even when we win the contested elections, we take our blows at a cost...
Posted by Chris Daly | November 7, 2007 07:30 AM