Endorsements for the March 3, 2020 primary
Below are our complete endorsements for the March 3, 2020 primary elections.
PRESIDENT
Bernie Sanders
Two elements come into play in the presidential primary, and we think both favor Sanders.
The first, of course, is beating Trump. We do not subscribe to the “Bernie or bust” theory, and in November, we will be endorsing and strongly supporting any Democrat who wins the nomination....
ENDORSEMENTS: Stop the GOP attack on Chesa Boudin and criminal justice reform! Vote June 7.
Vote to protect SF's progressive policies. Our endorsements for the June 7 election.
CLEAN SLATE ENDORSEMENTS, Fall 2020
Biden and Harris (of course), Yes on I and L, Yes on 15 ... complete endorsements for the state and San Francisco election.
ENDORSEMENTS 2018
CLICK HERE FOR OUR CLEAN SLATE VOTER GUIDE TO TAKE TO THE POLLS.
The two most important things on the November ballot are state Proposition 10 and San Francisco Proposition C. Both would address the housing crisis; both are desperately needed.
Prop. 10 would overturn one of the worst examples of a bad trend in California: The state Legislature likes to...
Bay Guardian endorsement interview: Jane Kim
As part of our endorsement process, we are posting interviews with all of the mayoral candidates. The interviews are unedited.
Kim talked to us about the Twitter tax break and said that at the time, it was important to encourage investment in the city, and she has no regrets. But she is concerned about the way the tech boom impacted...
VOTE Jan 8 to reform the Democratic Party!
The Democratic Party controls California – and yet, this deep-blue state still suffers under Prop 13, still allows landlords to control the political agenda (at the cost of thousands of evictions and a homeless epidemic), and is going to struggle to create an effective response to Donald Trump.
That’s because the California Democratic Party is still a corporate-run operation, dominated...
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Our Clean Slate Voters’ Guide for the November 2018 election
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BAY GUARDIAN ENDORSEMENTS
Governor: No endorsement
Lt. Governor: No endorsements
Secretary of State: Alex Padilla
Controller: Betty Yee
Treasurer: No endorsement
Attorney General: Xavier Becerra
Insurance Commissioner: Ricardo Lara
Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony Thurmond
US Senator: Kevin De Leon
Congress, District 12: Nancy Pelosi
State Assembly, District 17: No endorsement
State Assembly, District 19: Phil Ting
STATE PROPOSITIONS
Proposition 1: Yes
Proposition 2: Yes
Proposition 3: No
Proposition 4:...
Putting tenants first in the Democratic Party
“That’s Sacramento” the old timers say, as they shake their heads. For the entire time that I’ve worked on housing justice in San Francisco, housing activists have told me about about our inability, year after year, decade after decade to defeat the Ellis Act and Costa Hawkins, two laws that were written for and by the real estate industry...
Guardian endorsement interviews: Mark Leno
As part of our endorsement process, we have been interviewing the candidates for mayor. The interviews are unedited, presented in their entirety.
Mark Leno told us that he would never have supported the Twitter tax break the way it was approved, and would have demanded more community benefits. He talked about his plan for housing and homelessness.
We will be publishing...