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...
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....
Bay Guardian endorsement interview: Angela Alioto
As part of our endorsement process, we are posting our interviews with the candidates. The interviews are undedited.
Alioto talked to us about the tech boom, her position on Tasers, her history in the city, and how she would address homelessness.
Among other things, she argued that Tasers will prevent police shootings -- although that's not how they are likely to...
Our 2019 CLEAN SLATE guide to take to the polls
Here's our simple list of 2019 Nov. 5 election endorsements to help you fill out your ballot. Read why we're endorsing these issues and measures here.
Mayor: No endorsement
Supervisor, District Five: Dean Preston
City Attorney: Dennis Herrera
District Attorney: Chesa Boudin
Public Defender: Monohar Raju
Sheriff: No endorsement
Treasurer: Jose Cisneros
Board of Education: No endorsement
Community College Board: Ivy Lee
Proposition A: Yes
Proposition B: Yes
Proposition C: No,...
Our Clean Slate Voters’ Guide for the November 2018 election
Print this guide out here. Read our endorsements here.
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:...
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We’ve lived through a lot of bad mayors. Nine years of Dianne Feinstein, who created a downtown-development gold rush that began the gentrification crisis we see...
ENDORSEMENTS 2018
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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...
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...
ENDORSEMENTS 2019
It’s an old political saw, but it’s worth discussing: Are you better off today in San Francisco that you were five years ago? If you’re a tenant, or a person making a middle-class income or less, or if you ride Muni, or if you care about homelessness and displacement, the answer is almost certainly worse.
The agenda that the late...
East Bay Endorsements
We don’t have the bandwidth to do for our friends across the Bay the detailed work we did in San Francisco, so we aren’t going to weigh in on every single race and every single ballot measure. That wouldn’t be fair to anyone.
But we want to make a few key endorsements – and they reflect our longstanding efforts to...