EDITORIAL: Vote for Kim and Leno (or Leno and Kim) to save San Francisco
The early indications are that turnout in the June 5 election will be low. According to Joe Eskenazi, who has a daily text-message service, as of May 27, 43,000 ballots have been returned; at that point in June 2016, 63,500 ballots had been turned in.
So every single vote is going to matter. You can vote this weekend at City...
Endorsements: Kim and Leno for mayor. Mandelman for supervisor. Eastin for governor. Yes on F, No on H
>>> DOWNLOAD OUR CLEAN SLATE VOTER GUIDE TO TAKE TO THE POLLS HERE!
It’s odd, considering the critical importance to the future of the city, that the news media haven’t been that fixated on the mayor’s race. Debates and forums take place several times a week. Key endorsements happen regularly. The city—this deeply wounded city, under attack from speculators and...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
ENDORSEMENTS: Kim for state Senate, Sanders for President, Yes on C …
PLEASE NOTE: THESE ENDORSEMENTS WERE FOR THE JUNE 2016 PRIMARIES -- FOR OUR NOVEMBER ENDORSEMENTS, CLICK HERE.
The Democratic primary season is almost over. It’s almost certain that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee (and, for the sake of the nation, we hope she will be the next president). But it’s critical that people still go to the polls...
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,...
Guardian endorsements: A quick guide
For a full explanation of Guardian endorsements, see here. For an easily printable, PDF version of this guide, click here.
President: Bernie Sanders
US Senate: Kamala Harris
Congress, D 12: Nancy Pelosi
State Senate, D 11: Jane Kim
Superior Court Judge: Victor Hwang
State Assembly, District 17: No endorsement
State Assembly, District 19: Phil Ting
Prop. 50: Yes
Prop. AA: No
Prop. A: Yes
Prop. B: No
Prop C: Yes, yes, yes
Prop....