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...
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: ADEM Districts 17 and 19
The people who set policy for the California Democratic Party are elected as delegates. Not all of them – the Democrats who hold public office get to be delegates automatically, which means it’s harder to move the party in a progressive direction. But every two years, in a genuine nod to democracy (which sometimes seems like a...
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...
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.
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...
Take this to the polls! Our Clean Slate easy guide for SF’s March 2024 election
Barbara Lee for Senate, Working Families Slate for DCCC, YES on Prop A and D, NO on Props C, E, and F.
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.
Bay Guardian endorsements for the Democratic County Central Committee
Here are the Bay Guardian endorsements for Democratic County Central Committee, 2016.
The race for Democratic County Central Committee, often a second thought on the June ballot, is now a big deal, a proxy for the defining struggle to save what’s left of San Francisco from corporate power and real-estate greed.
The DCCC sets policy for the local party. A lot...
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...