San Francisco mayoral elections

[smoltchanov]

Sadly, I think Breed has to be considered the slight favorite now with the trend from the late ballots and the amount of votes left to count.

Also, it's not a mayoral election, but Mandelman easily beat Sheehy (moderate appointed by Lee) for the Supervisor position in District 8. Mandelman will be seated now, but he'll have to run again against Sheehy in November. If my count is right this should give the left faction on the Board a majority? The moderate faction won a majority in the 2016 elections (6-5) iirc but I don't know if there have been further developments since then.

And on the local referendum front, Referendum F (City-Funded Legal Representation for Residential Tenants in Eviction Lawsuits) passed!

When i hear about "moderate faction" in Sf council - i smile broadly. In almost any other city these "moderates" would be ultraliberals....)))))

[smoltchanov]

Sadly, I think Breed has to be considered the slight favorite now with the trend from the late ballots and the amount of votes left to count.

Also, it's not a mayoral election, but Mandelman easily beat Sheehy (moderate appointed by Lee) for the Supervisor position in District 8. Mandelman will be seated now, but he'll have to run again against Sheehy in November. If my count is right this should give the left faction on the Board a majority? The moderate faction won a majority in the 2016 elections (6-5) iirc but I don't know if there have been further developments since then.

And on the local referendum front, Referendum F (City-Funded Legal Representation for Residential Tenants in Eviction Lawsuits) passed!

When i hear about "moderate faction" in Sf council - i smile broadly. In almost any other city these "moderates" would be ultraliberals....)))))

But the irony is that "ultraliberal" San Francisco probably has a lot more inequality than a "conservative" Peoria or Omaha.

"Ultraliberal" SF voted for Hillary in the primary, and gave us Newsom, Harris, Feinstein, and Pelosi. SF's liberalism is MASSIVELY overrated.

Newsom, Harris, Feinstein and Pelosi are absolutely liberal in MY world....)))) Even Feinstein, and Harris and Pelosi -  very liberal))))

[smoltchanov]

Sadly, I think Breed has to be considered the slight favorite now with the trend from the late ballots and the amount of votes left to count.

Also, it's not a mayoral election, but Mandelman easily beat Sheehy (moderate appointed by Lee) for the Supervisor position in District 8. Mandelman will be seated now, but he'll have to run again against Sheehy in November. If my count is right this should give the left faction on the Board a majority? The moderate faction won a majority in the 2016 elections (6-5) iirc but I don't know if there have been further developments since then.

And on the local referendum front, Referendum F (City-Funded Legal Representation for Residential Tenants in Eviction Lawsuits) passed!

When i hear about "moderate faction" in Sf council - i smile broadly. In almost any other city these "moderates" would be ultraliberals....)))))

But the irony is that "ultraliberal" San Francisco probably has a lot more inequality than a "conservative" Peoria or Omaha.

"Ultraliberal" SF voted for Hillary in the primary, and gave us Newsom, Harris, Feinstein, and Pelosi. SF's liberalism is MASSIVELY overrated.

Newsom, Harris, Feinstein and Pelosi are absolutely liberal in MY world....)))) Even Feinstein, and Harris and Pelosi -  very liberal))))

Dianne Feinstein is more liberal than Vladimir Putin, I'll give her that. But calling her very liberal is some crazy sh**t.

I didn't call HER "very liberal". These words were about Harris and Pelosi. But "pragmatic liberal" - sure.