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Good afternoon! Election news is coming in fast and furious.
Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell has agreed to an ethics fine of $108,000, the largest in S.F. history, for commingling funds between his mayoral and Prop D committees.ย Opponents have criticizedย Farrell for making an end-run around the cityโs campaign finance limits.
As Mission Local reported last month, three former mayors called for a criminal investigation of Farrell’s campaign for mixing funds. Farrell, at the time, called their charges a “weak-sauce ethics letter,” and said, “What a joke.“
And while we’re looking at history, remember when London Breed fumed that moving SF mayoral elections to a presidential election year was a “power grab” by the city’s far left? Well, turns out that the new election schedule is mostly helping candidates who have access to a lot of money. Joe Eskenazi does the math.
DA Brooke Jenkins campaigned for the recall of her predecessor Chesa Boudin saying that he’d failed victims of crime. But more than half the staff in the Victim Services Division have quit under Jenkins, and critics charge mismanagement and less support to crime victims from her office.
Still more: a look at the candidates who are trying (in very different ways) to save BART from going belly-up, and a gift to the pro-car No on K from Neighbors for a Better San Francisco. But it’s not all election news: look at this beautiful photo essay from Dia de los Muertos in the Mission.
More soon,
Sara
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Events
Today: Make your voting plan! If you haven’t already sent in your ballot, you can drop it at City Hall today or tomorrow from 7AM-8PM. You can also drop it today or tomorrow in any of the city’s 37 official ballot drop boxes, or leave it at a polling place tomorrow, Election Day, until 8PM. Find the locations of official ballot drop boxes here and locations and hours of polling places here.
Tomorrow: Vote.
Wednesday: Post-Election Brunch at Manny’s, 12 noon-2PM, November 6.