Manny’s: Chronicle Live: November Ballot Explainer

Along with electing America’s next commander-in-chief on Nov. 5, San Francisco voters will choose the city’s next mayor and decide the fates of crucial city and state ballot measures and heated supervisor races.

Want some extra insight into contentious races and confusing propositions?

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to join San Francisco Chronicle senior political writer Joe Garofoli, Opinion columnist and editorial writer Emily Hoeven, and City Hall reporter Aldo Toledo live at Manny’s at 6 p.m. on Oct. 24th for a breakdown of the electoral landscape.

They’ll explain city and state propositions, discuss the candidates in close races and answer your questions about the November ballot.

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Joe Garofoli is the San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer, covering national and state politics. He has worked at the Chronicle since 2000 and in Bay Area journalism since 1992, when he left the Milwaukee Journal. He has won numerous awards and covered everything from fashion to the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings to two Olympic Games to his own vasectomy — which he discussed on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” after being told he couldn’t say the word “balls” on the air. He regularly appears on Bay Area radio and TV talking politics; was the host of “It’s All Political,” the Chronicle’s political podcast; and is available to entertain at bar mitzvahs and First Communions. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud native of Pittsburgh. Go Steelers!

Emily Hoeven is an Opinion columnist and editorial writer at the Chronicle. In 2024, she won the Sacramento Press Club’s award for best commentary, placed second in the California News Publishers Association’s contest for best editorial comment and placed third in the Best of the West contest for general interest column writing. She wrote CalMatters’ daily WhatMatters newsletter on California politics and policy from March 2020 to January 2023 and makes frequent appearances on TV, radio, podcasts and panels. Emily has reported across the West, from California to Utah to Montana, and got her start writing opinion columns for the Mercury News and the Daily Pennsylvanian. A Fremont native, Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English and French and taught English for a year in France.

Aldo Toledo is a city hall reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle covering the mayor and Board of Supervisors. He is a Venezuelan American from a family of longtime journalists. Before joining the Chronicle in 2023, he reported on Peninsula governments and breaking news for the San Jose Mercury News. He also has bylines in the Dallas Morning News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette. Raised in Texas, he studied journalism with a print news focus at the University of North Texas Mayborn School of Journalism, where he worked as News Editor for the North Texas Daily student newspaper.