BigMoneySF: Meet the 800-pound gorilla of SF politics

Good afternoon!

We’ve been digging into the BigMoneySF network, and today Joe Rivano Barros has a great new piece on Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, and how it became the 800-pound gorilla of SF politics.

Mayor London Breed is in trouble: 80% of Asian voters—who make up nearly a third of the elecorate—rate her unfavorably in polls. In today’s installment of See How They Run, we follow Breed to Chinatown.

In other news, Capp Street, barricaded from 18th to 22nd to deter sex work, has been transformed into an extended parking lot, replete with planters and a pop-up carwash. See what neighbors, the Fire Department, cops, and drivers have to say about it.

More soon,

Sara

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