This week’s stories
Union behind California billionaire tax hit by strike from own campaign staff, days before vote
"You would expect unions to do better on labor negotiations with their own staff. "
Speaker emerita, speaking: Nancy Pelosiโs final push to elect Connie Chan to Congress
"Nobody can work the phones quite like Nancy."
Real-estate money floods fight against San Francisco โsocial housingโ measure
โItโs essentially spending $100,000 to potentially get millions in tax cuts in the future.โ
Prop. D would make it harder to put measures on the ballot. But harder for whom, exactly?
"There wonโt be any more grassroots ballot initiatives โ they canโt afford it."
See how they run: Thereโs a high chance J.R. Eppler is coming to a doorstep near you
"Itโs the work that I want to do. And Iโll do it in elected office, or Iโll do it as a volunteer. But I think I'd be a lot more effective in elected office."
As election looms, the race for District 10 heats up, and gets complicated
In a chronically underfunded district, can a billionaireโs massive political donation backfire? Thatโs the $540,000 question.
Scott Wiener condemns the Israeli government โ and genocide. Pro-Palestine advocates are unmoved.
โHe somehow assumes that weโre not good Jews or reliable Jews just because we disagree with him."
Wiener vs. Chan: Two very different urbanist visions in San Franciscoโs congressional race
In the cityโs congressional contest, San Francisco replays its forever fight
Election Extra! Saikat Chakrabarti files illegal-coordination complaint about Scott Wiener PAC
Saikat Chakrabartiโs FEC complaint alleges that Scott Wienerโs campaign coordinated improperly with a PAC.
Election Extra! Gary Locke, first Chinese-American governor and former U.S.-China ambassador, backing Connie Chan
Locke is a big draw in cityโs Chinese community. Itโs four days till polls open.
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