Dunno if there's any other big races on local ballots (CA state ballot measures are pretty boring) but a few interesting things are happening in SF:
- the mayoral election, obviously - the 3 candidates most likely to win are a Korean-American woman, a gay man, and a black woman (news coverage will tell you that there's a fourth prominent candidate, but I refuse to believe
the person who tweeted this can win here) - all of them would represent firsts among SF mayors*, yet it's been a very issue-focused campaign, Jane Kim prob the most progressive and London Breed prob the most technocratic. Also of note is the use of ranked choice voting in this election, go SF!
- prop E: banning sale of flavored tobacco in the city, tobacco industry spending a ton of $$ against this, tons of billboards and radio ads and phone calls/text messages about it
- prop F: to provide lawyers for evicted tenants, a pet project of DSA types around here
- prop H: sneaky attempt by SF police officers to give themselves more latitude to use tasers against people
Last edited by goofyballer; 06-05-2018 at 05:47 PM.
Reason: *realized this needs a disclaimer - Breed was briefly acting mayor after Ed Lee's death