Sometimes I will write about local politics. If you don’t want to read these kinds of things, just skip past it. There will be plenty of Muni related posts soon enough, as well as pictures of dogs….
For those of you in San Francisco, there is an election for State Senator this year. This will be the first election with the “new” Senate District, one which encompasses the entire City of San Francisco, as well as portions of North San Mateo County. Previous Senate districts usually cut SF into 2 districts, one which included the city’s Westside and points south of SF, another with the City’s eastern portion, and parts of Marin County.
For some reason, the only two candidates that are likely to make it to the fall election under California’s “Top Two” system (whereby the two top vote getters, regardless of party, advance to the fall election) are two members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, Scott Wiener and Jane Kim.
What’s that? You want to throw your vote to some zany non Democrat candidate in the fall election? You’re out of luck, friend. It’s “Democrats” or nothing here!
I’m not so sure that the Board of Supervisors is the place I want to go looking for someone to represent San Francisco up in the state capital. It’s not generally a group known for brilliance, and whether you’re a supporter of the leftier side of politics or the “developer/dotcom/tech/edlee” side of politics, I think we can all agree this isn’t exactly a great place to recruit from.
And yet, in recent years when there’s been vacancies for Higher Office, we have “Supervisors” running for those spots. (Just recently, two Harvard grads, David Chiu and David Campos, ran for the Assembly, and Chiu won.)
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