With 100 percent (sort of) counted ...
With 100 percent of the vote in -- sort of -- the election is shaping up this way: Barring a real surprise, Ed Lee will win a four-year term. Ross Mirkarimi is positioned 10 points ahead of Chris...
View ArticleA surprise: C and D are much closer
I really thought the Prop. C vs. prop D race was over, but in the final tally, it's really close -- Prop. C is ahead by just 5,000 votes. That's unlikely to change given the trends all night -- but it...
View ArticleAdachi, smiles, frets about Prop C
By Shawn Gaynor A montage of campaign pictures projected on the wall of the packed Harbor Court Hotel ballroom (totally fancy, good desert) show a man who wears a smile with a natural, genuine ease....
View ArticleMirkarimi likes where it's going
At the Carnelian by the Bay behind the Ferry Building, District 5 supervisor Ross Mirkarimi seemed like a guy who didn't want to speak too soon. <!--break--> But the cheers and hugs from...
View ArticleOnek supporters rally 'round
A small crowd of District Attorney Candidate David Onek’s most passionate supporters gravitated to the Pilsner Inn to celebrate the end of an energized campaign. “The last four days of an election are...
View ArticleAvalos campaign revives the progressive movement
As I walked into the John Avalos campaign party in Roccapulco around 11 pm, Sup. David Campos told me, “It’s the best party in town!” And he was right. The speeches were just getting underway on the...
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Maximum Consumption: the Turntable Kitchen interview
The salt-and-Motown digging couple behind Turntable Kitchen. I'd venture a guess that no one in this town knows the frosting tipped appeal of hand-mixing music and food more than the couple behind...
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Ed Lee, Leland Yee and the progressive vote
A couple of months ago, I got into an argument with Enrique Pearce, who runs Left Coast Communications, the firm that set up Run Ed Run and ran one of the independent expenditure committes for Ed Lee....
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Ed Lee's absentee coup
The most remarkable number in the election results was clear before a single election-day ballot was counted. The absentee ballots were released around 8:30 p.m., and they were stunning: Ed Lee has...
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Analyzing the numbers
The Avalos campaign pulled off a near miracle I keep looking at the election numbers, trying to make sense of it all, and the more I look and count and add, the more a couple of things become clear:...
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Period Piece: Duels to death on the shores of Lake Merced
Leaving aside the wanton killing, there was something charming about olden-style justice. Back in the day, a political figure could draft a nasty note that ended with “your obedient servant,” pass it...
View ArticleGuardian editorial: End the death penalty in 2012
It's time to end the death penalty in California. And November, 2012, may be the best chance. A coalition led by the ACLU is launching a campaign for a ballot initiative to end executions in this...
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Live Shots: The Guardian's 45th Anniversary Happy Hour
On Thursday November 3rd the Guardian family descended upon Buck Tavern to toast 45 years of "Printing the News and Raising Hell." The cadre included current and former staffers, as well as SF...
View Article35,000 votes still out
The Department of Elections says there are about 34,500 ballots still to be counted -- 27,000 election-day absentees and 7,500 provisionals. That would be about one sixth of the total votes. Not...
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The Performant: Revenge of the nerds
Gaiman and Palmer, the Bay Area Science Festival, and a live game of Frogger Nerd might still be a four-letter word in high school locker rooms (assuming these are still high school locker rooms to be...
View ArticleDick Meister: Labor and the occupiers: a natural fit
LABOR & THE OCCUPIERS: A NATURAL FIT By Dick Meister Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom and a former city editor of the Oakland Tribune, has covered labor...
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Lee, Mirkarimi, and Gascon win first ranked choice tally
Elections Chief John Arntz takes questions from reporters. Steven T. Jones San Francisco’s first run of ranked choice voting tallies for yesterday's election shows Ed Lee winning the mayor’s race...
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Hot sexy events: November 10-15
Not sexy, but he did just fuck us. The mayoral elections are over. San Francisco politicos have long since rolled out of rumpled election night beds, kissed their partners for the first time in...
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Live Shots: Shonen Knife at Bottom of the Hill
Japanese pop and the Ramones; it's a combination you might not hear anywhere else besides a Shonen Knife show (or on the band's tribute album Osaka Ramones). On Friday night at Bottom of the Hill, the...
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Mirkarimi victory seems assured
Ross Mirkarimi was reluctant to declare victory at City Hall yesterday, but today his win seemed assured. Steven T. Jones The San Francisco Elections Department counted more than 25,000 ballots today...
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