On October 8, the League of Women Voters hosted a mayoral candidate forum that included all candidates in anticipation of the November 3 election.
If you were to stop a San Franciscan on the street right now and ask who they’ll be voting for in the November 3 election for mayor, they might respond with “we’re electing a new mayor in November?”
It doesn’t help that this is the first time in 45 years that there has only been one candidate forum/debate when a mayor is being elected.
To help raise awareness of the mayoral race, screenings of the forum are being held across the city including one next Tuesday at the Richmond District branch library at 6:30pm (351 9th Avenue, doors open at 6).
To be clear, this is not a live event, but rather a screening of the October 8 forum which runs about 2 hours (you can also watch below).
The screening is hosted by Richmond District resident Amy, who told us “my main motivation is to increase awareness and get people excited about voting. But in the interest of full disclosure the event is in conjunction with the 1-2-3 Replace Ed Lee campaign.”
The screening is free to attend. If you can’t make it, watch the recording below of the October 8 forum. And remember to get out and vote on November 3!
Sarah B.
There will be a similar screening event in at the North Beach Branch of the San Francisco Public Library, 850 Columbus, on Monday, Oct. 26. https://www.facebook.com/events/197752670556761/
Sorry, I meant to say on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6:00 at the North Beach Public Library, 850 Columbus.
good riddance ed
All the events between now and Nov. 3 can be found at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=123beatedlee%40gmail.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles
I’m eager to vote Ed out, yet even I did not realize that the vote was this year – there’s been *no* publicity on this. (Which to be clear, reflects badly on Ed’s opponents, and also means its incredibly likely that Ed will be re-elected by a wide margin… which is also not helped by the fact that the anti-Ed vote looks like it will be split among a half-dozen other candidates. Sigh.)
Never trust a candidate named “Broke-Ass Stuart”…if he’s broke-ass all by himself…imagine what he will do to the city…
IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO EDUCATE YOURSELVES ON YOUR OPTIONS!!!
For the first time in San Francisco history, three progressive candidates have formed a coalition to unseat incumbent Ed Lee using ranked voting.
The three candidates are:
Amy Farah Weiss: http://www.thinktwicevoteweiss.com/
Francisco Herrera: http://www.peoplescampaign.net/
And Stuart Schuffmann (otherwise known as Broke Ass Stuart):
https://brokeassmayor.nationbuilder.com/
The three candidates are running a serious campaign. Their facebook page has OVER 10,000 MEMBERS:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1040609395974042/
The three candidates came out strong at the Mayoral Forum hosted by the SF League of Women Voters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSTlSCccEu0
More about the candidates:
Amy Farah Weiss
-from San Jose, did 3 independent studies for her Master’s degree at SF State
-fought the illegal greenlighting of a Chase Bank to displace 3 locally owned, community heritage businesses
-created Neighbors Developing Divisadero afterwards, which rejuvenated a community garden on a limited budget and fought to preserve Marcus Books (the oldest African American bookstore in the US)
-platform points: making Housing Bond from Prop A go twice as far by developing in-law units and backyard tiny homes that cost half as much to build and generate a source of income for the homeowner that repays the loan of the bond; develop sustainable eco-villages of tiny homes on already indexed plots of underutilized public lands as interim housing for the homeless and ask the NFL to donate $5 million dollars in advance of the Super Bowl Party to do it; work with rec & parks to design a soil stewardship program to reduce the effects of climate change; make sure that the Planning Commission and other departments are following the legal structures for development and conditional use as set forth by public policy and voter approval
Francisco Herrera
-from border town Calexico, CA and has lived in SF, CA for 30 years
-respected educator and activist with endorsements from the SEIU 1021 and the union that represents the teachers of City College
-has an 8-point plan for how he would focus his attention and budget guidance as mayor (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206310174852253&set=a.1463296821404.2063055.1202979119&type=3&theater)
Stuart Schuffman
-from SoCal, went to UC Santa Cruz (known for its leftist politics)
-small business owner in the Mission, travel writer, comedian
-blog focuses on living big on a small budget
-platform points: Introduce a Public Advocate to protect community interests from illegal corporate and government activity; reopen closed public restrooms, open new solar powered restrooms, and create incentive programs to private businesses offering their restrooms to the public to decrease the human waste factor on city streets; increase amounts corporations pay to use public facilities like bus stops and enforce tax code.
We had a great event. Thanks to the concerned and active voters that turned up!
@SierraJeff I think you need to write a note to the local news agencies about the lack of coverage of all of the candidates running for mayor. The candidates have been sending press releases and have offered to be interviewed. Ranked-choice voting helps eliminate the splintering of votes. You can vote for three different candidates. This is the description of how ranked-choice voting works directly from the San Francisco Department of Elections:
“How do I mark the ranked-choice ballot?
The ranked-choice ballot lists the names of all the candidates in three repeating columns.
1.To mark the ranked-choice ballot, select your first-choice candidate in the first column by completing the arrow pointing to your choice.
2.To indicate a second choice, select a different candidate in the second column by completing the arrow pointing to your choice.
3.To indicate a third choice, select a different candidate in the third column by completing the arrow pointing to your choice.
How ranked-choice voting works:
•To start, every first-choice selection is counted. Any candidate who receives a majority (more than 50%) of the first-choice selections is declared the winner.
•If no candidate receives more than 50% of the first-choice selections, the candidate who received the fewest number of first-choice selections is eliminated.
•Voters who selected the eliminated candidate as their first choice will have their vote transferred to their second choice.
•The votes are then recounted. If any remaining candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, he or she is declared the winner.
•If no remaining candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, the process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes to the next ranked candidate is repeated until one candidate has a winning majority.”