SF Politics Scott Wiener Claims That Aaron Peskin Is Somehow Orchestrating the Recall Joel Engardio Campaign Strange new drama as the Recall Joel Engardio campaign enters the final days of its signature-gathering, as State Senator Scott Wiener claims that Aaron Peskin is secretly running the recall. Peskin responds that “Scott Wiener is full of sh**.”
SF News SF Supervisors Strengthen Legacy Business Protections, Hoping to Save La Mediterranee and Others After a billionaire bought up several Upper Fillmore buildings and legacy businesses there were given their walking papers, Supervisor Aaron Peskin just passed his bill adding protections to keep those businesses in place.
SF Politics New Chronicle Poll Has Daniel Lurie Edging Ahead of London Breed, Thanks to Second-Choice Votes While Mayor London Breed has a tiny lead in first-choice votes in the latest Chronicle poll, Daniel Lurie pulls ahead in second-choice votes, and Aaron Peskin has surprisingly leapfrogged Mark Farrell for third place.
SF News SF Billionaire's 17-Story Condo Proposal Appears Dead In the Water, Which Partly Explains His Feud With Aaron Peskin SF Standard owner Michael Moritz trashed Supervisor Aaron Peskin in the NY Times yesterday. Today we get some insight into why, as a Telegraph Hill condo project Moritz is backing just had its applications canceled, though mostly because of a missed deadline.
SF Politics Local Billionaire Michael Moritz Pens Another NYT Op-Ed, This Time Attacking Aaron Peskin For the second time in two years, billionaire Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz has taken to the New York Times Opinion pages to spout off about San Francisco politics, and this time his aim seems to be to ensure no one includes Aaron Peskin on their ranked-choice ballots.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Scales Back SF Rent Control Expansion That Would Move Forward If Prop 33 Passes An ambitious proposal to expand San Francisco's rent control ordinance to units built through 2024 has been scaled back, but Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that voters should know what the board's plans are in the event that Prop 33 passes next month.
SF Politics In Fifth (and Probably Final) Mayoral Debate, Sharp Barbs on Homelessness and Corruption The Coalition On Homelessness was the unexpected boogeyman at Thursday night’s SF mayoral debate, but London Breed and Mark Farrell took plenty of heat for their own alleged corruption issues.
SF News After SF Supes Banned It Locally, Rent Price Software RealPage Gets Sued by US Justice Department Less than a month after the SF Board of Supervisors banned a rental price algorithm tool from being used here, the company called RealPage that makes that tool was just sued by the US Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing.
SF Politics Breed Bounces Back Big-Time With Sizable Lead In New Mayoral Race Poll Is it the Kamala effect? Whatever it may be, Mayor London Breed is up by eight points in the five-way race for mayor, according to the latest poll from the Chronicle, but ranked-choice voting could scramble these results entirely.
Arts & Entertainment Yet More Outdoor Downtown ‘Entertainment Zone’ Parties Could Be Coming Under New Legislation From Aaron Peskin As downtown San Francisco tries to party its way out of the lack of foot traffic and the office vacancy problem, Supervisor Aaron Peskin has introduced a measure that would streamline the permitting process to create more outdoor parties.
SF Politics SF’s Moderate Candidates Duke It Out at Debate Peskin Skipped Because He Figured It Was Rigged Monday night saw another SF mayoral debate, this one largely dominated by the topics of crime and homelessness, but Aaron Peskin refused to show because he felt the organizers already had the fix in for Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie.
SF Politics SF’s Wealthiest Political Group Endorses Farrell and Lurie, Relegates Breed to Third Choice The moderate group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, whose top money man is a Republican mega-donor, has dual-endorsed Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie for SF mayor, and only says to include London Breed as your third choice so Peskin doesn’t win.
SF Politics In First SF Mayoral Debate, Crowd’s Jeers are More Memorable Than Candidates’ Performances All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
SF Politics We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17 After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.
SF Politics London Breed, Aaron Peskin Beg Off From Monday Mayoral Candidate Debate By TogetherSF, Will Host Their Own Thing A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
SF Politics Peskin Campaign Releases First Campaign Donation Numbers, Which Seem Good But Not Great Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s mayoral campaign has revealed to the press what the fundraising numbers look like in his first month in the race, but like another late entry, Mark Farrell, these numbers cannot be independently verified and we’re just taking their word for it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tadich Grill 175th Anniversary Party Draws Willie Brown, Mayor Breed, and Aaron Peskin (Who Were Very Nice to Each Other) The oldest restaurant in California, Tadich Grill, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Sunday, bringing many local luminaries, with political foes Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin burying their hatchets for one brief afternoon over cioppino and crab cakes.
SF News Peskin, Breed Both Say They Are Trying to Get Macy's to Stay In Union Square Supervisor and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin was on TV Thursday night discussing the city's efforts to cajole the Macy's organization to change its mind about closing the San Francisco store.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Releases First Campaign Video As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of "recovery" — both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco's return to prosperity and his own struggles with alcohol.
SF Politics Aaron Peskin Makes Mayoral Campaign Unofficial-Official; Breed Camp Already On the Attack SF Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who we've known is running for mayor for over a month now, is finally ready to make his official announcement, but first he leaked it to several news outlets again.
SF Politics Supervisors Override Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Density Limit Legislation, In Big Win for Peskin With two supervisors likely running for mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors flexed a supermajority and shot down Mayor Breed’s veto of their measure to limit large towers along parts of the city’s northern waterfront.
SF Politics Yes Indeed, Aaron Peskin Is Running for Mayor, According to Multiple Media Outlets Supervisor Aaron Peskin has repeatedly said he’s not running to be mayor of San Francisco in November 2024, but it was easy to dismiss those claims as a chess-match ploy. And now, multiple local media outlets say that yes, Peskin will run for mayor this year.
SF Politics Three SF Supervisors Say They’ve Received Death Threat Mailers After Garry Tan’s ‘Die Slow’ Tweet After a weekend uproar over a tweet in which local political donor Garry Tan posted that some SF supervisors should “Die slow,” three supervisors say they received physical hate mail citing the tweet and reading “I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”
SF Politics Peskin, Chan Making Noise About Suing the State Over Mandatory Housing Goals The latest drama over SF’s state-mandated goal to build more than 82,000 new housing units comes from Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, who want to blow up that mandate with a lawsuit, though City Attorney David Chiu may be unwilling to throw that bomb.
SF Politics SF Supe Floats Sweeping Charter Amendment to Enhance Some Mayoral Powers, and Curb Ballot-Box Governance San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman has proposed an amendment to the city charter that would bolster the power of the mayor while also discouraging some of the ballot-measure battles that have gone on in recent years between the Board of Supervisors and the mayor.
