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City Hall will NOT be the same - anymore. Soon, depending on our slow SF Department of Elections - they still have NOT learned how to walk the walk. The counting will stop eventually - we have a good sense - Eric Mar, JohnAvalos, David Campos, and David Chui are winning. We hope these new Supervisors - will end the nonsense of yester years - and take us all to a better - place. We need...
By Tim Redmond I was walking down Ocean Ave tonight and there were JohnAvalos workers at every corner, handing out slate cards and urging people to get to the polls. If visibility in the district is a factor, he's...
By Steven T. JonesJohnAvalos and his small army of campaign volunteers entered Bottom's Up bar as Barack Obama was giving his televised acceptance speech. It was a buoyant moment. Avalos had the lead with the absentee votes and...
Tim Redmond calls in to report from the Dept of Elections at City Hall: Still no results here, but I just talked to JohnAvalos who says his precinct reports are showing him way ahead. “We had 5,100 people identified...
Sup. Chris Daly displays finger puppets that look like supervisors-elect JohnAvalos, Eric Mar, and David Chiu, mocking efforts during the campaign to assert that they would be nothing but his puppets. By Steven T. Jones San Francisco progressives...
... The party raised money and put out slate mailers in the key districts, supporting Eric Mar, JohnAvalos and David Chiu. With the barrage of downtown attacks in those districts -- and the close margin of victory in District 1 -- the party, by linking Mar, Avalos and Chiu to the Obama campaign, helped make the difference. It's a new Democratic Party in this town, and that's one...
... Dufty joined the progressives to override the mayor's vetos. This time around, with Eric Mar, JohnAvalos and David Chiu replacing McGoldrick, Sandoval and Peskin, David Campos replacing Ammiano, Mirkarimi coming back for a second term and Daly in his final two years, the progressives ought to have a solid six-vote majority. But they can't start off with the two veterans, Mirkarimi...
... but he clearly isn't the leader of the progressive bloc. He has his allies -- incoming Sup JohnAvalos used to work for him -- but the other three newcomers have other alliances. David Campos ran with the support of Tom Ammiano; Daly backed Eric Quezada. David Chiu is way closer to current Board President Aaron Peskin than to Daly. Eric Mar, former School Board member, is friendly...
Looks like Chris Daly's alleged puppetry paid off: David Chiu, Eric Mar and JohnAvalos have been all but anointed as New Supes, despite the vote count not being officially over yet. Good news for rent control, bad news for...
Obama tees are our overalll favorite, but JohnAvalos tees are a hit, locally. The number one fashion hit, nationwide, was the ubiquitously beautiful Obama T-shirt. Ask anyone who wore an Obama tee on his election night, they'll recall...
The Elections Department, under pressure from citizens eager to see results, tallied ranked-choice votes in races for supervisor with about 100,000 votes still to be counted. Elections Director John Arntz said he expects the counting to be completed Tuesday.According to the preliminary tabulation, candidates currently leading in the vote count will win their races. They include Eric Mar in District...
By Tim Redmond The San Francisco Department of Elections has counted a bunch more ballots , and has run its first pass at ranked-choice voting. The good news is that the races in districts 3 and 11 are still solid -- JohnAvalos and David Chiu are well ahead. But District One has tightened a bit. Eric Mar is at 51.6 to 48.3 for Sue Lee. And since Lee won the absentees, this one could...
Click here to give something back for all downtown has given. By Steven T. Jones It'll take awhile to get a full accounting of all the money that downtown's would-be power brokers spent in their apparently fruitless effort to buy the Board of Supervisors, but my calculation of all of their independent expenditures attacking swing district supervisorial candidates Eric Mar, David Chiu, and John...
By Alex Jacobs Julio Ramos calmly sat back in his election HQ late Tuesday night after hearing about the numbers. Ramos held 15% of the vote and was 240 votes behind Myrna Lim, the closest competition. The race for District 11 supervisor will now be decided through ranked-choice voting, based on voters' second and third choices. JohnAvalos was leading with 29% to 24% for second place...
