Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Ashbury Heights residents and neighborhood allies, now's your chance. District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi is holding a Town Hall meeting tonight (7 p.m., County Fair Building) to discuss and debate the massive overhaul the SFMTA has planned for Muni, including...
Politics (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
By Tim Redmond The new board will have, if anything, a stronger progressive presence than the outgoing board. For the past four years, Tom Ammiano, Chris Daly and Ross Mirkarimi have held down the left flank, with Board President Aaron...
Politics (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
By Jeremy Spitz From the scene at Rassela’s on Fillmore you might assume that the whole world, or at least the whole city, is celebrating tonight. The party is ostensibly for the re-election of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi in District 5...
Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Haight supe Ross Mirkarimi is following the tried-and-true "This Street Has Too Many (Insert Business Here)" formula and taking a stand on the very biz that's made the Haight... well, the Haight: head shops.There are just freakin' "way too many"...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... members nodded their heads during the report, and at least three, Jake McGoldrick, Tom Ammiano and Ross Mirkarimi, offered words of support."Clearly, I like where this is going," said Mirkarimi.The congestion toll, if implemented, would be the first in the nation. Similar tolls, also known as cordon tolls, have been used in London and Stockholm, where they're credited with...
Politics (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... in 2011.” The crowd included several politicians who may end up running for mayor, including Sup. Ross Mirkarimi, City Attorney Dennis Herrera, and state Senator-elect Mark Leno, all of whom spoke at the event and praised the coalescing of movements on the left. “From the national level down to the local level, it was about coalitions,” Herrera said. “What we’re doing here is going...
The San Francisco Business Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... State Sen.-elect Mark Leno, San Francisco Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Chris Daly, Gerardo Sandoval, Ross Mirkarimi, Jake McGoldrick and Bevan Dufty, State Assembly Majority Whip Fiona Ma, Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, and a host of other political, community, ethnic organization and religious leaders.Only 155 of the signers are listed on the UHW’s web site. A spokeswoman...
Politics (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... with others on the board and is far too independent to just do what Daly says. And of course, Sup. Ross Mirkarimi isn't going to follow Daly's lead. Daly has made it clear that he shouldn't and won't be board president. And with Peskin and Ammiano leaving, there's no clear "leader" of the "progressive bloc." That's why the race will be so interesting.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
San Francisco voters kept the current political makeup of their Board of Supervisors, as they chose new leaders in three critical races, while two incumbents who faced no significant opposition held onto their seats. Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi in District...
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Here is a list of Green Party candidates who won elected office in 2008. There’s 18. More results may come in. Arkansas Richard Carroll was elected to Arkansas State Legislature, District 34. California Bruce Delgado was elected to Mayor of Marina City, Monterey County, CA (pop. 25,000) Ross Mirkarimi was re-elected to San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 5 (the [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... District Nine and John Avalos in District 11.Incumbent supervisors Carmen Chu, Sean Elsbernd and Ross Mirkarimi have won their races to retain their seats on the 11-member board.The preliminary tabulation released Friday showed Mar would defeat Sue Lee in District One, with 51 percent of the vote to Lee's 48 percent; Chiu would beat Joseph Alioto Jr. in District Three, 59 percent...
SFist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Incumbents Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi ( District 5 ), Carmen Chu ( D4 ), and Sean Elsbernd ( D7 ) all managed to hold onto their seats on the board of supervisors. They're safe. In District 1 , Eric Mar leads at 42.4% this morning (followed by Sue Lee and Alicia Wang trailing at second and third, respectively), primed to swipe Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's spot. Filling Aaron Peskin's...
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... Gayle McLaughlin, and Craig Litwin, appointed Mayor in Sebastopol. In San Francisco, incumbent Ross Mirkarimi retained his spot on the Board of Supervisors with a whopping 77 percent of the vote. Mark Sanchez, current president of the SF Board of Education, was second in his district race for the board, but tens of thousands of votes are yet to be counted, and ranked choice voting...
Politics (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... makes that difference up. Same as D1 -- this one's pretty safe. D4, Carmen Chu. Re-elected. D5, Ross Mirkarimi. Re-elected D7. Sean Elsbernd. Re-Elected. In District 9, David Campos has 35 percent of the vote, Mark Sanchez 29 and Eric Quezada 21. The absentees won't change much here; Campos won the early absentees, Sanchez was second. This will come down to the Quezada votes; if they...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi in District Five and Sean Elsbernd in District Seven were expected to easily win re-election, though no results were available by press time Tuesday. "I'm excited and very much look forward to the next four years," said Elsbernd, who called his expected victory "a ratification of the previous four years."Mirkarimi, who is expected to become the first...
