Steve Moss' Election Wrap, Part 1 - The Potrero View

In this month's Potrero View, Steve Moss writes,

Last month District 10 voters elected a new Supervisor:  Malia Cohen.  In a hotly contested race, in which Lynette Sweet won the most first place votes, Cohen elbowed past her initial third place position to emerge the winner through the ranked choice voting process.  In the final tally just one-fifth of the voters identified Cohen as one of their three choices, enough for her to edge out Tony Kelly, who received the second most first place votes.

The election results tell a chaotic tale of a district in search of an identity.  The two Asian-American candidates, Marlene Tran and Teresa Duque, gathered more than 3,400 votes between them, reflecting a new, powerful, ethnic voting bloc.  Kelly beat me in Potrero, but didn’t crack the top five vote-getters in the district’s other three dominant communities:  Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, and Portola.  Cohen won without strong support from the Hill – she was sixth in terms of first place votes from our community – suggesting a political tilt towards the district’s southern neighborhoods.  More than 2,500 District 10 voters either didn’t select a supervisorial candidate, or spoiled their ballot by marking multiple politicians as their first choice. If these individuals had properly voted or participated in the supervisors’ race they’d have changed the outcome.

Read more at the Potrero View

Feeling Wonky

If you're really feeling wonky and want to dive into the election results further, try downloading the Excel spreadsheet to get a sense of where votes are going as candidates are eliminated.

http://www.sfelections.org/results/20101102/d10.html

Some interesting things pop out at me from this:

First, I'm glad to see (as evidenced by the low number of exhausted ballots for these candidates) that many of the people who voted for Hampton, Donaldson, Morris, and the other 'community candidates' ignored the candidates' pleas to 'vote for me and only me'. Also interesting that Sweet and Cohen picked up most of these candidates' votes, indicating a sense that they were perceived to also be 'community candidates'.

Eric Smith's endorsement of Malia Cohen didn't seem to help get her many of his votes, as more of his votes went to Kelly than Cohen.

Nearly 80% of DeWitt Lacy's votes go to Malia Cohen, suggesting either a racial or perhaps youth bent to these votes. The progressiveness of Tony Kelly made him the second-highest beneficiary of Lacy's votes.

Almost half of Teresa Duque's votes get picked up by Marlene Tran, despite Duque bad-mouthing Tran for months. This could indicate a racially-based preference, one that should be strongly acknowledged by those running in future races. If Duque hadn't been in the race at all, Tran would have started out with far and away more votes than any other candidate.

Moss' votes go to Kelly 2:1 over Cohen and 2:1 over Sweet, an interesting commentary that people seemed to have voted 'Potrero Hill' over politics, as Moss is more closely aligned with both Sweet and Cohen than Kelly, by far.

Tran's votes also go 2:1 to Kelly over Cohen and 2:1 to Kelly over Sweet, suggesting that her endorsement of him as her #2 paid off.

In Round 19, Sweet's votes go to Cohen 3:1 over Kelly, which is what puts her over the top and makes her the leader in the race. But, with only 150 votes between the first and second place candidates, it would only take Kelly picking up 10 more votes than Cohen each round for him to pull it out, but that may actually be more difficult than one would think.

Keep watching!! There are still plenty of ballots to be counted (late absentee and provisional), so this could all change.

My Big Idea of the Day!

Piggybacking off a comment made yesterday, maybe I should have a somewhat daily post of residents' and readers' "Big Ideas of the Day". Let's give it a try - send me your Big Idea of the Day and I'll post it here (with full credit, of course!).

OK, here's my not-quite-as-well-thought-out-as-it-ought-to-be-for-prime-time Big Idea of the Day! I just read about AB1871 being signed into law at SF.Streetblog

Read the article ar SF Streetblog first before commenting!

My idea: Neighborhoods comprising a certain number of households could buy a car or two for the program. Those cars would then get city-designated parking spaces on the street on condition that a certain percentage of the households on the block agree to give up one of their personal cars. Those cars could be new or (preferably) existing vehicles (no older than 10 years) that are currently owned by local residents that would be sold to be used in the program.

As an added incentive to get rid of those extra cars, the city could begin to levy additional taxes on residents who have more than two personal vehicles registered to their address. The added taxes could help neighborhoods fund the purchase of vehicles for the car share program.

OK, let me have it (be nice!).

SF Examiner today

A very good read in today's Examiner that covers basics on many of the candidates.

Transforming neighborhood draws crowded supes race
By: Joshua Sabatini

Whoever prevails in the race to represent The City’s southeastern neighborhoods will play a large part in San Francisco’s economic development for years to come.

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SFUSD Local Schools Plan - SFGate

SF School Board OKs plan to offer more choices - Jill Tucker, Chronicle

The San Francisco school board put the finishing touches on a new and long-awaited student assignment system Tuesday night, giving children a better shot at getting a seat at the school down the street while still offering families a choice if they want a different site.

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How does this help D10? Hopefully, one of the things that it does is that it gets kids off their long MUNI commute and puts them into quality local classrooms. Of course, we have to get higher quality local schools for that to happen. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction, though.

I'm sure this will be a topic of conversation this Saturday, 3PM, at the "Family-Friendly D10 Candidates Forum" at St Gregory's Church:

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Co-hosted by Saint Gregory's Church and Daniel Webster School PTA.

This is a non-partisan, unbiased, completely independent, unsponsored forum. The focus is on District 10 families and children. All candidates for Dist. 10 Supervisor, regardless of party or other affiliation(s), have been invited to participate.

RSVPs have been received from:

James Calloway
Malia Cohen
Teresa Duque
Kristine Enea
MJ Marie Franklin
Rodney Hampton
Chris Jackson
Tony Kelly
DeWitt Lacy
Geoffrea Morris
Steve Moss
Eric Smith
Lynette Sweet
Stephen Weber
Diane Wesley-Smith

A Google map with SF's Schools shown:

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Skeletons in Every Closet!?!

Steve Moss is getting a lot of attention at the SF Bay Guardian as allegations fly surrounding improprieties in residency, money diversion, ties to a group that promotes condo conversions and rails against tenant protections, etc. in articles in their paper:

Steve Moss, carpetbagger - 09/10/10
Steve Moss Responds - 09/13/10
Five Things You Should Know about Steve Moss - 09/14/10
Plan C Endorses Sweet and Moss - 09/21/10
The Real Steve Moss - 09/23/10

No other candidate has gotten this kind of scrutiny besides Lynette Sweet:

Lynette Sweet and IRS Strange Story - 09/02/10
Lynett Sweet, the "no-comment" candidate - 09/20/10
Plan C Endorses Sweet and Moss - 09/21/10
Lynette Sweet's Finances: Curiouser and Curiouser - 09/27/10

Why is it that SFBG and other local news outlets aren't pressing the other candidates on the skeletons in their own closets that are perhaps just as bad, or, at the very least, simply raise questions about these candidates' willingness to disclose information to voters or help us figure out how they'd operate as our supervisor?

Has Ms Sweet's tax evasion "mix-up" simply faded and become a non-issue? Maybe not, as SFBG has a piece on it today and BeyondChron mentions it as a reason Ms Sweet has dropped out of the lead pack. An allegation by a commenter here on D10CanWatch regarding a large unpaid tax bill for Tony Kelly's "Thick Description" theater company may raise eyebrows, and questions like these need to be answered directly by the candidates so as to tamp down the rumor-mill. As Mr. Kelly responds to voters, in part,

"Like so many small theatre companies in this economy, the one I ran - Thick Description - has had its share of tough times.

"Thick Description has a significant tax debt to the IRS. The company has a proposed repayment plan for that debt, based on the proceeds of Thick Description's contract with another company to help them run their new theater, opening in the summer of 2011. While the IRS considers that repayment plan, and even during that repayment, the agency will hold liens on the company to protect its claim; those liens will be released as the debts are paid off over the coming five years."

Read Mr. Kelly's full response here.

I've heard a couple of times as-yet-unfounded allegations regarding Ms Sweet and Ms Cohen actually living in the district. Of course, these latter allegations could be completely bogus, but since no one in the main stream media seems to be looking into these things and asking (and finding answers to) the truly tough questions of the candidates, we may never actually know.

I'm still waiting to hear back from Ms Sweet and Ms Cohen on these questions, but, in one case, a quick look in the phone book lists Malia J Cohen as living on Silliman Ave in 94134, which is indeed outside D10. Is this our candidate Malia Cohen's actual home? Her candidate filing papers all list a 94134 ZIP, but since the actual address is redacted in the publicly available version of those papers, it's not possible to tell anything more. If this is her, why is she listed in the phone book as living outside D10, and when did she purchase her home in D10 as she claims on her website to have done?

My point is, sure, some skeletons are less important than others, but are all the other candidates so squeaky-clean that the media isn't even going to do more investigation on them? Why aren't the candidates themselves publicly asking these tough questions of one another? Have they all taken a vow of silence on these issues, and if so, would that be the backroom kind of political dealings that we would want from our next supervisor?

Portola Festival today

See you on San Bruno Ave today, 10AM - 4PM.

http://www.portolafestival.org/

Just got back from the festival on San Bruno, with a couple of observations... Teresa Duqué, Tony Kelly, DeWitt Lacy, Steve Moss, Lynette Sweet, Marlene Tran, Steven Weber, and Diane Wesley-Smith all had booths, while Eric Smith, Chris Jackson and Kristine Enea were there pressing the flesh. Malia Cohen was the only majorly endorsed candidate whom I didn't see there.

In talking to the candidates and voters today, one overarching theme made itself plainly clear - the candidates have GOT to show up on doorsteps and at street fairs if they want votes. Steve Weber told me that he went and knocked on a voter's door the other day, and was told that the last candidate to do so was Dan White. Dan Frickin' White, people!! A couple of voters remarked how, not only was Steve Moss at the Portola Garden Tour yesterday, but that he is at ALL the Portola and Visitacion Valley vigils and events, and really seems to get it when it comes to voter communication and engagement. Furthermore, they said that this, over everything else they're reading in the papers about him, is the most important thing to them. You get to know the people of the district by talking to them, not by sitting in a bubble thinking that you understand them or by waiting for them to come to you. This is why Tony Kelly was at the coast clean-up yesterday, to show engagement with the community. Like his politics or not, he gets out there, and that is important to voters. Like her or not, this is why Sophie Maxwell shows up to so many events, even if just to show face.

Marlene Tran, whom a couple of candidates seemed to be wooing at the League of Women Voters forum last week, made some hugely obvious points to me that only she seems to get - namely that, if you're coming to a street fair, whether you're a candidate, the SF voting commission, or a local group, KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE! A large percentage of the people in the Portola, Silver Terrace, and Vis Valley sections of D10 speak a Chinese language as their first language, and for many of them (60% according to Marlene), as their only language. Why did the city have two non-Chinese-language-speakers sitting in its booth trying to get people to register to vote? Ms Tran likely signed up more voters in ten minutes than the city did all day, because she knows her audience and can provide someone, herself in this case, to talk to the voters in a language they understand.

Candidates, the job of Supervisor is more than a full-time job. From the moment you filed papers to run, you gave up your personal lives. The jobs of candidate and supervisor are an every day affair, and what this election is showing us more than anything is who's up to the task. Showing up and answering a few questions at a forum is one thing, but what we need to see is you, the candidates, at every event, whether it be picking up trash, at a street fair, or just talking to people and telling them what you are about as you walk through their favorite park or down their favorite street with them.

If you chose not to come to one event because you have another to attend, that's fine, but instead of just blowing off a community-building street fair like the one today, you need to organize a crack team to work the events you can't so as to make sure you're represented. But if 80% of your competition is showing up to an event, you'd better do the same, and all the endorsements in the world won't keep you from being toast come election day. And those who do show up had better have a person with them who can cross a language barrier when it arises.

D10 Endorsement Interviews - SFBG (Updated)

Over at San Francisco Bay Guardian, they've been talking to the candidates to see whom they like:

DeWitt Lacy

Steve Moss

Tony Kelly

Lynette Sweet - the story on her is more a re-hashing of the Matier and Ross piece from a few days ago, with a couple of sensible explanations for what happened to the cashier's check. However, at the bottom of the piece in SFBG, Tim Redmond writes:

"By the way, I also invited Sweet to come down to the Guardian for an endorsement interview, and she had her campaign manager call to say she'd declined to talk to us. That's pretty unusual behavior, esp. for an elected official. Even Gavin Newsom came to talk to us when he was running for re-election for mayor and we'd been blasting him for four years. Pretty weak."

Eric Smith

Malia Cohen

Chris Jackson

DeWitt's on the Board

Just noticed DeWitt Lacy has raised some cash this year after all - $4229 from 71 people this year. Who-hoo!! I guess it was difficult for his campaign treasurer in West Hollywood to get this information in to the SF Ethics Commission in a timely manner.

Um, Mr Lacy, why is your campaign for San Francisco Supervisor based in West Hollywood?

Who's Topped the $100K Threshold in Money Raised?

Candidates file form SFEC-152(a)-2 when they reach the $100,000 threshold in funds raised through monetary contributions, in-kind contributions, and public funds.

So, who's reached the magic $100K mark?



Malia Cohen $100,469.99 (form submitted 09/14/10)
Steve Moss $101,006.00 (form submitted 09/08/10)

They subsequently have to file this form every time they get another $10K.

Candidates out and about this past weekend

Did anyone have any comments about this past weekend's events, either at the Leland Ave Street Fair or in Potrero Hill, where candidates were out stumping and looking for votes?

Flog That Dead Horse, SFBG

Over at the SF Bay Guardian, they're acting like a dog with its favorite chew toy. It seems to me that ALL of the candidates have serious cred when it comes to D10. The fact that Mr Moss moved back after a couple of years' absence, even if it was to run for office, is not an issue. The work that he has done with the Potrero View and SF Power are D10-centric. He knows the district, or at least Potrero Hill, and feels he knows it well enough to to let voters decide if he should represent the district at City Hall.

As for other top candidates, Enea has been living in and volunteering on multiple BVHP redevelopment CAC's and PAC's since she bought her house in India Basin in 2005, so don't go calling her a carpetbagger. Smith moved in a little more than a year ago, but his wife's family has deep roots and he's done some worthwhile things in D10 in the past few years, both of which gives him cred in this regard. Jackson's grandparents lived a long time in the Bayview, and although it's unclear when he moved back, he's only 27, so the fact that he decided to move to the Bayview tells me it means a lot to him to be here. Cohen's family goes back four generations in the Bayview, and it seems she only moved away to attend school, while Sweet grew up in the Bayview as well, so both their D10 ties are tight. Kelly has lived in San Francisco since the late 80's and has deep, self-made roots in D10. Lacy grew up in San Jose and moved to SF to attend school in '95. Duqué and Tran have lived and volunteered in Vis Valley for over twenty years each.

As far as I can tell, all of the candidates have some, if not a lot, of cred when it comes to D10 ties. This whole non-issue needs to be put to rest, and the SFBG needs to stop with the 'endorsement interviews' and just tell us whom they're backing, cuz they've obviously made up their minds and it is sure as heck isn't Moss or any pragmatists. The SFBG reporters also need to get to the issues and stop distractions like this from wasting readers' time.

Leland Ave Fair This Sunday

This Sunday, Sept 19th, is the Leland Ave Street Fair in Visitacion Valley



I mention it here because the guest list on Facebook indicates that several candidates for D10 supervisor will be there! They include:

Malia Cohen, Teresa Duqué, Kristine Enea, Rodney Hampton, Tony Kelly, Marlene Tran, and Stephen Weber

The lineup for the day:

10:00 AM MC: Atim opens event

10:10 AM Siva Polynesia

10:30 AM Sana
...
10:45 AM Back Porch Band

11:45 AM Native Elements

12:30 PM Community Cpeakers

12:45 PM Pete Escovedo Orchestra

2:15 PM Fog City

3:15 PM Soul Society

For more info, Leland Ave Fair

Top Candidate Pages

Thanks to Kristine Enea, Tony Kelly, Steve Moss, Eric Smith, and Marlene Tran for providing me with information so that I could write my piece on the candidates for the Potrero View (and for here, too).

I get it that the PV is run by Mr Moss, and that some candidates may be wary of him and/or his motivations, but honestly, his are likely to be the same motivations as yours, so if you're wary of him, then are we all to be wary of you, too? As our supervisor, you're going to have to trust people, folks, and yes, sometimes you'll get burned, but I don't think we want a paranoid candidate who is always playing politics, do we?

If I hear from Cohen, Duqué, Jackson, Lacy, or Sweet, I'll update their pages, too, but for now, they're the candidates who didn't respond to me and my request for some simple information to help them look good. The question in my mind right now is, how will they respond to me - and to voters - if and when their help is needed should one of them become our supervisor?

For me, this whole exercise ended up being a bit of a test to see which candidates are accessible to Joe Q. Public.

Questions for the Candidates

Steve Moss (D10 Candidate and publisher of the Potrero View) asked me last week to compile for his newspaper some basic biographical information on the top candidates. Apologies to those I haven't asked for info, but my 'top candidates' are those who've garnered the greatest buzz (press), have collected the largest amounts of money (yes, money), and quite honestly, have the greatest chance of winning among the remaining 21 candidates.

I sent an email to all the candidates last week asking for basic stuff, and have heard back from... Steve Moss.

OK, candidates, if you're reading this, I'm not doing some Steve Moss-centric piece for the PV. I don't work for Mr Moss, and he's not paying me to do this. I'm posting what I find here on my site, as well as writing the piece for the PV. Potrero Hill is important to your election, and how you come across to the voters there WILL affect your chances of winning. I am writing this completely unbiased, and am basically putting in the PV information that you have on your websites or that is totally public if people care to go looking for it. I'm just doing the legwork for them.

For you to be cast in the absolute best light, it would behoove you to send me some info (pretty basic, really) instead of having the words 'no reply' next to the simple questions I've posed. If I can't find info on your website, you're going to get a 'no reply'.

My deadline is Thursday. It'd be great to hear from all y'all.

You'll find the stuff that I find on the left side of this page under the "D10 Candidate Pages" section.

- your humble blogger, Chris

Steve Moss - the next Ed Jew? (Update)

Steve Moss has responded to the article from a few days ago in the SF Bay Guardian.


I don't ever want to see our city and the reputation (such as it is) of the BOS dragged through the crapper like it was during the Ed Jew scandal.

I don't personally think there's anything to this but pot-stirring, but Sarah Phelan over at SFBG think she may be onto just such a scandal.

The important point in the time-line is that the potential candidate has to have lived in the district for 30-days prior to filing the Candidate Declaration Form. The question is whether a potential candidate can live outside the district when filing a Candidate Intention Statement, or can use a non-home address in the earlier filing. This I don't know.

So, for two years out of ten, he and his family lived in a building he owns in D8 and then moved back to D10 in February, months before filing the Declaration form. Unless there are regulations surrounding residency in the Intention statement, or that the street address used on that form must be your home address, then this shouldn't be a problem. Sure, maybe he's not the 10-years full-time resident of D10 he has been saying he is, but with the community candidates touting their generations of D10 roots, it's a natural response to that to try to pump up your own 'local-boy' cred.

Meeting the Candidates at the Youth Forum

I have to thank all of the candidates for seeming to be genuinely appreciative of what I'm trying to do here with this little blog. DeWitt Lacy was the only one who seemed a bit confrontational, looking me dead in the eye and asking, "Are you a Progressive? Do you believe in rights for the working man?" Uh, nice to meet you, too, DeWitt.


I spoke to as many as I could, some more at length than others. Marlene Tran and I talked a little about immigration, Malia gave me a big hug, but I didn't get to talk to her much after that, Lynette Sweet told me she's trying to stay out of trouble, Tony Kelly called me bald (I prefer 'hair challenged', please :D), and Steve Moss lamented that none of the candidates seem to trust him because of his position at the Potrero View, to the point where they won't even take him up on his offer of 50% discounts on ads. Ed Donaldson and Kristine Enea joked about Beth Spotwood's take on Ed as one of the best looking candidates in the race, and Kristine joked about Steve Moss and Tony Kelly wondering aloud at a previous forum as to why she's so awesome.

Chris Jackson made a good point to me about the segregation of the four distinct neighborhoods in D10 - Vis Valley, The Portola, Bayview, and Potrero Hill - and how, as a candidate, it's extremely difficult to run a campaign in this district when something comes up that might be good for one part but would be bad for another. There are commonalities, but there are also huge differences, and whomever becomes supervisor will have to have staff devoted to each segment of the district to help them sort everything out.

During the Q&A, one young audience member spoke out of turn and was subsequently ejected. What is it with people getting ejected from these forums!?! Afterward, Geoffrea Morris made a very good point that she should have been allowed to stay, because she is the face of the frustration with City Hall that D10 kids, parents, seniors, and business owners all have. People need to know that they are being spoken to and listened to by someone who understands them and their needs. The biggest frustration in life is telling somebody something and then having them ignore you. When frustrated, these kids need to be able to turn to people who will listen, give them structure, and give them praise for a job well done. Unfortunately, when parents, elected officials, teachers and employers don't seem to be there to provide that positive reinforcement, kids will, and do, turn to the bad elements of our society - drug dealers, pimps, gangs - to get the validation they crave.

One thing that struck me, having attended a few of these meetings now, was how some candidates have their stock, mirror-practiced stump-speeches at the ready for whatever question comes their way. Steve Moss is always asked about how he can know anything about the rest of D10 when he's from Potrero, and he always replies with his "I'm the only candidate who got 1000 signatures" and "I replaced 2000 toilets" speech. OK, it's good to stay on message, but the reality is that walking through a neighborhood and knocking on doors isn't the same as living those peoples' lives, which for many of the candidates is impossible to do. But, you have to make them believe that you understand their personal hardship and can offer them a possible way out. When Steve Weber reiterates that he converted his 2-BR home into a 4-BR home, how does that address any of the questions of the audience of 13-18 year-olds he's talking to? Kristine Enea with her "esoteric land use" speech may work well with people who know what 'eroteric' means, but with a group of kids who have up to 75 kids in their classrooms (yes, this is what one of the questioners reported about her school) and barely have access to text books and teachers, the delivery needs to change. I'm not saying to the candidates to "dumb it down" or patronize anyone, but know your audience and speak to them accordingly.

My take was that Lynette Sweet and Malia Cohen both brought their A-games to the forum, answering questions well and appropriately to the target audience. Some of the 'vote for me and nobody else in this ranked-voting scheme' candidates played to the audience well, too (Morris, Joshua, Wesley-Smith, Hampton). Honestly, though, there are just too darned many candidates to get anything substantive out of any of them during these forums.

Next stop, Sept 22nd at UCSF.

D10 Candidates Should Disclose Their #2 and #3 Ballot Choices

We have 22 candidates in the race for District 10 supervisor. Obviously, only one can win. We've had some very strong endorsements come out recently, plus some rather tepid ones, from across the city. It's a reality that there are only a few candidates who have a shot at actually winning the seat, and many more who don't.


Obviously, each candidate is going to put themselves, and tell supporters to put them, in the #1 position, but would it be too much to ask of every candidate to indicate whom THEY would endorse to go in the #2 and #3 position on the ranked-choice ballot? I don't think that this would detract from anyone's candidacy in the least, but it would give their supporters an idea whom their favorite would choose themselves.

If some candidates are on the ballot to help bring out the vote of traditionally under-represented communities, then people from those communities may be voting in a local election for the first time, may not know that they can make three choices, may not know how the ranked-choice system works, and as such, may only vote for their favorite candidate who brought them to the polls in the first place, leaving the other two positions blank. If their candidate gets dropped in the rounds of the ranked-choice system, then that voter who voted for them won't actually get to have a voice after all if they haven't also put someone's name in for #2 and #3.

Candidates, please think about endorsing your fellow candidates for the #2 and #3 slots.

Democratic Club Endorsements

I don't know about you, but I think that the D10 Democratic clubs and the larger DCCC have given us quite a lot to think about.


Democratic Club endorsements range from one for (Potrero Hill resident) Tony Kelly by the Potrero Hill DC, to one for (Bayview resident) Lynette Sweet by the Bayview Hunters Point DC, to one for Malia Cohen by the African American DC, to one for DeWitt Lacy by the SFDCCC.

The question is, do voters pay much attention to these endorsements? If the answer is 'yes', then I think that the Potrero Hill endorsement is the key one to look at, as Potrero Hill is where the majority of the people who actually vote in D10 live. Personally, I'm not so sure how strongly endorsements play into things here.

If in-district money raised is a factor, then Tony Kelly is looking pretty good right now. He has raised more money from D10 voters (albeit ALL from 94107) than any other candidate. Somewhat surprisingly, Marlene Tran is #2 on the D10 money haul, though the majority of her money comes from her base in 94134 (Vis Valley). Lynette Sweet and Kristine Enea come in next, with Enea #1 in fundraising from 94124 (Bayview). Cohen and Lacy have done an abysmal job in raising funds from within the district, although Cohen's second place to Steve Moss at the top of the public funds disbursement list speaks to the heap o' cash she's raked in from outside the district. Lacy, on the other hand, hasn't raised ANY money since June, and only $745 since the beginning of the year!! How is he funding his campaign without money, and why would DCCC pick someone who has no money or apparent desire to run a campaign? Is this all an elaborate plot?

OK, there's something fishy here...

I'll look into the money issue more in a later post, but in the end, no one candidate has sewn up all the endorsements, and as it was before, this race could still be considered to be wide open. Those who've gotten an endorsement have a gust of wind at their backs, and those without will just have to work a little harder to be heard above the white noise generated by the ten or fifteen 'me too' candidates.

Democratic County Central Committee Endorsements

The SFDCCC voted tonight to determine whom they would suggest backing in the District 10 Supervisor election.

The rankings that the DCCC has chosen are:

1. DeWitt Lacy
2. Malia Cohen
3. Eric Smith

Um... Comments?

Interesting... From Beyond Chron, "Lacy was a 'consensus pick' – nobody had a real problem with him." Is that an enthusiastic endorsement? Me thinks not!! Why, with such a 'progressive' DCCC, did they not pick a progressive like Kelly or Jackson, particularly after Kelly had just gotten the Potrero Hill DC's endorsement?