When progressives attack, S.F style

[wonkwest]

The mayoral race is hilarious to me. If you’re a progressive - very liberal compared to the party - Jane Kim was probably your person. Jay Leno was a safe liberal pick. London Breed was establishment all the time. So S.F. Has a ranking system. You get first choice and second choice.

So the liberal Left basically told Breed to go to hell. It’ll all wash out in November. But I’m amused. She politiciked very hard on her race and gender and intimated if you don’t vote for her, you’re an awful person.

Like this poor people you fucked over, London?

Shame about the Internet. It remembers everting.

Unrelated: didn’t realize Leno was gay. Had no idea. Voted for him based on research, friend reccomendations, and opinions here. So, happy bonus.

[MrsCoffee]

1. I had no idea Jay Leno was running.....

[MineralMan]

2. Jay Leno is running for Mayor of SF?

I think you probably mean Mark Leno.

[TimeSnowDemos]

3. Your definition of progressive

is a bit.... meh.

Tell me - specifically - which progressive values you think are too extreme.

Which progressive values the DNC doesn't support.

Because, as far as I can tell, the DNC has been loudly saying it's the party for progressives for quite a while now.

Which of these Dems should be concerned?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

[TimeSnowDemos]

4. It's not Jay Leno

http://www.markleno.com/

[NCTraveler]

5. Seems Breed did extremely well with first place votes.

When the first-place votes were counted Tuesday night, Breed was on top with 35.6 percent to Leno’s 25.9 percent, Supervisor Jane Kim’s 22.8 percent and former Supervisor Angela Alioto’s 7.6 percent.

There was coordination between the other two campaigns.

But Leno and Kim had encouraged each other’s supporters to list the other as their second-place choice, and it paid off big time for Leno — he received 77 percent of Kim’s second-place votes.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-mayor-s-race-Ranked-choice-puts-Mark-Leno-12970895.php

"She politiciked very hard on her race"

Probably why she crushed it with first place votes. Breed outperformed almost all polling with respect to first place votes.

This is from just over an hour ago.

Leno has a lead of about 1,200 votes at 50.42 percent and London Breed is at 49.58 percent, with many more votes still needed to be counted.

http://abc7news.com/politics/leno-holds-slight-lead-over-breed-in-sf-mayors-race/3568550/

The op has made me feel like I just read a RawStory headline.

[deurbano]

6. "It'll all wash out in November": No, whoever wins now is mayor.

I voted for Leno (and for #2, Kim) , but I wasn't telling Breed to go to hell. I just prefer Leno.

[Blue_true]

8. You answered my question from above. Thanks.

I would guess that most, if not all the candidates in the race are progressives. I live in Florida, so the particulars of SF politics are alien to me, that is why I love reading RandySF posts, he has his foot on Cali politics (Disagree with him on Gavin Newsom, but I also don't live in Cali like he does).

[Blue_true]

7. How does the SF Mayor race go. Did Leno win outright on Tuesday.

Or does he face Breed in November?

[deurbano]

9. He hasn't won yet. Still something like 90,000 ballots to process!

So far, they've processed about 150,000 ballots, and Leno is only ahead by about 1200 votes. They are still processing ballots that arrived by mail on election day... plus ballots that were dropped off on election day... plus provisional ballots cast on election day.... plus anything that is postmarked Tuesday and arrives by this Friday... plus whatever else I am missing. My daughter heard that three people have to look at each of these ballots to prevent mistakes. And each ballot is 4 pages... plus then there is the whole ranked voting aspect. It's complicated and may take two weeks (or more)!

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/London-Breed-Continues-Lead-in-Race-for-San-Francisco-Mayor-484659301.html

And then, as you gathered from the previous post, the election is decided, with no run-off.