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That's what happens when people just vote for their party for local government—politicians don't have good ideas or successful policies cause they don't have to

• wolverine876 5y ago
  How do local SF elections work? Are they partisan? If so, aren't the primaries where the real action is, often with plenty of choices?
  • _dain_ 5y ago
    it's a one-party state with significant control by a few wealthy local real estate oligarchs.
  • sagarm 5y ago
    SF has ranked choice voting for local seats, no primary. Anyone willing to put an (R) next to their name doesn't have a serious chance, because they're clearly just out of step with the city. In practice elections are often quite competitive between the two major Democratic factions: moderates and progressives. Right now the mayor (Breed), state reps (Weiner, Chiu), and congressional rep (Pelosi) are moderates. The board of sups is 6-3 prog dominated, partially due to Breed becoming mayor and her seat being lost to apartment-tax Preston. There's a shuffle happening right now due to the downstream consequences of Harris becoming VP that will result in Chiu's seat being taken by prog-allied Haney or Campos (no viable moderate is running, I believe). The rest of the progs support Campos though, so Haney is shifting toward moderate positions (e.g. supporting housing approvals) to improve his chances.