With the June 2 primary approaching, Garry's List has launched a voter guide pulling together endorsements from housing, labor, and civic reform groups on SF races and measures. Behind the election, deeper fights are playing out: Mayor Lurie is pushing the city's first comprehensive charter reform in 30 years while taking on the open-air drug crisis, but a broken affordable housing pipeline — exposed by SFMTA's quiet elimination of 365 promised units at Potrero Yard — shows how much structural dysfunction still remains.
June 2 is coming up. We're here to empower informed choices.
The Mission spent eight years in working groups designing housing that SFMTA admitted was only ever a future possibility — never a funded commitment. Then the city cut 365 units and called it a compromise.
SF's 540-page city charter is the longest in the country, and it was built to protect insiders. Lurie is finally tearing it apart.
Drug arrests collapsed to zero. Overdose deaths tripled to 810 per year. The data is in, and so is the body count.
San Francisco's two most 'progressive' supervisors were the only no votes on Mayor Lurie's shelter for drug users. The body count speaks for itself.
California labor law says unions can only strike after completing the impasse process. UESF skipped the steps and called a strike anyway.
UESF is striking Monday—even though Union sources say they'll just accept the same deal in a few days they could take today.
The SF Latinx Democratic Club reinstated its leader after sexual assault allegations—then fled the SF Dem party when Nancy Tung called for accountability
Dean Preston championed Providence Foundation as a model partnership. Now two employees face fraud charges.
Paid operatives weaponized fake harassment claims to protect Pelosi. When the lies collapsed, they just pivoted to new attacks.