With the dust settling from San Francisco's March 5 election, we’re entering into a period of “moderate-on-moderate violence.”
Luis Ángel Firpo puts Jack Dempsey out of the ring in 1923 in the famous painting by George Bellows. In what may or may not be an analog of San Francisco's forthcoming mayoral election, after Dempsey was knocked from the ring and pummeled by Firpo, he rallied to win the fight in the next round.
On a more terrestrial plane, the competition for mayoral endorsements will be fierce. And multifaceted: This is a multi-front war to be fought over the now moderate-heavy Democratic County Central Committee, the big-money groups spending with sailor-on-liberty ferocity over the last several election cycles, neighborhood and ethnic Democratic clubs and influential and quasi-influential individuals.
Let’s address the higher-end issue first. Many elections, if not most, are not particularly competitive. If we had a ranked-choice contest on what to have for dinner and the choices were pizza, haggis orAnd that leads to the forthcoming San Francisco mayoral election — and how, in some ways, it’s 180 degrees different than the race Breed won in 2018. One thing it certainly isn’t is a pizza-haggis-aspic competition.
And if he doesn’t come? We’ll come back tomorrow. And then the day after tomorrow. Possibly. And so on — Board President Aaron Peskin. Photo from May 2018 Ranked-choice voting needn’t be confusing, but politics often is. In 2018, even up to the penultimate seventh round of ranked-choice tabulations, Kim and Leno held nearly 57 percent of the vote. The electorate, at that time, was clearly leaning progressive — so multiple progressives entered the fray, split the vote, diluted their collective leverage and the contest was won by a moderate. It’s funny how that works.
“Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian ; San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.
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