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Preston, Mahmood joust over police funding, housing in contentious debate

Bilal Mahmood, an entrepreneur and District 5 supervisor candidate, repeatedly picked fights with incumbent Dean Preston at a Wednesday night debate, scolding the incumbent for saying he would defund the police, and for criticizing national policies around police funding. “You are sending a message to police officers that their work is ‘pointless’ and that is why we are unable to hire staff and we are unable to arrest fentanyl dealers today,” Mahmood said. Preston shot back. “If you want a politician who is just going to, every budget season, write a blank check to this police department of $50 million to $100 million extra, with no accountability on how that’s being spent — if you want that kind of person — maybe he’s [sitting] to my right.”  “He is,” Mahmood agreed “So you’re a rubber stamp for police budgets?” Preston said incredulously at the UC […]

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Breed and Farrell’s mutual attacks overshadow mayoral debate 

Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Mark Farrell. Read earlier dispatches here.Outside the cavernous Mission headquarters of the public radio giant KQED on Thursday night, a usually sleepy corner was overtaken with some 20 volunteers holding campaign signs. Inside 2601 Mariposa St.,  perhaps the most anticipated mayoral debate of the election season and likely the last to feature every major candidate was soon to kick off. Campaign staffers for London Breed and Daniel Lurie stood on opposite corners, waving campaign signs while cars passed by and honked. Alongside them stood another 20 disgruntled journalists with KQED itself, rallying to protest what they allege is illegal outsourcing and centralizing of television engineering jobs. The some 170 attendants streamed between the two jostling crowds.  The temperature […]

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San Francisco District 3 debate filled by conservative voices

Residents who listened to Friday night’s District 3 forum witnessed a supervisor race speeding toward a conservative endpoint, with five candidates poised to replace Supervisor Aaron Peskin often collectively supporting tough-on-crime measures and police commission reforms while opposing reparations for Black Americans. The sixth candidate, Wendy Ha Chau, didn’t attend the forum.The direction was led by candidate Matt Susk, who previously worked in private real estate and who is endorsed by organizations like the big-money groups Neighbors for a Better San Francisco and ConnectedSF, which is largely funded by Neighbors; San Francisco Association of Realtors; and the San Francisco Police Officers Association. Among the three leading candidates, Sen. Scott Wiener’s pick, Danny Sauter, occasionally emerged as the more progressive voice on stage, surpassing his two Peskin-endorsed competitors. He was the strongest pro-reparations voice, for example, among the candidates. The latter includes Moe […]

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