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Vea cómo se postulan: Safaí acompaña a Farrell por el Excelsior, y se refiere a él como “mi amigo”

Read in EnglishDurante las últimas dos semanas antes de las elecciones, los artículos de campaña de Mission Local se estarán alternando diariamente entre los principales candidatos. Hoy es el turno de: London Breed. Lea los artículos anteriores aquí.Desde que Ahsha Safaí declaró su candidatura para la alcaldía en mayo de 2023, ha recorrido muchas veces el corredor de la calle Misión en Excelsior, pidiendo a los dueños de tiendas que coloquen sus letreros en las ventanas y solicitando el voto de los residentes. Sin embargo, hoy, Safaí no fue solo. Mark Farrell, su oponente en la contienda electoral por la alcaldía, con quien recientemente formó una alianza de votación por elección clasificada, lo acompaña cada vez más en la campaña. Es probable que esta alianza solo beneficie a Farrell, ya que Safaí, quien termina su mandato como supervisor del Distrito 11, […]

Karl The Fog October 29, 2024

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Safaí chaperones Farrell, ‘mi amigo,’ through Excelsior

For the last two weeks before the election, Mission Local’s campaign dispatches are switching daily between the major candidates. Today: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.Since Ahsha Safaí declared his candidacy for mayor in May 2023, he has walked the Mission Street corridor in the Excelsior many times, asking shop owners to put a Safaí sign in the window and asking residents for their vote. Nowadays, however, Safaí has company — Mark Farrell, his opponent in the mayoral race, with whom he recently formed a ranked-choice voting alliance, one that can only help Farrell as the termed-out District 11 supervisor will likely be the first of the frontrunners to have his votes redistributed.    So on Thursday, Safaí took on the staffer-like role of introducing Farrell to business owners. When Farrell ran into his linguistic limitations with Spanish-speaking voters, Safaí helped to translate. “My […]

Karl The Fog October 27, 2024

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Safaí and Farrell form an alliance. Why?

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: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.To the surprise of some, Ahsha Safaí, the District 11 supervisor and mayoral candidate from a working-class district, formed an alliance last week with Mark Farrell, the venture capitalist who once represented District 2, one of the wealthiest in the city.Both say they will ask their supporters to rank each other second on the ballot — although on Farrell’s social media post about ranked-choice voting Thursday, he only asked voters to “rank Ahsha Safaí on your ballot,” not necessarily second. In the ranked-choice voting system, voters can, in order of preference, rank up to 10 candidates. If voters follow the advice, the alliance will give Farrell a boost, as Safaí is running […]

Karl The Fog October 11, 2024

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Safaí supports both Prop. M and L, but one may nullify the other

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: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.Ahsha Safaí arrived at the Thursday “Yes on M” gathering at Castro Theater about twenty minutes late, missing his speaking slot for the measure that would change San Francisco’s business tax structure, making the city rely less on companies’ payroll expenses.Instead, it would be more dependent on the revenue a company earns in the city. As a result, It would remove the tax incentives for businesses to keep workers out of the city.  This proposition would also change the threshold of a small business exempt from gross receipt taxes, from $2.25 million to $5 million. And, a number of fees that small businesses pay would be eliminated.In effect, as Mission Local’s Joe […]

Karl The Fog October 11, 2024

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Safaí, city planner, talks transit, trees, rent control with architects

On Tuesday evening, Ahsha Safaí, the District 11 supervisor and mayoral candidate, was at a small event with architects at the William Duff Architects firm — an audience, more or less of his peers, for the MIT-trained city planner.After a longer-than-expected Board of Supervisors meeting, Safaí arrived at the firm’s kitchen around 6 p.m., about half an hour behind schedule. There was sparkling water, cashews in paper cones and a bottle of Excelsior wine — a fitting vintage for the Excelsior supervisor.Since the start of the year, the architectural firm has invited all leading mayoral candidates for a meet-and-greet, and this was the last. The firm, on Folsom and 9th streets, is located in a space transformed from a previous carpet store, with high wooden ceilings and a living tree growing in its center.  It was evident from the beginning that […]

Karl The Fog October 9, 2024

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Vea cómo se postulan: Líderes sindicales apoyan al candidato a la alcaldía Ahsha Safaí en Duboce Park

Read in EnglishUnos 50 sindicalistas se reunieron en el parque Duboce a primera hora de la mañana del sábado para apoyar la candidatura de Ahsha Safaí a la alcaldía.Safaí, supervisor del Distrito 11 y candidato a la alcaldía, había trabajado como director político del sindicato SEIU Local 87, que representa a los trabajadores de limpieza, durante ocho años, de 2008 a 2016.El sábado recibió el apoyo de tres sindicatos: SEIU Local 87 (poca sorpresa), United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 y Local 648. Con el sonido de fondo de los trenes Muni pasando por la avenida Duboce y los perros correteando y atrapando pelotas en sus paseos matutinos, los líderes sindicales que representan a trabajadores de supermercados, educadores, ingenieros fijos y conserjes pronunciaron discursos sobre cómo Safaí se ganó su apoyo.“En el momento álgido de la pandemia, no tuve […]

Karl The Fog September 8, 2024

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Vea cómo se postulan: Safaí, el candidato de los obreros, trabaja para apuntalar el respaldo sindical

Read in English Mission Local está publicando artículos de campaña para cada una/uno de los principales contendientes en la carrera por la alcaldía, alternando entre los candidatos semanalmente hasta noviembre. Esta semana:Ahsha Safaí. Lea los artículos anteriores aquí.El viernes por la mañana, Ahsha Safaí llegó al desayuno del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco previo al Día del Trabajo en el Hotel InterContinental, en el centro de la ciudad, alrededor de las 10 de la mañana. Safaí, que llevaba ocho años de carrera sindical cuando se postuló por segunda vez -y con éxito- como supervisor del distrito 11, se sentó junto a Olga Miranda, presidenta del sindicato SEIU Local 87 y antigua jefa suya.Safaí conoce bien a Miranda: Fue el director político del Local 87, que representa a los conserjes, de 2008 a 2016, trabajando en la inscripción de nuevos miembros en […]

Karl The Fog September 1, 2024

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Safaí, the labor candidate, working to shore up union backing

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: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.On Friday morning, Ahsha Safaí arrived at the San Francisco Labor Council’s pre-Labor Day breakfast at the InterContinental Hotel downtown at around 10 a.m. Safaí, who was eight years into a labor career when he first ran for public office in 2016 for District 11 supervisor, sat down next to Olga Miranda, the president of SEIU Local 87 and his former boss. Safaí knows Miranda well: He was the political director for Local 87, which represents janitors, from 2008 to 2016, working on signing up new members in non-unionized workplaces, organizing strikes, and pressuring politicians to support the union’s various campaigns, like involving custodians in talks when the city asked residents and downtown […]

Karl The Fog August 31, 2024

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Outer Sunset merchants grill Safaí on Great Highway

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: Ahsha Safaí. Read earlier dispatches here.The fog rolled in on the Upper Great Highway around noon on Tuesday, and dozens of cars drove down the oceanside road. Two blocks east of the highway, some 15 business owners of the Outer Sunset Merchant Association met with major mayoral candidates at the Outerlands restaurant on Judah Street and 45th Avenue — and the Upper Great Highway’s potential closure is on the top of everyone’s mind. A 2-mile stretch of the highway connecting San Francisco’s westside to Daly City and regions further down the Peninsula may be quite different after Election Day, if a ballot measure mandating its closure passes.The issue has become hotly contested: Dueling rallies took place over the […]

Karl The Fog August 28, 2024

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Vea cómo se postulan: Safaí se gana a los votantes de fiesta en fiesta

Read in EnglishMission Local está publicando artículos de campaña para cada una/uno de los principales contendientes en la carrera por la alcaldía, alternando entre los candidatos semanalmente hasta noviembre. Esta semana:Ahsha Safaí. Lea los artículos anteriores aquí.Era la típica fiesta de cuadra de Chinatown: Locales y turistas se reunieron en torno a la danza del león, jugaron al agujero de maíz y metieron boletos de rifa en una urna. El clima del domingo era más cálido de lo habitual: 75 grados con una agradable brisa. Ahsha Safaí llegó a la fiesta, celebrada entre las calles Clay y Sacramento de Grant Avenue Chinatown, hacia el mediodía para celebrar el 37 aniversario de APA Family Support Services, una organización que ofrece a las familias servicios de salud y prevención de la violencia doméstica en cantonés.“Siempre pasa algo en Chinatown. Hay que dejarse llevar”, […]

Karl The Fog August 27, 2024

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