While the state labor group did not endorse Fielder, local unions can now support her campaign.Wiener, who noted that he has a 100% voting record during his time in Sacramento with the California Labor Federation, said labor groups originally signed off on the bill and then changed their position.The action “is disappointing and shortsighted,” he said.That kind of back-and-forth dispute with major players in California politics is something Fielder, who filed to run for state Senate about 18 months after moving to San Francisco, doesn’t have the experience to deal with, Wiener said.“There’s no way you can know a community as complex and diverse as San Francisco in only 18 months,” he said. And right now, we entrust it to about several dozen different big-name banks, like Bank of America, Citibank, and Royal Bank of Canada. “In San Francisco the argument is about how strong tenant protections should be, while in Sacramento the question is whether there should be any protections at all.”Issues that are settled questions in San Francisco — LGBT rights, sanctuary city rules, rent control and others — are battlegrounds in the Legislature.Supporters include progressive groups like Our Revolution, the California Progressive Alliance and the Democratic Socialists of America. Venerated progressive campaign consultant Jim Stearns allegedly assaulted a former campaign staffer of Chesa Boudin Tuesday night at an election party, according to witnesses.That same night, Supervisor Aaron Peskin fired Stearns from his 2020 re-election campaign, citing an “unfortunate interaction” between himself and his long-time friend and nine-time campaign consultant.Stearns and the campaign staffer he allegedly assaulted had previously disagreed about choices regarding Boudin’s campaign, according to multiple sources.Stearns counts some of San Francisco’s most well-known elected officials in his list of past clients, from City Attorney Dennis Herrera to former supervisors David Chiu, David Campos, former district attorney Kamala Harris, and most recently Boudin in his run for District Attorney.Stearns is now a campaign consultant for the Jackie Fielder for State Senate campaign.“He was my first choice because he’s the best,” Roisin Isner, Fielder’s campaign manager, said Wednesday.Stearns was attending Fielder’s state senate election party at Barrel Proof bar in the Mission Tuesday night when he allegedly shoved former Chesa Boudin campaign field director Steven Kight.Kight claims Stearns knocked him to the ground, causing a head injury.
It’s not free money. Our district has a million residents, and we’re expecting a turnout of about 500,000 people this November. Black people, Indigenous people, and Latinx people are angry, heartbroken, frustrated, and tired. Fielder suggested that he had talked with Cochran’s campaign manager … With Republicans making up fewer than 7% of the registered voters in the city and the Senate district, the political battles are typically intramural affairs featuring progressive Democrats and left-leaning independent voters.“Narrow issues divide candidates in San Francisco, and that’s not always true in Sacramento,” said Corey Cook, vice provost at St. Mary’s College and a former political science professor at the University of San Francisco. Dean Preston, Your opponent has given back some of his police union funding, but I assume he’s funded by other conservative forces. I’ve turned these concerns into laws.”A legislator needs to work with a variety of groups and people to get bills passed, Wiener added, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t disputes.While he has worked with developers and land owners, he said, “I’ve stood up to the real estate industry when I disagreed with them.”Wiener recently lost a major endorsement because of a dispute with a labor group. In San Francisco, both state Sen. Scott Wiener and his opponent, Jackie Fielder, have sworn off such donations. All they have is a dubious renter debt scheme. 2018 saw a historic surge of Democratic women running for office, many for the first time. In San Francisco, we have places like Hunters Point, where the median income is something like $35,000 a year, and then only half a mile away, the median income can be $120,000 a year.