San Francisco overwhelmingly supported Prop 36 – a tough-on-crime measure meant to reform Prop 47. Earlier this year, they approved drug testing for benefits recipients and expanded police policies.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins was soundly re-elected. And with outgoing Supervisors Aaron Peskin, the board will lose at least one progressive. Much has been said of San Francisco’s shift to the center in recent years and it may well have continued last night.
“We still have a lot of ballots to count so we don’t know exactly how things are going to go,” said Sachin Agarwal, Director of GrowSF. “But what we really hope to see in a potentially a new era in San Francisco politics is more collaboration between people.”
Agarwal is thinking big, and why not? His GrowSF group launched barely four years ago, and since then they have successfully campaigned to recall three progressive school board members and a progressive district attorney. Earlier this year they won a raft of centrist city reforms at the ballot box, and now, it appears they will get one of their moderate choices for mayor and still more moderates on the board of supervisors.