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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990370/diaspora-salvadorena-san-francisco-bukele\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting at a table in the center of her family’s pupusería in the Mission District, Aminta Calderón recalled her experience voting online for Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the country’s Feb. 4 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My daughter helped me to vote on my cellphone,” Calderón said in Spanish. She added that she took out her identification card issued by the Salvadoran government, and “she logged into the website and there, easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderón was excited to vote for the incumbent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of 322,000 Salvadorans living abroad who overwhelmingly voted for Bukele earlier this year. The incumbent’s controversial yet popular, tough-on-crime policies earned him an average of 96.5% of expatriate online and in-person votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans are the second-largest Latino population in San Francisco, and with concerns about rising crime throughout the city, the idea of voting for a more law-and-order-leaning candidate is a political force in the community. Bukele’s popularity, however, has also moved progressives in the area to mobilize against the Salvadoran president’s influence abroad and in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aminta Calderón poses for a photo inside of her family’s pupusería in the Mission District in San Francisco on June 3, 2024. Calderón voted online for Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the country’s Feb. 4 election. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calderón, 73, is firmly in the law-and-order camp. She recounted the danger she faced in El Salvador from both its civil war and growing gang violence. She decided to flee her country in 1995 after being shot at by men attempting to steal goods from her trucking business. She sold off what little she had and immigrated to San Francisco, where she’s operated various food businesses over her time in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her work allowed her to send remittances to her family in El Salvador so they could afford basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also stayed informed about violence in her home country and believed it would never change — until Bukele took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He eliminated all those massacres by putting many gang members in jail,” Calderón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bukele’s influence on U.S. Latino voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after Bukele was reelected, he visited the United States. He was a featured guest speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Feb. 22. As he walked on stage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFErQLbd8k\">the crowd erupted with cheers\u003c/a>. Some waved small Salvadoran flags while others chanted his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the speech, he urged those in attendance to “put up a fight” against those who are not aligned with the values of Bukele and his supporters. He also criticized the officials in major cities in the U.S. for accepting crime and promoting illegal drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morena Ramirez (right) and her husband and watch the 45th annual Carnaval San Francisco parade in San Francisco on May 26, 2024. Ramirez’s hat bears the logo of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s newly formed party, Nuevas Ideas, and a T-shirt with the president’s face. She voted for Bukele in the Feb. 4 election and plans to move back to El Salvador next year. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How many young people have you lost to the streets of Philadelphia or San Francisco to fentanyl,” Bukele asked. “The same thing was happening in El Salvador. In the span of less than a decade, gangs took control of the country and our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bukele said his administration arrested the gang members, ousted corrupt judges and removed corrupt prosecutors to cleanse El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Salvador’s homicide rate hit its peak in 2015, reaching 102 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnc.gob.sv/logros-y-memorias/\">Salvadoran government\u003c/a>. The homicide rate slowly declined, and in 2019, the year Bukele took office, the rate stood at 36 per 100,000. In his five-year tenure, the rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.fiscalia.gob.sv/estadisticas/\">dropped to 2.4\u003c/a> per 100,000, making the small country one of the safest in Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Salvadoran Americans watched Bukele’s first term from afar, cheering on the president for his accomplishment. Calderón is among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, this peace we have now endures,” Calderón said. “Because if [Bukele] stops governing, and another corrupt person like before arrives, they will release the criminals from jail, and it’s going to get worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bukele’s crackdown on violence has concerned human rights organizations. The Salvadoran president ordered a “\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/el-salvador-travel-advisory.html#:~:text=The%20State%20of%20Exception%20grants,Prison%20conditions%20are%20harsh\">state of exception\u003c/a>” in March 2022 — a move that suspended four basic rights in El Salvador’s constitution, including the right to a defense upon detention, freedom of assembly, privacy in digital communications without police interception and a time limit to being detained before a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bukele said it was a necessary move to fight violent crime. In those two years, as the homicide rate plummeted, the incarceration rate rose and is now one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/el-salvador/\">highest in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the police were created to bring law and order, let them bring law and order,” Bukele said in his CPAC speech. “If the judicial system was created to bring justice, let them bring justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s criminal justice shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been criticized as slowly shifting away from what’s been considered progressive criminal justice policies since voters ousted former District Attorney Chesa Boudin almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed appointed Brooke Jenkins to be San Francisco’s new district attorney in 2022. Jenkins vowed to prioritize safety in the city. She was reelected later that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally against the reelection of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Francisco on his Inauguration Day on June 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It would be easy to couch some of my expressions that you hear in sound bites as a return to tough-on-crime or a lock-em-up approach,” Jenkins said in her swearing-in speech. “For some, accountability may have to be prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors achieved convictions in 42% of cases during Jenkins’ first full year in office, an increase from a 36% conviction rate the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins also announced a joint opioid task force in late 2023 alongside Breed and Gov. Gavin Newsom. That’s part of an overall crackdown on drug sales in San Francisco. Bukele has waged his own campaign against drug trafficking in El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderón said the sale of fentanyl is destroying communities in the U.S., including San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot of crime here, and if there isn’t a strong hand,” she said, “the crime, rather than decreasing, goes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opioid task force, which aims to be fully operational by the end of this year, would treat San Francisco overdose deaths that can be traced back to a specific drug dealer as homicide cases. It’s a move being replicated by district attorneys in other California counties, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressenterprise.com/2023/11/03/murder-sentencing-for-fentanyl-dealer-is-first-in-riverside-county/\">Riverside\u003c/a>, to crack down on suspected fentanyl dealers and the increase in overdose deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s move toward more conservative policies to address crime and drug use gained voters’ endorsement in March when two initiatives Breed supported passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E will allow the city’s police department to deploy more public surveillance tools and reduce officer reporting requirements when there is a use of force. Proposition F will require welfare recipients suspected of using drugs to undergo testing and enter treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also supports a November ballot measure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982070/campaign-to-roll-back-prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-could-head-to-voters\">reform Proposition 47\u003c/a> by removing provisions to ensure non-violent crimes were prosecuted as misdemeanors rather than felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a fundamental shift in San Francisco’s political economy,” Roberto Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovato compared Bay Area politics to El Salvador’s current political strategy — creating short-term solutions to showcase on social media to gain support. It’s a strategy Lovato believes has worked on the Salvadoran-American population when voting for Bukele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of Salvadorans, you have the fascist culture that influenced our families,” Lovato said. “There are fewer and fewer alternatives for people to think outside of a fascist framework. So Bukele’s appeal should not surprise us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Salvadoran Americans in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lovato, 61, is the author of \u003cem>Unforgetting\u003c/em>, a book about intergenerational trauma between the United States and El Salvador. He’s documented the long-term effects that El Salvador’s violent history has had on immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Salvador was once considered one of the most violent in Latin America. In the 20th century, the country saw a rise of militarization within its government around the same time as its coffee exportation grew. Uprisings grew due to discontent with the government and were quickly squashed, most notably an event in 1932 named “La Matanza,” which means the massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Salvadoran flag flies during the 45th annual Carnaval San Francisco held in the Mission district in San Francisco on May 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To leave that violence, Lovato’s parents immigrated to the Mission District in the ’40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that it is one of, if not the most, consistently dictated societies,” Lovato said. “So if you want to understand our families, they’re families that have fled or been shaped by historic, deeply rooted fascism in the heart of El Salvador through the long-standing military dictatorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans continued to live in a state of militarization for decades. Then, a leftist guerilla movement named the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front grew as it promised to topple the government, a move that led to a 12-year civil war beginning in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war killed tens of thousands of people, including multiple massacres of women, children and civilians, with death tolls in the several hundreds. It pushed another wave of migration out of El Salvador, Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living in San Francisco, Lovato was surrounded by Central American activists who opposed El Salvador’s long-standing right-wing government. Many of them resided in the Mission District and held meetings to plan how to provide aid for revolutionaries throughout Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovato said he was among Salvadoran activists living in San Francisco who went to El Salvador to join the guerilla movement and fight in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a long history of revolutionary culture in the Mission,” Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Josselyn, a long-time member of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), attends a rally against the reelection of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Francisco on his Inauguration Day on June 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Josselyn, 76, is a member of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). The organization actively participated in activism in San Francisco during the Salvadoran civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josselyn recalled how he helped to send vehicles with donated supplies to El Salvador and marched through the streets in San Francisco, calling for the mayor to condemn U.S. involvement in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a big march at the Oakland Naval Supply Center over in Oakland,” Josselyn said. “We had 200 people blockading the gate, and the police came in and arrested everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Salvadoran civil war ended in 1992, the leftist guerilla movement, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, became a political party. The conservative party in power throughout the civil war, named the Nationalist Republican Alliance, remained an opposing force in Salvadoran politics throughout the years following the war. A populist movement grew from the idea that both parties had been corrupted, leading to the election of a newly formed third party led by Bukele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area chapter of CISPES has continued its activism throughout the war and post-war period. The group now focuses on protesting Bukele’s presidential actions. Their members have spoken to Salvadoran organizers, many of whom recounted stories of retaliation for speaking about concerns with Bukele’s administration. Some of their members have also observed Salvadoran elections for years to ensure a smooth democratic process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leti Morales, a member of CISPES, observed the election process in San Francisco at two polling stations in hotel conference rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first location I was in was the larger hotel. I think the final count was like 2,500,” Morales said. “At the second location, it was about like 1,300 people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Bay Area Salvadorans could vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Latinos in the Bay Area have been navigating politics much differently than in other parts of California, according to Marcela García-Castañon, an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University. She has surveyed different communities’ political sentiments for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aminta Calderón, 73, left, hands a large pot to her coworker at her family’s pupusería in the Mission District in San Francisco on June 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the questions we ask, for example, is ‘What are the most important topics facing your community?’ And in the Bay Area, you see a much higher propensity of people being really specific,” García-Castañon said. “Things like police brutality and or Black Lives Matter. They name the movements, they use the language.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her most recent survey was held in 2022. It showed that those who had been a victim of crime or gun violence were looking for the criminal justice system to be more responsive.[aside postID=news_11888162 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51414_005_Oakland_ItzelDiazandFamily_09092021-qut-1020x680.jpg']“Responsiveness did not not necessarily mean ‘lock-them-all-up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García-Castañon said the recent survey had an oversample of youth, many of whom came from immigrant families. Her survey also showed those respondents did not feel represented by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent polls have shown that Latinos, who have been long-standing left voters, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982586/whats-behind-the-rightward-shift-of-voters-of-color\">have been shifting to the right\u003c/a>. Lovato believes there is a silent majority of those with left-wing ideology, especially younger Salvadorans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think factors like peer pressure, the absolute domination of the media sphere and its effects in its society has a silencing effect,” Lovato said. “Do you really want to speak out when it feels like everybody online and offline is pro-Bukele?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District pupusería owner Aminta Calderón, on the other hand, said she could see herself voting for someone in San Francisco whose politics reflected Bukele’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This country is very tolerant, and many are taking advantage of that,” Calderón said. “If there wasn’t as much tolerance here, then these criminals would stop coming out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans are the second-largest Latino population in San Francisco, and with concerns about rising crime throughout the city, the idea of voting for a more law-and-order-leaning candidate is a political force in the community. Bukele’s popularity, however, has also moved progressives in the area to mobilize against the Salvadoran president’s influence abroad and in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aminta Calderón poses for a photo inside of her family’s pupusería in the Mission District in San Francisco on June 3, 2024. Calderón voted online for Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in the country’s Feb. 4 election. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Calderón, 73, is firmly in the law-and-order camp. She recounted the danger she faced in El Salvador from both its civil war and growing gang violence. She decided to flee her country in 1995 after being shot at by men attempting to steal goods from her trucking business. She sold off what little she had and immigrated to San Francisco, where she’s operated various food businesses over her time in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her work allowed her to send remittances to her family in El Salvador so they could afford basic necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also stayed informed about violence in her home country and believed it would never change — until Bukele took office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He eliminated all those massacres by putting many gang members in jail,” Calderón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bukele’s influence on U.S. Latino voters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after Bukele was reelected, he visited the United States. He was a featured guest speaker at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Feb. 22. As he walked on stage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFErQLbd8k\">the crowd erupted with cheers\u003c/a>. Some waved small Salvadoran flags while others chanted his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the speech, he urged those in attendance to “put up a fight” against those who are not aligned with the values of Bukele and his supporters. He also criticized the officials in major cities in the U.S. for accepting crime and promoting illegal drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-02-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morena Ramirez (right) and her husband and watch the 45th annual Carnaval San Francisco parade in San Francisco on May 26, 2024. Ramirez’s hat bears the logo of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s newly formed party, Nuevas Ideas, and a T-shirt with the president’s face. She voted for Bukele in the Feb. 4 election and plans to move back to El Salvador next year. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How many young people have you lost to the streets of Philadelphia or San Francisco to fentanyl,” Bukele asked. “The same thing was happening in El Salvador. In the span of less than a decade, gangs took control of the country and our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bukele said his administration arrested the gang members, ousted corrupt judges and removed corrupt prosecutors to cleanse El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Salvador’s homicide rate hit its peak in 2015, reaching 102 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnc.gob.sv/logros-y-memorias/\">Salvadoran government\u003c/a>. The homicide rate slowly declined, and in 2019, the year Bukele took office, the rate stood at 36 per 100,000. In his five-year tenure, the rate \u003ca href=\"https://www.fiscalia.gob.sv/estadisticas/\">dropped to 2.4\u003c/a> per 100,000, making the small country one of the safest in Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Salvadoran Americans watched Bukele’s first term from afar, cheering on the president for his accomplishment. Calderón is among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, this peace we have now endures,” Calderón said. “Because if [Bukele] stops governing, and another corrupt person like before arrives, they will release the criminals from jail, and it’s going to get worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bukele’s crackdown on violence has concerned human rights organizations. The Salvadoran president ordered a “\u003ca href=\"https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/el-salvador-travel-advisory.html#:~:text=The%20State%20of%20Exception%20grants,Prison%20conditions%20are%20harsh\">state of exception\u003c/a>” in March 2022 — a move that suspended four basic rights in El Salvador’s constitution, including the right to a defense upon detention, freedom of assembly, privacy in digital communications without police interception and a time limit to being detained before a trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bukele said it was a necessary move to fight violent crime. In those two years, as the homicide rate plummeted, the incarceration rate rose and is now one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/el-salvador/\">highest in the world\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the police were created to bring law and order, let them bring law and order,” Bukele said in his CPAC speech. “If the judicial system was created to bring justice, let them bring justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s criminal justice shift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been criticized as slowly shifting away from what’s been considered progressive criminal justice policies since voters ousted former District Attorney Chesa Boudin almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed appointed Brooke Jenkins to be San Francisco’s new district attorney in 2022. Jenkins vowed to prioritize safety in the city. She was reelected later that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-4_DUPE1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally against the reelection of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Francisco on his Inauguration Day on June 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It would be easy to couch some of my expressions that you hear in sound bites as a return to tough-on-crime or a lock-em-up approach,” Jenkins said in her swearing-in speech. “For some, accountability may have to be prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors achieved convictions in 42% of cases during Jenkins’ first full year in office, an increase from a 36% conviction rate the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins also announced a joint opioid task force in late 2023 alongside Breed and Gov. Gavin Newsom. That’s part of an overall crackdown on drug sales in San Francisco. Bukele has waged his own campaign against drug trafficking in El Salvador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderón said the sale of fentanyl is destroying communities in the U.S., including San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a lot of crime here, and if there isn’t a strong hand,” she said, “the crime, rather than decreasing, goes up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opioid task force, which aims to be fully operational by the end of this year, would treat San Francisco overdose deaths that can be traced back to a specific drug dealer as homicide cases. It’s a move being replicated by district attorneys in other California counties, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressenterprise.com/2023/11/03/murder-sentencing-for-fentanyl-dealer-is-first-in-riverside-county/\">Riverside\u003c/a>, to crack down on suspected fentanyl dealers and the increase in overdose deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s move toward more conservative policies to address crime and drug use gained voters’ endorsement in March when two initiatives Breed supported passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition E will allow the city’s police department to deploy more public surveillance tools and reduce officer reporting requirements when there is a use of force. Proposition F will require welfare recipients suspected of using drugs to undergo testing and enter treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also supports a November ballot measure to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982070/campaign-to-roll-back-prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-could-head-to-voters\">reform Proposition 47\u003c/a> by removing provisions to ensure non-violent crimes were prosecuted as misdemeanors rather than felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a fundamental shift in San Francisco’s political economy,” Roberto Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovato compared Bay Area politics to El Salvador’s current political strategy — creating short-term solutions to showcase on social media to gain support. It’s a strategy Lovato believes has worked on the Salvadoran-American population when voting for Bukele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the case of Salvadorans, you have the fascist culture that influenced our families,” Lovato said. “There are fewer and fewer alternatives for people to think outside of a fascist framework. So Bukele’s appeal should not surprise us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Salvadoran Americans in San Francisco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lovato, 61, is the author of \u003cem>Unforgetting\u003c/em>, a book about intergenerational trauma between the United States and El Salvador. He’s documented the long-term effects that El Salvador’s violent history has had on immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Salvador was once considered one of the most violent in Latin America. In the 20th century, the country saw a rise of militarization within its government around the same time as its coffee exportation grew. Uprisings grew due to discontent with the government and were quickly squashed, most notably an event in 1932 named “La Matanza,” which means the massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989091\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989091\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-DH-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Salvadoran flag flies during the 45th annual Carnaval San Francisco held in the Mission district in San Francisco on May 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Daniel Eduardo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To leave that violence, Lovato’s parents immigrated to the Mission District in the ’40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that it is one of, if not the most, consistently dictated societies,” Lovato said. “So if you want to understand our families, they’re families that have fled or been shaped by historic, deeply rooted fascism in the heart of El Salvador through the long-standing military dictatorship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salvadorans continued to live in a state of militarization for decades. Then, a leftist guerilla movement named the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front grew as it promised to topple the government, a move that led to a 12-year civil war beginning in 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The war killed tens of thousands of people, including multiple massacres of women, children and civilians, with death tolls in the several hundreds. It pushed another wave of migration out of El Salvador, Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While living in San Francisco, Lovato was surrounded by Central American activists who opposed El Salvador’s long-standing right-wing government. Many of them resided in the Mission District and held meetings to plan how to provide aid for revolutionaries throughout Latin America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovato said he was among Salvadoran activists living in San Francisco who went to El Salvador to join the guerilla movement and fight in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a long history of revolutionary culture in the Mission,” Lovato said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_SALVADORANVOTERS2-9-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Josselyn, a long-time member of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), attends a rally against the reelection of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in San Francisco on his Inauguration Day on June 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phil Josselyn, 76, is a member of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES). The organization actively participated in activism in San Francisco during the Salvadoran civil war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josselyn recalled how he helped to send vehicles with donated supplies to El Salvador and marched through the streets in San Francisco, calling for the mayor to condemn U.S. involvement in the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a big march at the Oakland Naval Supply Center over in Oakland,” Josselyn said. “We had 200 people blockading the gate, and the police came in and arrested everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Salvadoran civil war ended in 1992, the leftist guerilla movement, Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, became a political party. The conservative party in power throughout the civil war, named the Nationalist Republican Alliance, remained an opposing force in Salvadoran politics throughout the years following the war. A populist movement grew from the idea that both parties had been corrupted, leading to the election of a newly formed third party led by Bukele.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area chapter of CISPES has continued its activism throughout the war and post-war period. The group now focuses on protesting Bukele’s presidential actions. Their members have spoken to Salvadoran organizers, many of whom recounted stories of retaliation for speaking about concerns with Bukele’s administration. Some of their members have also observed Salvadoran elections for years to ensure a smooth democratic process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leti Morales, a member of CISPES, observed the election process in San Francisco at two polling stations in hotel conference rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first location I was in was the larger hotel. I think the final count was like 2,500,” Morales said. “At the second location, it was about like 1,300 people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Bay Area Salvadorans could vote\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Latinos in the Bay Area have been navigating politics much differently than in other parts of California, according to Marcela García-Castañon, an associate professor of political science at San Francisco State University. She has surveyed different communities’ political sentiments for almost a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240603_SALVADORANVOTERS-3-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aminta Calderón, 73, left, hands a large pot to her coworker at her family’s pupusería in the Mission District in San Francisco on June 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“One of the questions we ask, for example, is ‘What are the most important topics facing your community?’ And in the Bay Area, you see a much higher propensity of people being really specific,” García-Castañon said. “Things like police brutality and or Black Lives Matter. 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"content": "\u003cp>Daniel Lurie is rich, and he knows San Franciscans might have qualms about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and candidate for San Francisco mayor, Lurie leaned into his upbringing on Tuesday night at the first mayoral election forum this year. The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club hosted it at the First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center on Franklin Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said he had no choice in growing up wealthy. Instead, the choice he made was to create an anti-poverty nonprofit, Tipping Point, to try to help people using his resources, he told Jeffrey Kwong, president of the Milk Club and the forum’s moderator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every door that’s been open for me, I’ve tried to bring along as many people as possible,” Lurie told Kwong on stage. ”There’s no buying this election. This is why you’re not going to see a candidate work as hard as me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong bluntly told Lurie that people have a “visceral” response to seeing such a wealthy person enter the mayor’s race. Some fear his money could sway the election, Kwong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you read about me these days, the first thing you hear is ‘Levi’s,’” Lurie told the crowd. “I run toward that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the five mayoral candidates faced questions about their policies and personal histories from the club of progressive Democrats, Lurie wasn’t the only one to be grilled about his finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and mayor, denied his campaign had any unethical ties with independent political groups that wield significant spending power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Text messages revealed by Mission Local and the San Francisco Chronicle suggest coordination between independent political groups \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/mark-farrell-consultant-texts-that-togethersf-head-is-guiding-the-ship/\">TogetherSF\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/moderate-groups-influence-election-2024-19416954.php\">Neighbors for a Better San Francisco\u003c/a> — which have spent millions from wealthy tech funders on behalf of moderate Democratic causes — and Farrell’s campaign. Some coordination between such groups may flout state and local ethics laws. The Milk Club’s members pressed Farrell on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are all organizations that every single candidate, I’m sure, that is up on the stage is courting,” Farrell told Kwong on stage. “And they have independent boards, and I hope to earn their support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987395\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1000020306_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1000020306_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1000020306_qut-800x603.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1000020306_qut-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1000020306_qut-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/1000020306_qut-1536x1157.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco mayoral candidate Mark Farrell, right, speaks onstage with Jeffrey Kwong, president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, during a candidate forum hosted by the club on May 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED, Farrell denied that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984718/kanishka-cheng-the-most-influential-san-franciscan-youve-never-heard-of\">Kanishka Cheng, TogetherSF Action’s CEO\u003c/a>, and her husband Jay Cheng, head of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, unethically coordinated with his campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kanishka was someone who used to work for me in City Hall. She’s done amazing things running her organization inside of City Hall, and she’s a friend, and that’s it,” Farrell said after the event. When pressed to answer directly whether either of the Chengs coordinated with his campaign, he said “no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> The forum gave San Franciscans their first public glimpse into the policies and character of the top contenders in the mayor’s race: Lurie, Farrell, Mayor London Breed, Supervisor Ahsha Safai and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong interviewed each candidate for 30 minutes in front of roughly 200 attendees, with no debate between candidates. The forum was announced after San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986393/first-sf-mayoral-debate-continues-to-crumble-as-third-candidate-may-drop-out\">first planned mayoral debate began to crumble\u003c/a> last week over the alleged ties between Farrell’s campaign and political advocacy organizations. That debate would have been hosted by TogetherSF Action until Breed and Peskin questioned its independence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a novel election, as incumbent mayors are not usually challenged. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mayor-london-breed-election-18678601.php\">poll conducted for the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in February showed that 71% of San Franciscans did not approve of Breed’s job performance as mayor, a result mirrored in multiple polls, revealing Breed to be vulnerable to challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-mayors-race\"]\u003cstrong>Why it matters:\u003c/strong> Lurie’s opponents have publicly mocked \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/billionaire-mom-gives-1m-to-son-s-sf-mayoral-race-18638051.php\">a billboard funded by his mother, Mimi Haas\u003c/a>, touting her $1 million donation to a group supporting her son’s candidacy. The candidates have all taken turns alleging Lurie is unequipped to be mayor because he’s never held public office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s messaging during the forum previewed what he may say on the campaign trail to rebut those claims. Jim Ross, a political consultant who ran Gov. Gavin Newsom’s successful 2003 campaign for mayor, said every campaign has a question to answer, almost like a central thesis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s obvious question he has to answer is basically, ‘Is being rich enough of a qualification to be mayor?’” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Farrell, ethics laws bar certain types of cooperation between such groups. That firewall forms the backbone of campaign finance law that allows independent political groups to fundraise in any amount to support multiple candidates, as opposed to candidate-controlled campaigns, which can only accept a maximum donation of $500.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross said TogetherSF mishandled its bad press, saying that a statement backing Farrell might have eased off some of the scrutiny the group has come under.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because they kind of are trying to seem neutral or hide it and come off as independent, it’s making it a story,” Ross said. “It’s not the scandal, it’s the cover-up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Other candidates in the hot seat:\u003c/strong> Lurie and Farrell weren’t the only ones questioned on controversial topics by Kwong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong told Breed that progressive Democrats bristle at her support for police and her relatively silent treatment around the need for police reform after the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer. Breed disagreed with Kwong’s characterization but ultimately doubled down on supporting police and public safety. Audience members shouted slogans against the police department during the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are hollering ‘defund the police,’” Breed said, “but let something happen to you, and you’re calling 911 and wondering why the police didn’t get there. I get that people have issues and concerns, and they’re not perfect, but I’ve worked really hard to build those bridges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said Peskin’s critics have characterized him as a NIMBY and dislike that he blocks housing in his home neighborhood, North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can grow San Francisco without destroying our neighborhoods,” Peskin said, who cited his work to build 10,000 housing units in the Mission, South of Market and Central Waterfront \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979849/peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing\">as part of the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan\u003c/a>, among other efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safai was challenged on his progressive bonafides. He said he’s the only candidate with a long history in the labor movement, working with a local janitors’ union for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching:\u003c/strong> Peskin, Lurie, Farrell and Safai all had critical words for Breed, but due to the format, Breed had no opportunity to rebut them. Breed is a skilled orator; it’ll be fascinating to watch the first debate where Breed and her challengers can engage in dialogue together — even if it’s not yet certain when that will be.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Daniel Lurie could become the third candidate to pull out of San Francisco’s first mayoral debate, saying the event’s planning has become increasingly disorganized as the group hosting it comes under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The May 20 debate was organized by political advocacy group TogetherSF Action, which faces questions over its ties to former mayor and Supervisor Mark Farrell, another candidate in November’s mayoral election. Mayor London Breed originally agreed to participate \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/mayor-breed-withdraws-from-togethersf-debate-citing-chaos-farrell-ties/\">but changed her mind on Tuesday\u003c/a>. 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However, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/mark-farrell-consultant-texts-that-togethersf-head-is-guiding-the-ship/\">reporting from Mission Local\u003c/a> last week revealed text messages from a political consultant for Farrell to an unknown second party, in which the consultant said that TogetherSF Action CEO Kanishka Cheng is “guiding the ship” for Farrell’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheng did not return requests for comment by press time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986162,forum_2010101905375,news_11974740\"]Both Breed and Peskin shared concerns with KQED that Cheng would skew the debate to favor Farrell, whom she previously worked for as a legislative aide. Both Breed’s and Peskin’s campaigns said TogetherSF promised them only 20 tickets in a venue that seats 1,000, raising red flags over who would fill those other seats and whether they would be Farrell supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the collusion between the Farrell campaign and TogetherSF’s leadership gave the impression that Mark Farrell would clearly benefit much more from participating in this debate than all the other candidates on the stage,” said Joe Arellano, Breed’s campaign spokesperson. “Our campaign was not confident that TogetherSF’s leader, an individual recently mentioned as ‘guiding the ship’ for the Farrell campaign, could be trusted to organize a fair and balanced debate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Stearns, a campaign consultant working on Peskin’s campaign, said TogetherSF staffers helped organize a small protest outside Peskin’s kickoff speech in Portsmouth Square last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“TogetherSF is a partisan organization masquerading as nonpartisan,” Stearns said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blistering critique from two mayoral campaigns of San Francisco’s topmost officials is a reputational hit to TogetherSF, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/togethersf-donors-want-to-empower-mayor-cut-commissions/article_5a108516-eb00-11ee-b303-4b939252db35.html\">a growing power player in city politics\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin launched his mayoral campaign at Portsmouth Square in Chinatown Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here today because we all love San Francisco, and we know our city is struggling,” Peskin told the hundreds of supporters. “We are a city in need of recovery. And recovery is something I know a little something about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin spoke of his history of alcoholism in his speech. He also outlined his policy positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981946 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-012-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']He will prioritize building affordable apartments over market rate developments. To tackle the fentanyl crisis, he wants to focus on arresting drug dealers instead of criminalizing people suffering from addiction. He also pledged to create enough homeless shelters to get people off the streets. To stem City Hall corruption, he wants to create an inspector general position who can investigate government officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen community leaders and politicians were seated behind Peskin, including former Mayor Art Agnos, drag queen Juanita MORE!, former Congressman John Burton and Community Tenants Association President Wing Hoo Leung, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A protest organized by Mark Farrell, another mayoral candidate, rallied outside of Peskin’s event. Farrell was not present. About 40 people blew whistles and held signs that read “ANYone but AARON,” “Pandering Peskin needs to go” and “Pesky Peskin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The other candidates — Mayor London Breed, philanthropist Daniel Lurie and Farrell — have each tried to show they’re tough on crime. In early March, voters approved a Breed-backed ballot measure that will require some welfare recipients to be screened for drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982152\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982152\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An older lady sits with people on either side and supporters of Aaron Peskin behind her waving signs.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_9658-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsipora Peskin (center left), 84, the mother of Aaron Peskin, smiles as she is recognized by her son during a rally to announce his campaign for mayor of San Francisco in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last month Farrell, who previously served as interim mayor, announced that he would declare a fentanyl state of emergency if elected. He would also request more California Army National Guard soldiers be deployed in the Tenderloin and South of Market. Lurie announced a similar declaration around fentanyl the day before Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, a progressive Democrat, aims to shift the tone of the race away from the rightward rhetoric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin\"]‘We’re here today because we all love San Francisco, and we know our city is struggling. We are a city in need of recovery.’[/pullquote]Peskin said people have been whipped into a frenzy about crime in a deliberate attempt to paint San Francisco as lawless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(It’s) an effort to make people feel afraid for their own political gain,” he said. “We’ve seen an administration try to solve crime by press releases, instead of public policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, who helped create unarmed ambassador programs in Chinatown, said he wants to replicate the effort citywide. He has also called for more foot patrols by San Francisco Police Department officers who speak Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The opposing view\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>William Brega, who stood on the sidewalk outside Portsmouth Square, was surrounded by people smacking protest signs with fly swatters and chanting “swat Aaron!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_6026-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters rally against mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin near a kickoff event for his campaign in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brega said Peskin put the public at risk by opposing the recall of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin in 2022. Boudin was criticized for not being tough on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t stand with the Asian community,” said Brega, who worked on the unsuccessful judicial campaign of Assistant District Attorney Jean Mygunjin Roland in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brega also said Peskin’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979849/peskins-rumored-mayor-run-has-same-strength-and-weakness-housing\">record of blocking housing projects is bad for San Francisco\u003c/a>. Brega, 23, lives with his grandparents in the city and wishes to move out. He said San Francisco will only become affordable if officials allow enough housing to be built to lower rent prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin shot back at his housing critics in his speech, saying the city should not embrace Reaganomics. He said “luxury housing” would not eventually “trickle down” to one day become affordable to San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What we are watching\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s campaign depends on support from a coalition of groups including progressives, west side homeowners and the Chinese community. His opponents have been making inroads with Chinese business and community groups for months, concerning some of Peskin’s allies who wanted him to announce his mayoral run sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982154\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/DSC_5878-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin waves to crowd gathered at a rally to announce his campaign for mayor of San Francisco in Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on April 6, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Peskin’s rally, hundreds of attendees were from the Asian community and chanted in Cantonese. 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Lurie, a philanthropist, announced a similar declaration the day before Farrell. Lurie has been endorsed by former Mayor Frank Jordan, the chief of the San Francisco Police Department who rode a wave of anti-gay sentiment into office in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin has long been an SFPD ally. He’s voted for budget increases, and frequently speaks at events honoring officers in Chinatown. He told KQED he plans to help the police’s hiring pipeline by building better bridges with schools and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also spoke to the need for the department to meet the reform mandates of the U.S. Department of Justice. He pushed back against the narrative that San Francisco is lawless, calling the narrative opportunistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is also the perception of crime that has been magnified by a set of billionaires, who spent literally tens of millions of dollars telling us that we are not safe,” Peskin said. “That does not in any way alleviate our primary responsibility to make sure that people are safe and to make sure that people feel safe. But I think it’s time to push back against that [narrative].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ross, a campaign consultant who ran Gov. 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Peskin supports expanded rent control protections, low-income subsidies for seniors and families, and increased access to child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his speech Saturday, Peskin will allude to his own struggles with alcoholism, which were revealed during the 2015 race against Supervisor Julie Christensen, who was appointed by the late Mayor Ed Lee. An advertisement accused Peskin of drunkenly calling city staffers to berate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said he’s been in recovery for three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no doubt that alcohol made me less pleasant,” he said. “I still work long hours. I still talk to people late at night. But I have to say, I’m very grateful for the people who got me sobered up, who got me into recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/240403-aaronpeskin-005-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"a row of campaign pins\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-AARONPESKIN-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pins from different campaigns over the years in Peskin’s office. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some San Francisco residents and politicians, including Breed, have been critical of Peskin’s positions on housing. GrowSF, a political group funded by tech billionaires who aim to reshape San Francisco, wants the city to prioritize building market-rate developments without the restrictions it claims slows production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, who has authored legislation to make it easier to build housing across the state, assailed what he called Peskin’s obstruction, ticking off neighborhoods — Nob Hill, Treasure Island, Stevenson Street — Peskin opposed developments in. He said Peskin has frequently used environmental laws and rezoning efforts to stall construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron Peskin as mayor would be unbelievably bad for San Francisco,” Wiener said. “He has spent his entire career making it harder and harder to build more housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980910/sf-supervisors-reject-breeds-veto-of-peskins-housing-density-law\">voted to overturn Breed’s veto of Peskin’s legislation limiting housing heights\u003c/a> in the Jackson Square Historic District and nearby neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin defended his record, noting that he authored Proposition A, the $300 million housing bond voters approved in March. He also put forward housing bonds in 2015 and 2019. Originally from Berkeley, Peskin has been elected to represent North Beach, Chinatown and Fisherman’s Wharf in 2000, 2004, 2015, 2016 and 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a shelf by his desk, a framed photo depicts Peskin arm-in-arm with then-Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who blazed trails for gay politicians in the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Peskin’s strongest assets is that people know him. On Wednesday, people popped out of Handcraft Gifts on Grant Avenue and Sandy’s Lucky Bamboo and Florist on Jackson Street to say hello and shake his hand as he walked by. Peskin’s challenge will be translating neighborhood enthusiasm to a citywide race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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