The Emerging Coalitions in the Mayor's Race
Thinking in terms of coalitions rather than labels is a more useful way to understand the San Francisco mayoral election.
According to the shorthand that is too frequently used to describe San Francisco’s mayoral election, Aaron Peskin is the progressive candidate, while Mark Farrell, Mayor London Breed and Daniel Lurie are all moderates and Asha Safai is somewhere in the middle. There is some truth to this frame. Peskin has the strongest progressive credentials and the ot…
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