After SF Progressives Win Big, a Shift in Dynamics at City Hall
London Breed might have breezed into her first full term as San Francisco mayor on Nov. 5, but Election Day was a loss for her moderate faction at City Hall — one that could stifle the mayor's agenda.
Breed's landslide victory against a field of little-known candidates was one measure of her popularity among voters and progressives' hesitance to challenge her campaign directly. Yet two of her strongest allies lost to more progressive candidates.
Pro-reform Deputy Public Defender Chesa Boudin defeated interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus — a former president of the San Francisco Police Commission, appointed by Breed after DA George Gascon resigned in October — and democratic socialist Dean Preston beat incumbent District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown, whom Breed hand-picked as her own replacement.
For progressives, the victories are twofold. They not only represent a rejection of Breed's relatively moderate ideology, but they also forge a clear path for more reformist policy changes — particularly at the Board of Supervisors.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11787512/after-sf-progressives-win-big-a-shift-in-dynamics-at-city-hall
