Greens and Dems to Runoff for SF Mayor

[eablair3]

Just heard on the radio (KGO) the vote totals for SF Mayor:

Almost all the precincts are reporting and the leader is Gavin Newsom, a Dem, with 40 percent of the vote. In second is the Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez with 20 percent. Since no candidate received more than 50 percent, there will be a runoff between these two top candidates to be the Mayor of San Francisco.

More advancement in the electoral process for the Greens.

[durutti]

1. AWESOME

Sorry, but I hope the Greens win it.

[Hep]

2. If you're a green

this is the time to vote that way.

[Some Moran]

3. Won't happen...

The Right (all 15% of San Francisco) will vote en masse for the Democratic candidate, much like the Left rallied behind Chirac last year in France.

[Some Moran]

4. I stand corrected...

His Pukeness only won 2.85% of the vote...muahaha

[eablair3]

6. election results are here

http://www.sfgov.org/site/election_index.asp?id=19601

i'm not sure who "his pukeness" is?

[AP]

7. Me too. The Democrat is conservative. He's funded by the Hearst family

(right?) and had an initiative on the ballot to make panhandling illegal in certain places in the city.

He's also a young, multi-millionaire developer.

[eablair3]

8. my understanding is that he's gotten a lot of contributions by big corps

big business seems to be behind Newsom. The corporate hotels and the developers, etc. I believe he was the or a major supporter of the "care not cash" thing to take away the funds to the homeless and provide them "care" whatever that supposedly meant. I guess in SF the corporate business establishment knows to get behind a Dem as as Repuke has no chance.

Maybe the some of the more liberal voters who went for Angela Alioto (16%) and Tom Ammiano (10-11%)will go for the Green candidate, Matt Gonzalez in the runoff?

Anyone know the latest with the implementation of the IRV that SF approved earlier this year?

[proud patriot]

5. Got to love the run off voting process

:hi;