{"id":45970,"date":"2026-01-09T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45970"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:12:35","slug":"the-three-candidates-vying-for-nancy-pelosis-seat-face-off-on-the-same-stage-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/the-three-candidates-vying-for-nancy-pelosis-seat-face-off-on-the-same-stage-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Candidates Vying for Nancy Pelosi\u2019s Seat Face Off on the Same Stage for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

8 January 2026\/SF Politics<\/a>\/Joe Kukura<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The question was \u201cIs Israel committing genocide in Gaza?\u201d and Chan and Chakrabarti immediately held up their Yes signs. Scott Wiener sat there frozen and did not move, let alone indicate Yes or No.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat legitimately up for grabs for the first time in nearly 40 years, the three challengers to succeed her \u2014 Scott Wiener, Connie Chan, and Saikat Chakrabarti \u2014 duked it out at a candidate forum Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has been an absolutely groundbreaking and legendary legislator<\/a>, but she\u2019s been the only congressional representative San Francisco has seen since freaking 1987. <\/em>And at 85 years old, it’s probably time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Pelosi has announced she\u2019s going to retire soon<\/a>, which finally opens up her seat for a new representative. And \u201cbarring any lunacy\u201d (in the words of Mission Local\u2019s Joe Eskenazi), Pelosi\u2019s seat will be won in November either by state Senator Scott Wiener<\/a>, D1 SF Supervisor Connie Chan<\/a>, or former tech executive and AOC\/Bernie staffer Saikat Chakrabarti<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission Local\u2019s Joe Eskenazi made that assessment Wednesday night when the three candidates faced off on the same stage for the first time at UC Law San Francisco. It was a \u201ccandidates forum\u201d (technically not a debate) sponsored by the California Working Families Party, Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, and the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club. And you can watch the entire two-hour affair below, though we\u2019ve picked out the good parts to give you a Cliffs Notes version of what happened Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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