{"id":34117,"date":"2024-06-01T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34117"},"modified":"2024-06-01T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T19:14:57","slug":"weve-finally-got-a-real-sf-mayoral-debate-happening-on-june-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/weve-finally-got-a-real-sf-mayoral-debate-happening-on-june-17\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>31 MAY 2024\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/politics\/\">SF POLITICS<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/author\/joe-kukura\/\">JOE KUKURA<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we\u2019ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There should have already been two debates in this year&#8217;s San Francisco mayor\u2019s race, but there have been zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first had been scheduled for May 20, and was to be hosted by the political action committee Together SF Action, who brought you those bizarro&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2023\/05\/16\/big-money-tech-group-launches-bizarre-ad-campaign-making-sarcastic-jokes-about-fentanyl-crisis\/\">\u201cThat\u2019s Fentalife!\u201d ads<\/a>. But there\u2019s so much overlap between Together SF Action&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2024\/05\/mark-farrell-consultant-texts-that-togethersf-head-is-guiding-the-ship\/\">and the Mark Farrell campaign<\/a>&nbsp;that both Mayor London Breed and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin ditched that debate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/05\/14\/london-breed-aaron-peskin-beg-off-from-monday-mayoral-candidate-debate-by-togethersf-will-host-their-own-thing\/\">to have their own competing debate<\/a>&nbsp;the same night. Amidst all the accusations and chaos,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/05\/16\/day-around-the-bay-both-of-mondays-scheduled-sf-mayoral-debates-have-now-crashed-and-burned\/\">both debates were canceled<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Get ready San Francisco! For the first time in six years, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFDemocrats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SFDemocrats<\/a> are hosting a mayoral debate.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7THOdfcUr\">https:\/\/t.co\/a7THOdfcUr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ExceUufsyP\">pic.twitter.com\/ExceUufsyP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SF Democratic Party (@SFDemocrats) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFDemocrats\/status\/1796632516767715726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Well, we are finally getting a real debate with all five candidates on the same stage. The San Francisco Democratic Party announced Friday that they\u2019ve&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfdemocrats.org\/debate\">scheduled a mayoral debate<\/a>&nbsp;for Monday, June 17 at 7:30 pm. The debate will be held at the UC Law San Francisco building, and will have all five major candidates: Breed, Peskin, Farrell, plus Supervisor Ahsha Safai and Daniel Lurie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate will be moderated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/author\/terisa-estacio\/\">KRON4\u2019s Terisa Estacio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You figure a debate hosted by the San Francisco Democratic Party would present a level playing field that a Together SF Action debate could not provide. But under the party\u2019s new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/03\/06\/election-proved-a-very-good-night-for-sf-moderates\/\">moderate-controlled governing board<\/a>, could the fix be in against the progressive candidates (i.e. Peskin)? &nbsp;One member of that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/03\/05\/confusing-as-heck-dccc-election-today-features-51-candidates-most-of-whom-you-havent-heard-of\/\">DCCC governing board<\/a>&nbsp;is literally Mark Farrell\u2019s campaign manager, Jade Tu. And according to the Bay Area Reporter, six other members of that board have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebar.com\/story.php?ch=news&amp;id=332212\">already endorsed London Breed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SF Democratic Party seems determined to avoid the appearance of any bias, and formed a Mayoral Debate Committee to structure the thing as fairly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Debate Committee established the criteria and rules to govern the debate, which will be 90 minutes in length and include individual statements from candidates in addition to questions posed by the debate moderator on various issues of importance to San Francisco voters,\u201d they said in a press release. \u201cEach participating campaign will be allowed to submit up to five questions for consideration by the Debate Committee for inclusion in the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The debate is free to attend, but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/san-francisco-democratic-party-mayoral-debate-tickets-916638028017?aff=website\">does require an RSVP<\/a>. It\u2019s on Monday, June 17 at 7:30 pm. at the UC Law San Francisco building (200 McAllister Street). It will also be livestreamed to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SFDemocrats\">San Francisco Democratic Party\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/watch-kron4-news-online\/\">KRON4\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/05\/07\/breed-threatens-to-back-out-of-first-mayoral-debate-questions-whether-it-might-be-rigged-by-organizer\/\">Breed Threatens to Back Out of First Mayoral Debate, Questions Whether It Might Be Rigged by Organizer [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/sfdemocrats.org\/\"><em>SFDemocrats.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/05\/31\/weve-finally-got-a-real-sf-mayoral-debate-happening-on-june-17\/\">https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/05\/31\/weve-finally-got-a-real-sf-mayoral-debate-happening-on-june-17\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 MAY 2024\/SF POLITICS\/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we\u2019ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco. There should have already been two debates in this year&#8217;s San Francisco&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/weve-finally-got-a-real-sf-mayoral-debate-happening-on-june-17\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34118,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34117\/revisions\/34118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}