Amy Farah Weiss
Amy Farah Weiss ran in a special election for Mayor of San Francisco in California. Weiss lost in the special general election on June 5, 2018.
Weiss was a 2015 candidate for mayor of San Francisco, California. The general election took place on November 3, 2015. Amy Farah Weiss lost the general election on November 3, 2015.
Biography
Weiss earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of California-Santa Cruz in 1999. She later received an M.A. in organizational development and training at San Francisco State University in 2010. Weiss has worked as an education coordinator at Santa Cruz AIDS Project, a training consultant with the Progress Foundation and an outreach consultant with Compassionate Health Options. She became the founder and director of Neighbors Developing Divisadero, a community group focused on development of the Divasedero Corridor, in December 2011.[1]
Elections
2018
General election
Special general election for Mayor of San Francisco
The following candidates ran in the special general election for Mayor of San Francisco on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | London Breed (Nonpartisan) | 36.6 | 91,918 |
 | Mark Leno (Nonpartisan) | 24.4 | 61,276 | |
 | Jane Kim (Nonpartisan) | 24.2 | 60,644 | |
 | Angela Alioto (Nonpartisan) | 7.0 | 17,447 | |
 | Ellen Lee Zhou (Nonpartisan) | 3.8 | 9,521 | |
 | Richie Greenberg (Nonpartisan) | 2.8 | 7,016 | |
 | Amy Farah Weiss (Nonpartisan) | 0.7 | 1,661 | |
 | Michelle Bravo (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 890 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 495 | ||
| Total votes: 250,868 | |||
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Election overview
London Breed won the special mayoral election in San Francisco with 36.6 percent of the vote.
The election was called after former Mayor Ed Lee died of a heart attack on December 12, 2017.[2] Eight candidates filed for the seat.
Breed, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors president, was initially appointed as acting mayor after Lee passed away. The board replaced her with fellow supervisor Mark Farrell a month later, citing the desire for an interim mayor who was not also running for the office.[3] Breed collected endorsements from state Sen. Scott Wiener (D), State Assemblyman David Chiu (D), the San Francisco Firefighter's Union, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She led the candidates in funds raised, reporting $1.33 million as of May 19. She has also led in three separate polls, with her highest support at 33 percent. Breed's campaigning focused on transportation, education, and homelessness.[4]
District 6 Supervisor and attorney Jane Kim was another top contender, receiving the endorsements of the San Francisco Democratic Party Central Committee, the San Francisco Democratic Party, and the Bernie Sanders-linked group Our Revolution. She reported $494,000 in contributions, which was the second-highest number after Breed's. Kim described herself as a progressive and focused her campaign on improving city services, helping the homeless, and income inequality.[5]
Former supervisor, state assemblyman, and state Sen. Mark Leno also emerged as a frontrunner, collecting endorsements from four San Francisco Board of Supervisors members, Equality California, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Community Tenants Association. He reported $493,000 in funds raised as of May 19 and led in two polls, with his highest support at 29%. Leno focused on ending homelessness by 2020, cleaner streets, reducing crime, and affordable housing.[6]
2015
The city of San Francisco, California, held elections for mayor and board of supervisors on November 3, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was June 9, 2015.[7] In the mayoral race, incumbent Edwin M. Lee defeated Kent Graham, Francisco Herrera, Reed Martin, Stuart Schuffman and Amy Farah Weiss.[8]
| Mayor of San Francisco General Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 Edwin M. Lee Incumbent |
55.3% | 105,298 | |
| Francisco Herrera | 15% | 28,638 | |
| Amy Farah Weiss | 12.1% | 23,099 | |
| Stuart Schuffman | 9.6% | 18,211 | |
| Kent Graham | 4.6% | 8,775 | |
| Reed Martin | 2.4% | 4,612 | |
| Write-in votes | 0.9% | 1,764 | |
| Total Votes | 184,021 | ||
| Source: City & County of San Francisco, "November 3, 2015 Official Election Results," accessed November 23, 2015 | |||
Campaign themes
2015
Weiss' website highlighted the following campaign themes:
| “ |
1. As Mayor, I will treat the eviction, displacement, and housing affordability crisis like a true crisis. I will strengthen protections for tenants from profit-driven displacement as quickly as possible, immediately start designing and implementing cost-effective solutions to provide interim-housing support for displaced and houseless neighbors, and work on identifying and developing low-risk investment opportunities that will enable San Francisco to increase housing affordability on both public land and in neighborhoods. 2. As Mayor, I will support the development of community-serving, sustainable, and pro-worker economic opportunities that link our unemployed/underemployed residents and graduates of public education institutions (i.e. SFUSD, CCSF, SF State, and UC Hastings) with pathways to prosperity. I have a particular interest in San Francisco becoming a national leader in industries that support a balanced climate, such as alternatives to fossil fuels in both energy production and product manufacturing. 3. As a Mayoral candidate, I support the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement to make the issue of institutionalized support of black lives a key issue in all current political races. In the 1963 film “Take This Hammer”, the author James Baldwin visited the Fillmore/Western Addition and Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhoods and highlighted the institutionalized racism and lack of economic opportunities faced by African-American neighbors. I’d like to say that we’ve made progress since 1963, but the African American population has declined to under 6% while over 50% of arrests are made within this small population, and we are in the same position of needing more educational support and economic opportunities to create pathways to prosperity rather than pipelines to prison for our African American youth. Along these lines, I have been advocating for the development of cost-effective and evidence-based programs that reduce crime and increase neighborhood well-being in alignment with the Community Peace Plan (a violence prevention plan that was developed by the African American Community Police Relations Board and Latino & Asian Pacific Islander Coalition starting in 2002). The Mayoral election is a time for us to explore strategic and innovative approaches to help us achieve the safety outcomes that are important to our neighborhoods and city. As an example, we could use a public innovation funding approach to encourage the development of neighborhood education, training, and activity programs in crisis neighborhoods that could be evaluated for their impact on crime statistics and cost for criminal justices resources. Another idea is to develop a “Stewards of Peace” program that provides paid training and employment opportunities for neighbors in crisis neighborhoods to gain and use skills in unarmed physical and verbal de-escalation skills and mental-health support. It's important to say no to rising inequity and profit-driven displacement of our neighbors and culture, but since we live in a democracy we are also tasked with finding our strategic YES. [9] |
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| —Amy Farah Weiss' campaign website, (2015), [10] | ||
See also
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External links
- Mayor of San Francisco
- City of San Francisco - Official Candidate List
- 2015 campaign website
- Amy Farah Weiss on Facebook
Footnotes
- ↑ Think Twice. Vote Weiss, "Resume," accessed September 3, 2015
- ↑ SF Gate, "San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee dead at 65," December 12, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Supervisor Mark Farrell named interim San Francisco mayor," January 24, 2018
- ↑ London Breed 2018 campaign website, "Platforms," accessed May 27, 2018
- ↑ Jane Kim 2018 campaign website, "Issues," accessed May 27, 2018
- ↑ Mark Leno 2018 campaign website, "Issues," accessed May 27, 2018
- ↑ City of San Francisco, "Calendar for November 3, 2015, Municipal Elections," accessed February 12, 2015
- ↑ City of San Francisco, "Future Elections," accessed September 19, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Think Twice. Vote Weiss, "Platform," accessed September 3, 2015
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