SFYR has issued the following endorsements for the March 2024 election.
U.S. Congress District 11 (most of SF): Jason Zeng
U.S. Congress District 2 (Angel Island): Chris Coulombe
California State Senate District 11 (SF, Broadmoor, Colma, Daly City, plus part of South San Francisco): Yvette Corkrean
California Assembly District 19 (north SF and west SF): Arjun Sodhani
Republican County Central Committees:
For the RCCC race in San Francisco, the only slate that SFYR has endorsed is the CITIZENS FOR A BETTER SAN FRANCISCO (CBSF)
San Francisco RCCC AD-17 (most of east SF):
* Min Chang (CBSF)
* Bruce Lou (CBSF)
* Manuel Noris-Barrera (CBSF)
* Jason Zeng (SFYR Officer)
San Francisco RCCC AD-19 (north SF and west SF):
PLEASE NOTE: The Board could not come to a final decision on 13. We wound up endorsing 16. In the ballot for RCCC AD-19 you can only vote for 13. If you vote for more than 13 your vote will be discarded. So please only vote for 13 of the below.
* Rudy Asercion (CBSF)
* Joseph Coyne Bleckman (CBSF) (SFYR Officer)
* Jeremiah Boehner (SFYR Officer)
* Jason Patrick Clark (CBSF) (former SFYR Officer)
* Yvette Corkrean (CBSF)
* John Dennis (CBSF)
* Howard Epstein (CBSF)
* Clint Griess
* Rodney Leong (CBSF)(former SFYR Officer)
* Dorothy Leone
* Lisa Remmer (CBSF)
* Bob Rintel (CBSF)
* Monika Rothenbuhler (CBSF)
* Thomas Sleckman (CBSF)
* Jacob Spangler (CBSF) (SFYR Officer)
* Philip Wing (CBSF)
PLEASE NOTE: To reiterate what was said above, because this is important. The Board could not come to a final decision on 13. We wound up endorsing 16. In the ballot you can only vote for 13. If you vote for more than 13 your vote will be discarded. So please only vote for 13 of the above.
Napa County RCCC:
* Richard Maher (SFYR Officer)
Statewide Proposition:
Proposition 1 (Bonds for Substance Abuse Housing): Vote No
Local Propositions:
Prop. A (Housing Bonds): Vote No
Prop. B (Cop Tax): Vote No
Prop. C (Increasing Real Estate Tax Exemptions): Vote Yes
Prop. D (Ethics Bureaucracy): After a long discussion, we did not take a position. We like ethics. We don’t like bureaucracies that make it hard for small actors while the Corporate-wing of the Democrats easily jump through loopholes.
Prop. E (Expanding Police Powers): Vote Yes
Prop. F (Drug Test Those Getting Handouts): Vote Yes
Prop. G (Redirect School Funding to Algebra for the Smarter Kids): Vote Yes
Judges:
We did not take positions on the judge races. The Corporate Democrats are trying their hardest to get rid of two judges (one of whom was appointed by a Republican Governor, the other by Gavin Newsom) accusing them of allegedly not being strong enough on crime), but we didn’t feel like it was a race that made sense for us to weigh in on either way. The Republican judge (Begert) seems to be backed by a lot of Progressive money. His doorhangers are everywhere. The Democrat Judge (Thompson) doesn’t seem to have much of a campaign? Would have expected it to be the opposite, but maybe its just because Begert was around for a long time and Thompson is new. One of the groups pushing to remove the judges lists on their mailers the same address as the address on the mailers of one of the judges who they are trying to remove. Its a -very- strange race. Overall, something shady is going on, but we can’t tell which side is the shadier ones. Our abstention is not due to a lack of monitoring the race, but rather that we don’t want to lead you astray. We’d say do your own research, but good luck at finding non-biased sources…
U.S. Senate
We did not weigh in on either race. (One is to fill the last few weeks of Diane Feinstein’s 2019-2025 term, the other is to fill the 2025-2031 term. Same major candidates are in both.) We didn’t want to step on the statewide CYRF’s toes, but by the time it was confirmed they were not getting involved in the race it was too late for us to make a careful decision.
U.S. President (Republican nomination):
We didn’t want to step on our nationals (YRNF’s) toes, so we have not endorsed in this race.
Check back at this page as the election draws closer. We will likely make more endorsements. [2/14 Edit–At this point we are finished with endorsements.]
Due to the new realities of California universal mail-in ballots–When ballots arrive in early February is the de facto new “election day”. All political education is most effective if it is delivered a month earlier than it would have been under the old system: by the time the official election day in March rolls around, most voters will have already voted.
January Update: Added more candidate endorsements. As two candidates we endorsed prior to the close of the filing period did not wind up running, we removed from from the above list.
February Update: Added endorsements on Prop 1, local propositions, and gave some details on races we made no endorsements in. Done with endorsements! See you in the Summer when we start endorsing for the super long November ballot.
March Update: Added final extra endorsement made before the election.