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From left: Ahsha Safai, Mark Farrell, Daniel Lurie, Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin take part in a mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco on June 12. Every week brings new headlines raising concerns about government and campaign ethics in San Francisco, but what sway — if any — these stories have on The City’s voters remains to be seen.
‘ scandals and financial misdeeds than they did decades ago, and are now more likely to rally around their favorite candidate than ditch them by the wayside. “In a polarized world where people are committed to their partisan teams and the media environment is so diffuse and specific to people’s needs, scandals simply can’t matter as much as they used to,” University of Houston Professor of Political Science Brandon Rottinghaus told The Examiner.over The City’s management of the Dream Keeper Initiative, a $120 million dollar program created in 2020 to invest in San Francisco’s Black community.leaders for distributing a campaign mailer that might have misled voters into believing he received its official endorsement of his mayoral campaign. On Thursday, the San Francisco Standard reported that Breed now alleges that Farrell requested that her office help expedite permits for the remodel of his personal home, anDaniel Lurie, the founder of anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point and heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, has pilloried his opponents as “City Hall insiders” and has connected his recent rise in the polls to the torrent of scandals enveloping Farrell and Breed. “Daniel has surged to the front of this race because San Franciscans are desperate to turn the page on years of corruption and failure,” said Tyler Law, Lurie’s campaign consultant, in a statement this week. Daniel Lurie during the mayoral debate at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. Tales of alleged transgressions are mounting and receive nearly daily news coverage, but it’s unclear how much voters care. Rottinghaus has written an upcoming book about the topic. At the local level, people are less attentive to what’s happening in their political communities. “When it’s like a local race, or it’s a race that’s not a national race, then you see people will only pay attention to it to the extent to which it is an issue in the community,” Rottinghaus said.that voters have become less likely to punish candidates for scandals since 1994. In a 2020 analysis, researchers also found that the impact of scandals is not cumulative — while initial scandals hurt candidates, subsequent ones“When there’s accusation after accusation, it becomes taxing on the voter to keep all that separate,” Steven Nawara, a Lewis University political science professor and co-author of the 2020 study, told The Examiner. “So the sense that the politician might be crooked just kind of gets baked into their overall evaluation.” It’s better to not experience scandals at all, Nawara noted, but once candidates have endured one, there’s little to indicate they’ll suffer from another.Partisanship also plays a significant role in the response to political scandals. San Francisco has nonpartisan mayoral elections, but researchers find that increasing polarization leads voters to circle the wagons in partisan races.On the other hand, the lack of party identifiers in San Francisco elections could leave voters to make judgments about candidates based on their personal traits. “In local elections — even in a big city like San Francisco — voters need more motivation to go to the polls than just party, particularly if we’re talking about nonpartisan elections, voters will decide to vote for based upon the character, the ethical virtues declared by the candidate,” said John Pelissero, director of government ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Incumbents like Breed are in a unique position. They operate under heightened scrutiny, but they also enjoy preexisting bases of support and have platforms with which to change the subject, such as by introducing new policies, according to Rottinghaus. With six years in office and two terms on the Board of Supervisors before that, Breed has a long record in the public eye that opponents can pick apart.Mayor London Breed speaks about the importance of reproductive rights at a rally at the Panhandle in San Francisco on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. On Monday, Breed said she was “appalled” that funds tied to the Dream Keeper Initiative may have been mismanaged, following a San Francisco Chronicle report that detailed how Dream Keeper moneyat Martha’s Vineyard in Massachussets and a San Francisco Standard report on close personal ties between Davis and leader of a nonprofit thatAlthough she has faced no charges herself, Breed’s opponents have seized on the web of corruption uncovered at City Hallfeel poorly about the direction of The City and express low confidence in city government. And, while polls demonstrate she’s obviously a formidable candidate for reelection, Breed has been hampered byFarrell has locked in on what he describes as The City’s “failed leadership” since he left office in 2018 after serving a stint as interim mayor. Farrell, who served two terms on the Board of Supervisors, pledges to bring change to City Hall. Opponents argue that Farrell is more of the same and have repeatedly called out his campaign’s organization and its close ties withMark Farrell during the mayoral debate at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. In July, multiple outlets reported that Farrell had established a ballot-measure committee that was ostensibly formed to support TogetherSF’s proposed charter reforms. The measure aims to limit the influence of commissions in city government, but Farrell’s opponents have called him out for sharing campaign expenses between his mayoral campaign and the ballot-measure committee.Nowadays, common campaign strategies are to embrace scandal or flat-out ignore it. Farrell has largely plowed ahead unimpeded. His campaign releases statements assuring that lawyers have signed off everything the campaign has undertaken, and returns its focus to calling out Breed’s administration. In a polarized environment, candidates can also “use the scandal as a badge of honor,” Rottinghaus said, and might argue that “‘if someone says I’m doing something wrong it’s because they’re out to get me.’”“Breed’s administration reeks of backroom deals and cover-ups, yet she has the gall to point fingers at others,” Farrell told The Standard on Thursday.A rendering shows the proposed clinical and life-sciences building — which would include a cutting-edge proton-beam therapy center for cancer treatment — that UCSF wants to build in the middle of an emerging neighborhood on San Francisco’s central waterfront. The University of California Board of Regents gave the green light Thursday for UCSF to proceed with development of a new clinical- and life-sciences building that would include a cutting-edge proton-beam therapy center for cancer treatment in the middle of an emerging neighborhood on San Francisco’s central waterfront. The regents, meeting in Los Angeles, approved the design for a 130-foot tall building, which would rise eight stories above ground and have two subterranean levels. The structure would occupy a vacant plot in theAlso Thursday, the regents approved an amendment to UCSF’s long-range development plan and environmental documents for the project. “This is an exciting project that will bring together renowned patient care and biomedical research, as well as graduate-level training and new biomedical companies to serve the region for years to come,” read a statement issued by UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood. “It will also provide good jobs in the Dogpatch area, contributing to the economic vitality of this area of the city. We are pleased that the UC Regents saw the value in this project and its importance to San Francisco.” UCSF is proposing to enter into a public-private partnership with the property developer, Associate Capital, to bring the new building to reality. Business terms have not yet been finalized. The university’s report to the regents sketched out a vision for a structure, which, in addition to the proton-beam treatment center, would house various kinds of clinics, research laboratories and space for an incubator for life-sciences companies seeking to either commercialize discoveries made by university staff or tap into the expertise of research communities. Construction could start in 2025, with clinics open in 2028 and the proton-beam therapy center ready in 2029, the report said. With only yes votes, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in July approved the design for the approximately 300,000 square-foot building. The site where it would rise is four blocks south of UCSF’s Mission Bay campus, a development that played a vital role in the transformation of former industrial and rail-yard lands into a bustling neighborhood. Just east of the Potrero Hill and Dogpatch neighborhoods, the land is part of a sweeping, multi-phase, master-planned development that would bring office, residential and hotel uses as well as a new waterfront park to an area roughly bounded by 22nd Street, 23rd Street, Illinois Street and the bay. The stretch of coastline has not been publicly accessible for generations. Proton-beam therapy can provide highly precise, concentrated doses of radiation that directly target cancer cells while limiting damage to surrounding tissues, UCSF said. The precision enables oncologists to treat some of the most challenging cancers, including cancers of the brain, eye, lung, prostate and spine, it said.Stanford Health Care is in the midst of building one for the Stanford Medicine Cancer Center that is slated to be available by late 2025, a spokesperson said. “Our vision to bring proton therapy to cancer patients at UCSF has taken years to reach realization,” said Catherine Park, chair of UCSF Radiation Oncology, who has been working on the project since 2015. “Access to state-of-the-art proton therapy will allow us to advance the possibility of cure and reduce side effects.”Click and hold your mouse button on the page to select the area you wish to save or print. You can click and drag the clipping box to move it or click and drag in the bottom right corner to resize it. 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