OPINION 'If Proposition H passes, candidates for mayor would also have to compete with presidential and congressional candidates to raise money.'
This November, San Franciscans will vote on whether to move mayoral elections to presidential election years. Proposition H, as the initiative is called, would also extend Mayor London Breed’s term by one year to 2024.
It’s true aligning the mayoral and presidential elections would lead to more people voting. In recent presidential elections, turnout in San Francisco has been about 80%, while in mayoral elections it has been in the 40-45% range. Currently, mayoral elections occur in relatively low turnout years, but they frequently become the major political story in San Francisco. This gives the media an opportunity to cover the election and mayoral candidates in depth. More importantly, in the current system voters have a lot of bandwidth to think about the race for mayor.
Regardless of whether she runs for reelection in 2023 or 2024, London Breed will start her campaign with almost universal name recognition in San Francisco. This is unlikely to be true for any progressive challenger. Likewise, an outsider progressive candidate would have a harder time raising money from progressive San Francisco donors in a year when they may be more interested in senate races in other states or in helping a progressive presidential candidate.
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