SF News Congress to Grill SFUSD’s Maria Su, Two Others on Parental Rights ‘Abuses’ In Schools All eyes will be on SFUSD Superintendent Maria Su and two other school figures from Chicago and Virginia who are set to speak before a GOP-led committee in DC this week on “inappropriate content” and “legal abuses” in public schools.
SF Politics Still Not Giving a Formal Endorsement, Pelosi Offers Praise For Connie Chan House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who is now mere months away from a well-deserved retirement, says she's been sitting back and trying to gauge the public's reaction to the candidates running for her seat.
SF Politics Former Pelosi Staffer Says Chakrabarti Was Fired From AOC's Staff Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's lack of an endorsement for her former chief of staff in the San Francisco House race was already playing an outsized role in this primary season, but now we get a bit more to the story.
SF Politics Four Democrats Rally Behind Caretaker Candidate to Fill Swalwell’s Seat Until End of Term A group of Democrats pledged to drop out of the special election to fill Eric Swalwell’s seat in favor of a caretaker candidate — retired state Senator Bob Wieckowski, with the goal of avoiding a runoff election that would cause Swalwell’s replacement to miss important votes.
SF Politics AOC Declines to Endorse Former Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti In Awkward Video Maybe this was a strategic decision on her part, but Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clearly declined to offer an endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti when asked by a reporter this week about his primary race in SF.
SF Politics Eric Swalwell Resigns From Congress, But Says That Effort to Swiftly Expel Him Is 'Wrong' The implosion of the political career of Eric Swalwell, following 13 years in Congress, took only three days, and as of Monday afternoon he had announced his resignation from Congress.
SF News Sunday Links: Thousands March In ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the Bay Area Stockton and Modesto have the most supercommuters in the country of cities with populations over 200,000; the government shutdown, currently on its 44th day, is the longest in US history; and thousands across the Bay Area marched in "No Kings" protests Saturday.
SF News Northern California Congressman Doug LaMalfa Dies Suddenly at Age 65 Doug LaMalfa, who has represented California's 1st Congressional District for the last 13 years, died suddenly on Monday at the age of 65. No cause of death has been announced, but LaMalfa's death will further constrain Republicans' narrow majority in the House.
SF News Saturday Links: Caltrain Launches Electric Holiday Train, Wins ‘Fastest Growing Transit Agency’ Congressional candidates Connie Chan, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Scott Wiener attended a youth climate justice talk; last-minute shoppers can rejoice in this hyperlocal gift guide; and Caltrain’s popular Holiday Train sold out very quickly but spectators can still watch it go by Saturday.
SF Politics London Breed Confirms She Is Thinking of Running for Pelosi's House Seat Former San Francisco Mayor London Breed may, indeed, be among the field of candidates vying for Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress after she retires next year.
SF Politics 39-Year-Old Bernie Bro Challenging Nancy Pelosi for Her SF Congressional Seat in 2026 Former Silicon Valley engineer and one-time AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti is lodging a longshot bid for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, with a sizable personal fortune, but very little name recognition.
SF Politics With Final House Seat Decided In California, Republicans Set to Have a One-Vote Majority Until Vacancies Are Filled California's 13th Congressional District has flipped from Republican to Democrat, and with that race settled, we now know that the Republicans yet again hold the slimmest of majorities in the House — 220 seats to Democrats' 215.
SF Politics US Congress Targets UC Berkeley With Antisemitism Probe In Wake of Pro-Palestine Protests Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
SF Politics Lateefah Simon Commands Huge Lead in Primary Race for Barbara Lee’s House Seat Longtime East Bay congressional representative Barbara Lee was rendered a lame duck by Tuesday’s election results, but Lee’s preferred successor for her House seat, Lateefah Simon, crushed all rivals in Tuesday's primary.
SF News The Race to Replace Barbara Lee in Congress Is Heating Up Longtime East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee is vacating her seat in her bid for Senate, and of the nine candidates running to replace her, BART director Lateefah Simon seems to be pulling ahead.
SF Politics South Bay Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Announces She Will Not Run for Reelection Longtime Peninsula Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is planning to retire from the House next year, and she announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking reelection.
SF Politics Temporary House Speaker Evicts Pelosi From Her Capitol Office In what's clearly a petty move on the part of House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, Nancy Pelosi was informed Tuesday night that she had until Wednesday to vacate her office space in the Capitol building.
SF Politics House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Removed as Speaker Same Day That Laphonza Butler Is Sworn In to Senate Today was a momentous day that should go down in infamy for the House of Representatives, as a predicted outcome of the Republican Party's narrow hold on the chamber has come to pass.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi to Get Added Security In Congressional Spending Bill After Leaving Speakership A provision in the government funding package working its way through Congress ahead of a December 23 deadline would provide added security to former Speakers of the House — just in time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from the speakership.
SF Politics Meet Kevin Mullin, Who Just Won Jackie Speier’s Longtime Congressional Seat As Rep. Jackie Speier leaves Congress after 15 years, her peninsula and South Bay seat has been won by her endorsed candidate and former state Senate staffer Kevin Mullin.
Business & Tech Twitter Whistleblower Testifies About Breaches, Vulnerabilities on the Platform Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower and former security exec there who surfaced three weeks ago to tell the world that all is not well within Twitter's security systems, testified before a Senate Committee today.
SF Politics South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren Talks About the January 6th Investigation, and How Trump's Big Lie Bilked Donors Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has, in the course of her career, been on the inside of the impeachments of three presidents, but she says that what the House January 6th Committee has been engaged in is still unprecedented for Congress.
SF Politics Rep. Jackie Speier, Whose Political Career Began at Jonestown, Announces Retirement at Age 71 "It's time for me to come home, time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend," said longtime Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
Business & Tech Facebook, Twitter, and Google Face Angry Lawmakers In First Congressional Hearing Since Biden's Inauguration The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were testifying before Congress on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, and for possibly the last time before lawmakers begin debating sweeping changes to how they're allowed to do business.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Calls DC Shooting 'Despicable And Cowardly' House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Bay Area politicians have responded to this morning's shooting at a baseball diamond outside Washington, DC that involved several Republican members of Congress. Among those injured
