With District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safaí termed out this year and running for mayor, five candidates vie to succeed him.
Michael Lai, Adlah Chisti, Ernest “E.J.” Jones, Roger Marenco, and Chyanne Chen are running for District 11 supervisor in the November 2024 election. Illustrations by Neil Ballard.
John Avalos, who represented the district from 2008 to 2016, described the D11 constituency as one that has voted progressively on issues like taxation, such as increasing the. But it can also be socially conservative, he said, noting the number of working-class families that are also foreign-born Asian and Latino.
“I don’t know why Michael Lai would be running for a district that he hasn’t lived in and hasn’t had a record in and hasn’t done any work in,” said Avalos, who has yet to endorse anyone. He called locals like Chen, Chisti and Jones “more viable.” Safaí, who is running for mayor this year, has endorsed Jones, his legislative aide from January 2021 to November 2022, saying he is more grounded and connected to the community.
All five candidates say they are running a ground campaign, knocking on doors, putting up flyers in the windows, and talking to and getting to know the constituents. Lai’s institutional support was on display at his launch. Sen. Scott Wiener, whom Lai calls a mentor, was there, as were Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Joel Engardio. Nancy Tung, DCCC’s new chair, spoke, as did Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Jones was a legislative aide to Safaí for about two years, from the beginning of 2021 to the end of 2022. Marenco interned at the office of former District 9 supervisor Tom Ammiano and was previously president of the San Francisco branch of the Transport Workers Union for about four years — until 2022, when he was removed from office and banned for three years
Avalos thinks it is “weird” that at this stage in the race, with the election about six months away, all of the policy statements or platforms are still very much “unformed.”
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