Good morning freedom lovers,
I just last minute found the info for what I’m told is the first debate this season to which all the candidates on the ballot for San Francisco mayor have been invited:
It’s at Gray Area’s theater space, 2665 Mission Street (between 22nd and 23rd streets in the Mission neighborhood), from 9:30am to noon this morning. Sponsored by a Latino organization I hadn’t heard of before, the San Francisco Latino Parity and Equity Coalition (SFLPEC).
One of the eight candidates who’s been excluded from previous official debates told me about this when I met him at the Log Cabin Republicans endorsement meeting on Wednesday, but he didn’t send me the details as I expected and I just found them online. Shahram Shariati (About Me - Shahram Sharati) did say the candidates would still be segregated into two batches, with the five arbitrarily anointed as those worthy of voter consideration appearing separately from the eight usually excluded from debates.
I find this apartheid-style debate objectionable, but it beats not having the majority of the candidates, including possibly the best of them, not there at all.
I could be wrong, but from talking with him and fellow candidate Keith Freedman (https://mayor.keithfreedman.com/) – briefly in Shariati’s case, but he and Freedman support each other as their second choices respectively on the ranked choice ballot – both of them have given me the impression that they are likely more pro-freedom than any of the anointed five.
With the exception of wealthy self-financed candidate Daniel Lurie, the five are all incumbent or former mayors, or members of the Board of Supervisors. The five are also all Democrats, while I believe the others include independents and a Republican. It’s the same kind of anti-grassroots treatment that Libertarians and other alternative parties routinely get from the establishment 2-party cartel (Republicans and Democrats) at the national level.
If you can make it, even dropping in part way through, please attend. Vote with your feet to let the Powers That Be know San Francisco residents and voters want to hear from ALL the candidates running, not only those who are connected to the local government power structure or have lots of money.
There’s a Google form to fill out if you want to RSVP – Mayoral Forum Attendance – but I don’t think doing so is required. I’m just going to show. up.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
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