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Monday, March 24, 2025
LGBTQ Democratic leaders in San Francisco are ramping up their efforts to secure more funding for Bay Area transit agencies. Resolutions on the matter are set to be taken up this week by both the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the San Francisco Democratic Party.
It comes as state lawmakers press ahead with their own efforts to save regional transit systems that have yet to recover financially from the downturn in commuting patterns wrought five years ago by the COVID pandemic and employers’ pivot to remote work. More employees are expected to be required to return to their office spaces on a daily basis in the coming months, however, the fiscal pain for transit agencies is expected to linger for some time.
February 26, 2025
As Bay Area transit agencies scramble to find new revenue sources to deal with multimillion-dollar deficits, LGBTQ Democratic leaders in San Francisco are moving to condemn a Trump administration policy they consider to be not only homophobic but also disastrous for the future of public transportation in the region.
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit profiles a soon-to-be unveiled process for reporting sexual misconduct within the ranks of San Francisco’s powerful and influential Democratic Party
February 20, 2025 at 1:29 am
San Francisco is taking unprecedented steps to clean up its politics. Democratic leaders have been increasingly concerned over what they see as a lack of accountability when it comes to sexual harassment and abuse within political campaigns as well as government offices.
Nancy Tung led a slate of relative moderates who took control of the San Francisco Democratic Party. As chair, she says the party needs to be less performative and more focused on issues affecting the daily lives of voters.
Feb. 9, 2025 3 AM PT
The reckoning that’s followed Trump’s return to the White House extends to one of the country’s bluest bastions.
Local party chair Nancy Tung says Democrats need to focus more on results and less on performative gestures.
SAN FRANCISCO — These are soul-searching days for Democrats, a time of reckoning and self-criticism as they try to comprehend why they lost Congress and the White House and struggle to find their way back from political purgatory.
Jan. 14, 2025
Ben & Sharky meet with San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee Chair (wow what a mouthful!) and Mayoral Transition Advisor Nancy Tung. We discuss the then-upcoming Mayoral appointments (which, thanks to a grumpy SD disk, took a week to post so those appointments have now been made) as well as the then-upcoming Board of Supervisors election for Board President. Sound like inside baseball? It absolutely is. This is the kind of magic our little podcast delivers.
San Francisco Democratic Party leaders voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a new set of sexual harassment and assault policies and code of conduct following allegations levied against prominent party members earlier this year.
Dec 5, 2024 Updated Dec 9, 2024
“The unanimous vote speaks to the strong coalition of collaborators we created with stakeholders from democratic clubs, survivors, experts, and advocacy groups,” said Lily Ho, the chair of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee’s special committee responsible for drafting the new rules, in a statement Thursday. “Next, we will focus on ensuring the integrity of implementation to see these policies to fruition.”
Dec 4, 2024
Background
The San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (SFDCCC), also known as the San Francisco Democratic Party, has adopted a first-of-its-kind accountability framework to for sexual harassment and assault in the political environment. The process is outlined in the ‘Code of Conduct and Policies for Sexual Assault and Harassment for the San Francisco Democratic Party’ (Code of Conduct and Policies) approved by the San Francisco Democratic Party on December 4, 2024.
Nov 3, 2024
On the first Sunday of the month, Fuf Vollmayer normally visits the birds in the botanical garden in Golden Gate Park. But November is not like every month so despite the perfect bird-watching weather, Vollmayer found herself at San Francisco Democratic Party campaign headquarters when it opened at 10 a.m.
Within an hour, after being trained, she had made 42 calls in the presidential election phone bank, an exercise in democracy she had never participated in before.
SAN FRANCISCO — Updated: 10:20 PM PDT Oct 29, 2024
With one week left until Election Day, political parties in the Bay Area are making a final push to get support for their candidates.
San Francisco GOP chair John Dennis said he’s feeling pretty confident heading into Nov. 5.
“I’m feeling good on a bunch of levels,” Dennis said. “And then we have some work to do in other spaces.”
On the other side of the aisle, things are different. “I’m feeling a lot of energy, also a lot of anxiety,” said Nancy Tung, chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party.
Dec 9, 2024
Since the successful recall of three school board members and progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin two years ago, moderate politics have been on the rise in San Francisco. The 2024 election saw the ousting of two of the city’s most progressive supervisors. Nancy Tung is the chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party and joins Scott to talk about the party’s move toward the middle and a new policy on sexual assault and harassment following a string of allegations against local politicos.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
If they're seeking to help hometown favorite Kamala Harris' campaign for president of the United States, denizens of overwhelmingly Democratic San Francisco need look no further than the vacant old Nordstrom Rack on Market Street – now decorated with hand-drawn poster board signs and featuring an abundance of cookies and candy bars.
And it isn't the only way San Franciscans who want to see former President Donald Trump lose his bid to return to the White House can get involved in national politics. One gay man is organizing trips to Nevada, a swing state, while another is helping coordinate volunteers to make phone calls in support of Democratic candidates.
Sep 16, 2024 Updated Sep 17, 2024
Several times a week for the next two months, dozens of San Francisco volunteers will descend upon a former Nordstrom Rack in SoMa to make phone calls, strategize and lend their support to Kamala Harris’ presidential run and other down-ballot Democratic candidates.
“There’s a lot of energy behind our efforts at headquarters because of the presidential campaign and Kamala being one of our own — we have created a space for volunteers who want to support our local, state and federal endorsed candidates and campaigns,” said Carrie Barnes, a vice chair of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee. in a statement to The Examiner. “It’s also important for us to lay the groundwork for a democratic majority in congress so that when Kamala wins she can advance a democratic agenda.”
An open letter doesn’t explicitly call for Joe Biden to step aside but argues the vice president is best positioned to defeat Donald Trump.
Jul 7, 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Leading members of the Democratic Party in San Francisco on Friday declared Vice President Kamala Harris is the “candidate with the most viable path to victory,” calling for her to be the party’s nominee if President Joe Biden decides not to continue.