The Facts

The San Francisco Democratic Party has just endorsed seven more candidates and ballot positions also backed in the GrowSF voter guide: Manny Yekutiel for District 8 supervisor, Autumn Brown Garibay, Phil Kim, and Tim Tung for Board of Education, plus No on Propositions G, I, and 40.

The Context

Yekutiel offers an ambitious plan to build homes, improve public safety, and support small businesses. The school-board slate combines an educator focused on measurable outcomes, a parent demanding that district goals reach classrooms, and an auditor with deep public-finance experience.

Proposition G would close Sunset Dunes Park and allow cars back on the Great Highway on most weekdays. Proposition I would divert roughly $120 million annually from the General Fund into restricted housing programs and make San Francisco’s high transfer tax harder to change. Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on wealth, risking future tax revenue by encouraging wealthy residents to leave California and inviting years of expensive legal challenges.

The GrowSF Take

San Francisco’s political center of gravity keeps moving toward growth, accountability, and competent government. These candidates are serious about results, and the party was right to reject three ballot measures that would reopen a settled fight, weaken the city budget, and threaten California’s tax base.

The Democratic Party made seven good calls. Voters should do the same in November.