Scott Wiener has been an extremely effective legislator and visionary leader in the state Senate.

His achievements include

• Being the earliest and most powerful pro-housing legislator, including on a national stage. He passed SB 828 to get SF to build 80,000 new homes in 8 years, and also passed SB 35 and SB 423, which make it easier to get housing developments approved in California and have directly led to thousands of new homes.

• Pro-LGBT, progressive activism, and not backing down despite receiving some horrible abuse from the right.

• Pro-transit, including being a key figure in stabilizing BART and MUNI funding and keeping the systems running through and after the pandemic.

• Supporting deregulating hallucinogenic drugs and letting bars and clubs continue selling alcohol until 4a, instead of the current 2a.

He’s now running for Nancy Pelosi’s seat in Congress (in the House), and while the federal government is even more polarized and broken than the CA state government, I am optimistic Scott will continue to find ways to work across the aisle with Republicans and more moderate Democrats to craft effective policy.

His opponent is Connie Chan. Backed by some labor groups and the DSA, Connie supports some populist slop policies, like the proposed 5% billionaire tax prop that has already driven Sergey Brin and other rich people out of the state and would hurt our economic climate and startup scene if passed.

Ro Khanna, the Democratic candidate, is going to win this race. But he has been running on a far-left populist platform, supporting the 5% one-time CA-only billionaire tax measure that is on the ballot, opposing Waymo self-driving cars, and generally siding with labor unions over the interests of Silicon Valley in every policy dispute.

His opponent, Ritesh Tandon, supports speeding permitting, federal incentives for new housing supply, and transit-oriented housing development. He also opposes the aforementioned billionaire tax. I don't agree with all of his policies, and I don't think he has a shot, but we should protest vote against Ro Khanna to send a signal that he should not be a viable candidate for President.

Rob Bonta has done a great job as Attorney General, finally going after cities, working with the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to force cities to approve plans for more homes and come into compliance with new state laws to encourage housing production authored by GOATed State Senator Scott Wiener. He will win reelection handily as the only Democrat running.