"In her campaign launch video, Chan sought to distinguish herself from her opponents with thinly veiled swipes at both Wiener and Chakrabarti: "I'm not a corporate Democrat. I didn't make money in tech. I'm a working mom. I made lunch for my kid." Wiener has raised over $1 million for his campaign so far, according to campaign finance filings, and much of his giving comes from employees in the financial, insurance, and real estate sectors, according to Calmatters' Digital Democracy project."
"Chakrabarti became a centimillionaire as a founding engineer at Stripe. He has pledged to self-fund his campaign. In her video, Chan also took a stab at Wiener's stance on housing, vouching to "build real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods." As state senator, Wiener, the godfather of the YIMBYs, has passed a number of policies to spur development, loosen zoning restrictions and put teeth into housing construction mandates."
Connie Chan announced a campaign for the San Francisco seat in the U.S. House of Representatives formerly held by Nancy Pelosi. Chan represents District 1, covering Richmond, Sea Cliff and Presidio Terrace, and has served as supervisor since January 2021. Major opponents include state Senator Scott Wiener and former tech executive Saikat Chakrabarti. Chan is the only major Chinese candidate. Chan frames herself as a non-corporate, working-mom Democrat and emphasizes coalition-building and community investment. She criticizes development approaches tied to Sacramento policy and vows to build real affordable housing. Wiener has raised over $1 million with donors from finance, insurance and real estate. Chakrabarti became a centimillionaire at Stripe and plans to self-fund his campaign.
Read at Mission Local
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]