There’s a mayoral race going on right now, and there was a debate last night

The headline over at Mission Local is “Opponents Slam SF Mayor Lee in First Debate”:

Though Mayor Ed Lee is widely predicted to win re-election this November, he faced staunch opposition from five candidates at a forum Thursday night as opponents zeroed in on suspected corruption in city hall and a failure to address San Francisco’s worsening housing crisis.

“We need to take our city back,” said candidate Stuart Schuffman, better known as comedian and blogger Broke Ass Stuart. “We need to get the money out of politics. This corporate money is ruling our city. We need to start thinking about our communities and the best sustainable ways of keeping them together.”

Some 300 people, many of them hissing and booing at Lee’s points, tried to squeeze into the small auditorium on the University of California San Francisco campus. About a third of the crowd were sticker-wearing Lee supporters, while the rest came to support alternative candidates.

Read on for the full story.

2 Responses to “There’s a mayoral race going on right now, and there was a debate last night”

  1. Mango Pescalito says:

    Stuart “Hella Thirsty” Schuffman 4 Mayor.

  2. MomCat says:

    Here is the video of the debates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCPGUW4jskM&feature=youtu.be

    Amy Weiss! <3