What’s on the January-February 2022 Consolidated Special Election ballot

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It’s election time again!

Yes, again.

Starting in about a week, we’ll be voting in the January–February 2022 consolidated special election. There are up to three things to vote on in this ballot, depending on where in the City you’re registered to vote.

Your ballot should be in the mail this week. Officially, it should arrive on or around Monday, January 17, but SF ballots tend to arrive early.

We don’t have any recommendations or endorsements, but we can tell you what’s on the ballot, and we’ll have more information coming soon.

What’s on the ballot

The school board recall measures

The petitions got enough signatures, so three recall measures are on the ballot for three members of the San Francisco Board of Education (a.k.a. the school board):

• Alison Collins

• Gabriela López

• Faauuga Moliga

If any of these board members is recalled, the Mayor will appoint their replacement. (Yes, this is different from how statewide recalls work—the process for these City positions is prescribed by the City Charter.) Mayor Breed has endorsed all three recall measures.

Assessor-Recorder

This seat became vacant last year due to some musical chairs within the City government resulting from the ongoing storm of City corruption scandals. After the IRS charged former SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly with allegations of federal wire fraud back in 2020, his wife, then-City Administrator Naomi Kelly, resigned from her post. Mayor Breed appointed then-Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu to fill the Administrator position, then appointed Joaquín Torres as the new Assessor-Recorder.

Torres is running unopposed to keep the seat.

Assembly District 17

Speaking of musical chairs, Harlan Kelly’s seat at SFPUC was filled by now-former City Attorney Dennis Herrera, and the City Attorney seat by now-former AD-17 Assemblyman David Chiu.

So now those of us in district 17 need a new Assemblymember.

There are four candidates on the ballot. In alphabetical order by last name, they are:

• David Campos, former Chair of the SF Democratic County Central Committee

• Matt Haney, current Supervisor for what is currently District 6

• Bilal Mahmood, philanthropist

• Thea Selby, current trustee on the CCSF Board of Trustees.

Three of the four candidates submitted statements in the sample ballot; Bilal Mahmood did not.