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Tue 9/13 – D11 – Childcare celebration or campaign event?  D11 candidate Ahsha Safai gets mayor’s support while incumbent Sup. Avalos is ignored at event celebrating nonprofit success

Let’s help Kim defeat Ahsha, we don’t need any more Mayor Lee flunkies on the BoS.

Tue, 11/1 – Safai’s ethically challenged affordable housing deal may hit brick wall 
Real-estate house-flippers D11 Supe candidate Ahsha Safai and his partner come up with an “idea” for new affordable housing in D11, which sounds good just before the election but is fraught with ethical problems.

Sat, 10/29 – Paywall – Ethics complaints fly at City Hall over District 11 candidate
D11 Supervisor John Avalos filed an ethics complaint against D11 Supervisor candidate Ahsha Safai.  Safai boasts of a proposed 104-unit affordable housing complex but does not reveal he has a financial tie to the developer.  Avalos also accuses Safai of failing to register as a lobbyist.

Tue, 10/25 – Mattresses and torn pants: The struggles of working families
Op-ed by Ahsha Safai, D11 Supe candidate, “Everything that I do and everything that I will be about will be to help working people.”
[By election day his Supervisor campaign will have about $1 million, mostly from real-estate and tech interests, with little support from working people.]

Fri, 10/14 – Community, labor leaders protest scary Big Tech dark money
It’s clear what’s going on here: The allies of Mayor Ed Lee, who want to take back control of the Board of Supes, have decided that their best shot at blocking a progressive majority is to go after [Kim] Alvarenga and [Sandra] Fewer. So they are pouring in the money at a staggering rate.

Wed, 10/12 – Paywall – SF supervisor hopeful Ahsha Safai touts tenure at troubled agency, the commission that was so ineffective Mayor Ed Lee removed almost the entire bunch, Safai included, three years later.

Mon, 10/4 – Following the big tech and real estate money in D11 and D9
Hundreds of thousands from Big Tech and anti-labor developer pour in to support Safai and Arce.

Tue 10/4 – Janitor’s union: Campaign for D11 candidate Ahsha Safai or pay $150  — and it’s his union!

Sun 10/2  – D1, D9, D11 attacks — Negative campaign season in San Francisco by Nato Green

Fri 9/30 – Paywall – D11 ‘Dirty’ Politics: How The City’s Janitors Could Swing The Board Of Supes’ Balance of Power

Fri 9/30 – D1, 5, 9, 11 – Paywall — Outside groups spend heavily on moderates in SF supervisor races

Thu 9/29 – D11 — All District 11 supe candidates say neighborhoods underserved

Thu 9/29 – D11 candidates Kim Alvarenga, Ahsha Safai

Wed 9/28 – D11 – Real-estate forces fail to force a DCCC revote in D11  – The DCCC voted “No endorsement” for D11 Supe.  The ReCoTown forces on DCCC tried to get a revised endorsement of Ahsha Safai and failed.

Sun 9/18 – D11 – Ahsha Safai’s distinguished record of not much
Nato Green, “All we can go on is his donors, which make him seem like a wholly owned subsidiary of Willie Brown-Newsom-Lee, and his actual record of public service, which seems to consist of nothing.”

Tue 9/13 – D11 – Childcare celebration or campaign event?  D11 candidate Ahsha Safai gets mayor’s support while incumbent Sup. Avalos is ignored at event celebrating nonprofit success

Thu 7/14  The story Ahsha Safai doesn’t tell in his campaign for supervisor — He’s a real-estate speculator, house flipper, and gets almost half of his money from the real-estate industry — so why is he getting progressive support?  — by Tim Redmond