The majority of the results are in for a questionnaire San Francisco Public Press distributed to all of this year’s candidates in San Francisco’s mayoral election.
The Public Press worked in collaboration with U.C. Hastings College of the Law and U.C. Davis political science professors to create a survey asking candidates to answer questions on potential or current city policies as a means to specify their ideologies.
Candidates answered questions referring to a number of debated issues that have gone, or are set to go, before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. For example, eight of the responding candidates said they supported delaying the Central Subway Project while John Avalos, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Joanna Rees and Leland Yee encouraged the project to move forward.
As of this time, candidates Dennis Herrera, Ed Lee and Cesar Ascarrunz have not yet turned in their responses.
Results of the questionnaire are being put to use at noon on today as the basis for questioning at a mayoral candidate forum in the Louis B. Mayer Lounge of U.C. Hastings. Survey answers will also be used in future Public Press stories, as the basis for a nonpartisan newsdesk.org voter guide and as part of an academic study of issue-based voting in municipal elections with ranked-choice voting.
The answers to the survey so far are availabile in PDF form in a 38-page document. Updates will be posted as answers from remaining candidates are available.
