Former candidate for District 10 Supervisor Tony Kelly. File photo by Luke Thomas.
By Luke Thomas
November 16, 2010
Tony Kelly today conceded defeat in the race for District 10 Supervisor.
Though the final vote tallies from the ranked-choice race have not been officially certified by the San Francisco Department of Elections, Malia Cohen, a liberal Democrat, is the presumed Supervisor-elect for the District.
Though Kelly garnered the most first place votes in the first round, Cohen benefited from second and third place votes from fellow contenders Lynette Sweet and Eric Smith, among others in the twenty-one candidates race.
“Tonight, I offered my congratulations to District 10’s next Supervisor, Malia Cohen,” said Kelly, a progressive, in an email. “I came in second in the ranked-choice runoff, by a few hundred votes.”
“I am very proud of the grassroots campaign that we built over the past year,” Kelly added. “We had more donors from District 10 than anyone, more volunteers from District 10 than anyone, and just as many first-place votes in District 10 as any other campaign. So we know the voters heard us. They, like us, want a Supervisor who will listen to all our concerns, bring real progressive ideas to the Board, and ensure that the City’s resources work much harder for the people of District 10.”
“Neighborhood leadership is not about one person, or one campaign. The alliances that came together during this year must continue, and I urge everyone interested in my candidacy to work with Supervisor Cohen, to show City Hall how to create local jobs, clean up our environment, support our families, and use common sense ideas to fix our budget. In years to come, we will all continue to fight for the people of District 10 with courage, compassion, better ideas and hard work.”
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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November 17, 2010 at 4:23 pm
FYI.
Ruth Snave>Lucretia Snapples>Arthur Evans.
November 17, 2010 at 10:10 am
I don’t like this Kelly fellow’s politics at all – but kudos for a display of class in what must have been a very tough defeat.
November 17, 2010 at 8:04 am
Thank you Tony for all you have said and done, I hope you continue to do so. Both you and most of the other ‘winners and loosers’ have made gracious statements of acceptance or concession. However I have yet to find anywhere a similar public pronouncement from the new supervisor for District 8, probably too busy stocking his staff with representatives of his downtown backers.
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances”; well he’s just another ‘player’, let’s hope he exits stage ‘right’ after the first act.
November 17, 2010 at 12:25 am
You’re right, Mike. Thanks for the correction. Sweet must have taken the lead with provisional ballots.
November 17, 2010 at 12:04 am
Actually, Lynette Sweet garnered the most votes in the first round, after all of the votes were counted.