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School Board Vice President Hydra Mendoza kicked off her re-election campaign Friday at Coda in the Mission District. Photos by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

August 31, 2010<\/p>\n

San Francisco School Board Vice President Hydra Mendoza kicked off her re-election campaign Friday amid much fanfare and support.<\/p>\n

First elected to the Board in 2006, Mendoza decided to run for re-election in large part because of the accomplishments the current Board has achieved, not least of which is a spirit of cooperation between Board members to achieve results, a stark contrast to previous Board compositions plagued by infighting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me a while to really come to that place where I was committed to doing this again,\u201d Mendoza, a single mother of two, said to her supporters at Coda in the Mission District. \u201cThis is really hard work. I want to do this again because the work we\u2019ve done in the last four years has been incredible. It has been tremendous to work with people like Jane Kim and Jill Wynns and Mark Sanchez and Sandy Fewer and Rachel Norton and Norman Yee and Kim-Shree Maufus. This has been a team that has been really incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mendoza\u2019s four-year tenure on the Board has earned support and respect from all sides of the political aisle, a rarity in the loyalty-driven, partisan mindset of San Francisco politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s unique in that respect,\u201d said Mayor Gavin Newsom when asked to comment on Mendoza\u2019s crossover support and appeal. \u201cShe just delivers. She\u2019s not a rhetorician. She\u2019s not an ideologue. She doesn\u2019t do what a weekly newspaper tells her to do, but that doesn\u2019t mean that she doesn\u2019t agree with what they believe, and that\u2019s what makes her unique. She\u2019s not in anyone\u2019s pocket. She believes in her mission. She believes her number one purpose is to take care of the kids. She has strong labor support, strong parent support, strong community support, strong support from businesses and the business community as well and she\u2019s someone who gets it done – and at the end of the day, ideology solves nothing. Practical application, someone that can manifest ideas, those are the folks that change the world and she\u2019s one of those and she knows how to get things done and that\u2019s why I\u2019m supporting her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mayor Gavin Newsom<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mayor Gavin Newsom and Hydra Mendoza.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mendoza serves as Newsom\u2019s education liaison to the Board. Prior to her election to the Board, Mendoza served as Executive Director of Parents for Public Schools, a national organization committed to improving public education.<\/p>\n

Referring to Mendoza as a \u201crole model,\u201d a \u201cfriend and a sister,\u201d School Board President Jane Kim said she shares a special relationship with Mendoza.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing that I\u2019m very proud of on our Board of Education is that each member is deeply and genuinely rooted in public education\u2026 and Hydra is no exception,\u201d Kim said. \u201cWe developed not just an incredible collegiality, but a friendship over the last four years and Hydra has been one of the Board members that I have truly grown to respect, not just her passion for public education and promoting our public schools in our city, but her incredible dedication to bringing more resources (to the school district) and also her dedication to serving our children and our parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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School Board President Jane Kim<\/p><\/div>\n

Mendoza is endorsed by the United Educators of San Francisco, Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, Filipino Americans for Progress, African American Democratic Club, Richmond Democratic Club, Senator Mark Leno, Assemblymember Fiona Ma, Mayor Gavin Newsom, District Attorney Kamala Harris, Assessor Phil Ting, Treasurer Jose Cisneros, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, Supervisors Bevan Dufty, Sean Elsbernd, Carmen Chu, School Board Commissioners Jane Kim, Sandra Lee Fewer, Rachel Norton, Jill Wynns, Norman Yee, former School Board President Mark Sanchez, College Board Trustees Steve Ngo and Lawrence Wong and others.<\/p>\n

Three seats are up for re-election on the seven-member Board. Commissioners Mendoza and Maufus are seeking re-election. Commissioner Kim, who is running to succeed termed out District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly, is not seeking re-election to the Board.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: Luke Thomas is a resident and voter in District 6. In the interest of transparency, he has provided photography services to the campaigns for Hydra Mendoza and Natasha Hoehn<\/em><\/p>\n

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United Educators of San Francisco President Dennis Kelly and Hydra Mendoza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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School Board President Jane Kim and former School Board President Mark Sanchez with Hydra Mendoza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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School Board Commissioner Jill Wynns and former Youth Commissioner Peter Lauterborn.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Deputy Press Secretary Francisco Castillo and Board of Supervisors President David Chiu aide Judson True.<\/p><\/div>\n

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School Board Commissioner Sandra Lee Fewer and School Board President Jane Kim with Hydra Mendoza.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Enrique's Angels: Left Coast Consulting founder Enrique Pearce with School Board Commissioner Sandra Lee Fewer, Hydra Mendoza, School Board candidate Natasha Hoehn and School Board President Jane Kim. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First elected to the Board in 2006, Mendoza decided to run for re-election in large part because of the accomplishments the current Board has achieved, not least of which is a spirit of cooperation between Board members to achieve results, a stark contrast to previous Board compositions plagued by infighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nMendoza Kicks Off Re-Election Campaign for School Board - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2314\/mendoza-kicks-off-re-election-campaign-for-school-board\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mendoza Kicks Off Re-Election Campaign for School Board - 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