{"id":3065,"date":"2011-09-21T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2017-05-28T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T06:45:41","slug":"dccc-to-consider-third-place-mayoral-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3065\/dccc-to-consider-third-place-mayoral-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"DCCC to Consider Third-Place <br>Ranked-Choice Mayoral Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos\/bos_ohio_debate_080226\/html\/mw2w5018_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DCCC Chair and former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.  File photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Update, 11:09 pm.<\/em>\u00a0 In a close 14-16 vote, the DCCC failed tonight to muster the required votes to vote for a third-place candidate endorsement.\u00a0 Peskin voted in support of a third-place candidate endorsement vote.<\/p>\n<p>September 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) will tonight vote on a possible third-place endorsement in the ranked-choice race for mayor, Fog City Journal can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for this item is that we have ranked-choice voting,\u201d said DCCC Chair and former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. \u201cRanked-choice voting works best when there are multiple choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3012\/avalos-onek-mirkarimi-win-democratic-party-first-place-endorsements\/\">August 17 endorsements meeting<\/a>, the DCCC voted to endorse Supervisor John Avalos (first) and City Attorney Dennis Herrera (second).\u00a0 The influential 32-member body could not muster enough votes for a third-place endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Following that vote, Peskin and the DCCC came under fire from interim Mayor Ed Lee and other individuals in the Asian-American community for not endorsing an Asian-American candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Chinatown powerbroker Rose Pak, who played a pivotal role with former Mayor Willie Brown in persuading Lee to break his promise to the Board of Supervisors and run for a full-term, went a step further calling Peskin a racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are speaking with me, Aaron Peskin, who is used to spurious attacks that are baseless and they roll off of my back like water off a duck,\u201d Peskin said of those who played the race card.<\/p>\n<p>There are five leading Asian-American candidates in the mayor\u2019s race including Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, Lee, Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting and State Senator Leland Yee.<\/p>\n<p>In the August 17 vote for a third-place endorsement, Yee received 8 votes, Chiu received 3 votes and Lee received one vote. No other candidates were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2011\/dccc_endorsements_meeting_20110817\/1000%20across\/dccc_endorsement_mayor.jpg\" rel=\"fancybox-gallery\">considered<\/a> for a third-place endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Peskin, who placed the item on tonight\u2019s agenda, rebuffed a suggestion the item was placed on the agenda to assuage those who played the race card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the will of the 32 elected members,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cIf the majority of them want to do it, God bless them.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t, we\u2019ve endorsed John Avalos first and Dennis Herrera second, and so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s meeting will be held at the State Building on Golden Gate Ave and begins at 7 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its August 17 endorsements meeting, the DCCC voted to endorse former Supervisor John Avalos (first) and City Attorney Dennis Herrera (second).  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