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Sherman D’Silva lives in the Richmond District and runs a cleaning service, Shermsonia Cleaners on Geary Boulevard. He studied accounting at San Francisco State University. He said he decided to run for supervisor after seeing increasing vandalism, litter, traffic congestion and watching a pedestrian get hit by a car outside his store.
“I believe that a clean and safe neighborhood is what government is supposed to take care of first, before it does anything else,” D’Silva said in his candidate statement. “There will always be something else that needs to be addressed but if we can’t take care of these basic needs first then our priorities are all wrong.”
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Sandra Lee Fewer has been president of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education since 2014. A fourth-generation Chinese-American San Franciscan who has lived in District 1 for more than 50 years, Fewer previously served the Board of Education as vice president and a commissioner, and before that she was director of parent organizing and education policy at Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth. She has worked to support affordable family housing, ethnic studies and bilingual education. She lists her priorities as addressing the housing crisis, protecting the neighborhood’s quality of life, improving public and pedestrian safety, preserving local small businesses and making the city more family-friendly.
“I have a strong track record of building consensus and getting things done,” Fewer said in her candidate statement. “My record includes requiring local hire on school construction, helping evicted students, working for neighborhood schools, building affordable housing and strengthening pedestrian safety.”
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Richie Greenberg has lived in San Francisco for 15 years. He works as a business advisor and consultant, and previously operated a tax-and-payroll service. He said he has helped launch hundreds of new companies and nonprofits, and as supervisor he would support entrepreneurs and streamline small-business creation. Greenberg is a member of the Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club.
Among his priorities, if elected, would be fiscal responsibility “by all departments, with San Francisco’s $9 billion budget”; protecting neighborhood businesses; increasing police patrols with stronger gun regulation; reducing homelessness by providing mental health services; “overhauling the (school) assignment lottery”; and supporting “tight regulation of AirBnb, Uber etc.”
“I’m a proud husband, father, and have devoted over 25 years to my occupation, passionately empowering small businesses, planning and solving problems for a living,” Greenberg said in his candidate statement. “I know the value of being a responsive, strong leader to my over 1,000 clients of diverse racial, ethnic and faith backgrounds.”
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Jason Jungreis has been an attorney for 25 years, specializing in clean-technology law. For 17 years he has served as a judge pro tem in San Francisco Superior Court. He has lived in San Francisco for 30 years, 20 of those in the Richmond District. Jungreis offers a concise summary of his principles and detailed agenda: “Government should be lean, clean and green.” As such, he is an advocate for electric vehicles and clean energy: He drives an electric car, motorcycle and bicycle, and uses residential solar power.
Jungreis said he would not accept campaign donations.
“I do not intend to wage a funded campaign and I am not soliciting any campaign funds,” he said on his website. “This direct type of ‘campaign reform’ allows me to make the best judgments for our district without owing any favors to special interests. (I believe it is essentially impossible not to be beholden to a person or entity who gives you money.)”
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Samuel Kwong has been the owner of Arcus Architecture & Planning for 31 years. Born in Hong Kong, Kwong immigrated to San Francisco in 1974. He studied at City College of San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a BA in environmental design.
A resident of the outer Richmond district for 41 years, he has served as president of the Chinese American Democratic Club, president of the Asian American Architects and Engineers Association and a member of the Board of Director of the Soo Yuen Benevolent Association. He currently serves as vice president of the China Portsmouth Square Garage.
Kwong stresses his experience in architecture and planning as “offer[ing] realistic solutions to the housing crisis the city is experiencing.”
“The Richmond district like the rest of the west side of the city has never been included in a neighborhood study by the Planning Department. That none of the former supervisors of District 1 insisted on one is truly a disappointment,” Kwong said on his website. “The first thing I will do as supervisor is to find out why and when our Richmond residents will get one.”
Kwon did not submit contact information or an official candidate statement with the Department of Elections.
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Brian J. Larkin runs a consulting practice for construction resolution and dispute-resolution services. Holder of a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley, he previously worked as senior supervising engineer for BART. The Richmond District resident has served on the Citizens Advisory Committee to the San Francisco Transportation Authority and Transportation Effectiveness programs, and is on the Board of Directors for the Southeast Asian Community Center and for the Planning Association for the Richmond. For 13 years he was deputy commander of the San Francisco Civil Air Patrol.
He said his main reason for running is to bring to Muni rail service to the Richmond District by way of a tunnel. He said he would also push other infrastructure improvements, such as undergrounding utilities.
Larkin said District 1 is “a swing-district that will determine whether the moderates or the progressives have a majority on the Board of Supervisors.” But he complained, “Neither side thinks much about the Richmond District when its BOS seat is not on the ballot,” and in exchange for working with other board members “I will require something of substance in return for the residents of District 1.”
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David Lee teaches political science at San Francisco State University, and is the executive director of a nonprofit focused on registering voters and educating them about the political process. The Richmond District resident previously served as chair of the Community Police Advisory Board and on the Recreation & Park Commission. Lee lists pedestrian safety, transportation and affordable housing as important issues he would address.
“Our neighborhood faces major challenges: lack of affordable housing, crumbling infrastructure, inadequate transportation and increasing threats to public safety,” he said.
In 2012, Lee lost his attempt to unseat District 1 Supervisor Eric Mar, garnering 38.6 percent of the vote.
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Jonathan Lyens is a project manager at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. He worked in the city’s Department of Human Resources, the Mayor’s Office of Public Policy and Finance, and as an adviser for other supervisorial campaigns, including Janet Reilly’s failed 2010 bid in District 2. A resident of the Richmond District, he has served his community as president of the Richmond Neighborhood Center Board of Directors, and as president of the FDR Democratic Club of San Francisco for seniors and people with disabilities. Lyens has been blind since childhood and is an advocate for under-represented communities.
“As a community advocate for Richmond residents and for seniors and people with disabilities, I’ve fought to give marginalized communities a voice in our city government,” he said in his candidate statement. “As a city budget analyst, I worked every day to try and make City Hall more effective, efficient and accountable.”
His focus would be on “real solutions to protect tenants from eviction, house and help the city’s growing homeless population, improve local transit and most of all — make our city more affordable.”
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Marjan Philhour is the president of an outreach-and-strategy firm that serves campaigns, nonprofits and more. She began her career in politics as a legislative aide to Democratic U.S. Reps. Tom Lantos of California, Nita Lowey of New York and Lynn Rivers of Michigan. She later served as senior adviser, caucus coordinator, regional field director and finance director for different congressional campaigns and for California Gov. Gray Davis.
Philhour lives in the Richmond District and studied political science at University of California, Berkeley. She said her priorities include fighting for housing affordability solutions; investing in transportation and public schools; supporting tenants, small property owners and local businesses; transitioning the homeless to supportive housing; and refocusing on public health, cleanliness and safety.
“Over my twenty years of public service, I’ve seen government do good things for people by prioritizing constituent services,” said Philhour, a small-business owner and mother of three children. “This election offers a clear choice between a fresh direction in leadership or more of the same.
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Andy Thornley is a senior analyst at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s SFpark, the variable-pricing system that manages the availability of street parking. He was a board member on TransForm, a nonprofit that promotes community transportation choices, and policy/program director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Thornley said he wants to make bicycling “as attractive and convenient as driving for most trips,” as well as provide excellent transit options.
“I’m a public servant, an advocate, a tenant, a straphanger,” Thornley said in his candidate statement. “I have a deep appreciation of the complexities of public policy and administration as real things, from abstract initiative to implemented program, from need to solution. I’ve worked to weave the legal and the social and the political and the logistical into the actual, living city.”
Ranked-choice voting
Under the city’s ranked-choice voting, if no candidate initially receives 50 percent plus one, the top three candidates according to voters’ preferences face instant runoffs to determine the winner.
Our methodology
The Public Press chose to count endorsements from organizations that backed multiple candidates or ballot measures, and that made those endorsements available online. We did not count endorsements from individuals.
Some organizations endorsed a first and second choice for candidates in some races. Those preferences are not represented here.
If you think we missed an important organization, please tell us. We’d love to hear from you.
Tracked Endorsements by Organization
Published: Oct. 14, 2016
