San Francisco Chronicle columnist Chuck “C.W.” Nevius is imploring tech companies “to get into politics, particularly grassroots politics in cities like Oakland and San Francisco.” But he misses the obvious: the tech industry is and has been deeply involved with local politics, led by Ron Conway (photo).
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Posted in2016 Non-partisan Voter Guide, City Hall, Elections, News, Open Government, Public Safety
$2 Million Fills War Chests of S.F. Candidates as Races Heat Up
With two months until Election Day, more than $2 million has been amassed in the collective war chests for local candidate campaigns, 90 percent of which has been raised for six Board of Supervisors seats.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, News
Online TV Archive Preserves History of Politics Coverage
This publicly accessible tool helps journalists (and anyone else who’s interested) for the first time to perform data-driven analyses of the content found on television.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, News
Tracking TV News — and the Challenges Involved
Despite numerous challenges, our findings quantified how the local election was covered: Coverage was scarce — and repetitive.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, News
Mining the Internet Archive’s TV News
The director of the TV News Archive sits down with us to explain how people can use the database to search for news segments and share them on social media.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, City Hall, Elections, Housing, Media, Technology
Slick, Misleading TV Ads Paid Off
The 2015 election united the political clout of two rich, powerful industries that will exert an enduring in uence across the city, Bay Area and nation: real estate and technology.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, News
Election Ads Overshadowed TV News 7-to-1
Bay Area stations surveyed aired a combined 25.8 hours of paid political ads. By comparison, they aired about 3.5 hours of election news coverage.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, News
In Bid for Dominance, Mayor’s Allies Flood S.F. Politics With Corporate Cash
Last year spending on local elections was the highest on record, reaching nearly $28 million. The infusion of cash demonstrates how politicians and their powerful associates wield an influence on the political process that our campaign finance laws cannot effectively or appropriately manage.
Posted inCampaign Finance: The Rising Cost of Winning Votes, Data Privacy, Elections, Open Government
What Don’t We Know About Campaign Finance?
The Public Press spent six months digging and sorting, and many hours talking with staff at the Ethics Commission for clarification on the best ways to find and distill the information on the 2015 elections.
