Supervisor Matt Dorsey, speaking at a news conference at San Francisco Police Department headquarters in 2025, earns the editorial board’s endorsement for a second term.

In an election year filled with drama over the billionaire tax and the future of California’s finances, the race for San Francisco District 6 supervisor is a snoozer.  

Incumbent Supervisor Matt Dorsey is all but guaranteed victory over his lone opponent, newcomer Alex Behrend, whose only prior political experience was as a voter organizer for Dean Preston’s 2024 campaign for District 5 supervisor.

Behrend’s website says his “biggest accomplishment of the last decade (or more!) has been surviving the exploitation of one employer after another.” He described himself to this editorial board as housing insecure and a vulnerable worker with disabilities. “I have seen how corporations and political career politicians choose to keep the thumb on folks like us and treat those who are making this city unlivable with kid gloves.”

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The centerpiece of his platform is that organizing and........

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