More than a year before the election, the race to represent San Francisco's Mission District is already heating up.
Leading candidates are touting early fundraising successes, and the race – which has included multiple candidates so far – is already heating up with a campaign finance investigation also in play.
Progressive activist Jackie Fielder and former tech executive Trevor Chandler released fundraising statements within days of each other last week — both aiming to position themselves as front-runners for District 9, which includes the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods.
Fielder, who most recently ran an unsuccessful campaign to unseat state Sen. Scott Wiener, is currently the fundraising leader with $52,000 as of June 27 and said she has committed to $255,000 in public funding qualified. In a July 1 statement, Chandler boasted of $53,649 in donations and expected public funding of $179,315.
District 9 incumbent Hillary Ronen is retiring in 2024, filling a seat that has leaned reliably progressive since the city reinstated district elections in 2000.
