District 11 Congressional Seat
CSF Recommendation:
Marie Hurabiell
Marie Hurabiell is a multi-generation San Franciscan whose deep roots in the city have shaped her activism and civic leadership. Born and raised in San Francisco, Marie has spent decades engaging with local politics, law and community affairs, first as a practicing attorney and later as a community organizer and civic advocate. Throughout her career, Marie has emphasized government accountability, neighborhood empowerment and citizen-led solutions to longstanding challenges facing the city.
Marie is a doer. Marie is best known as the founder and Executive Director of ConnectedSF, a civic engagement organization. ConnectedSF grew out of her observation that there was a growing disconnect between the decisions being made at City Hall and the priorities of everyday San Franciscans, especially around issues like public safety, housing policy, government spending and other quality-of-life issues. By creating a centralized hub for civic participation and neighborhood coordination, she has worked to make engagement in local politics accessible, actionable and responsive to the real concerns of families and businesses.
Marie is a visionary. A key focus of Marie’s work has been articulating the concept of what some describe as city-caused problems: conditions that stem directly from policy choices, budget decisions or administrative actions by the city government that residents see as contributing to their deteriorating quality of life. This includes rising crime and public safety concerns, the city’s sprawling budget that appears misaligned with current demographic and economic realities and burdensome regulations that impact housing, transportation and neighborhood vibrancy. In her writing and public commentary, Marie has argued that many of these challenges are not inevitable but are instead the result of governance decisions that have not sufficiently centered the needs and voices of residents. She’s called for a recalibration of priorities, so that public servants work for the people rather than being isolated in bureaucratic silos.
Marie is a community leader. Under her leadership, ConnectedSF has built a coalition of more than 13,000 neighbors across all 11 supervisorial districts, empowering hyper-local neighborhood groups to tackle issues directly and collectively. These groups operate as grassroots forums where residents identify problems, mobilize around common goals and communicate directly with city officials. The result has been a more distributed model of civic activism, one that harnesses everyday experience rather than relying solely on top-down policymaking. ConnectedSF has supported community efforts on public safety initiatives, educational accountability and economic revitalization through events, campaigns, surveys and coordinated communications with local leaders.
Marie is a collaborator.
In total, Marie Hurabiell’s contributions reflect a vision of San Francisco, where informed residents, empowered neighborhoods and accountable institutions work together to build a more functional and equitable city. Through ConnectedSF, she championed civic engagement as the cornerstone of effective urban governance.
Marie is a MODERATE. Let’s send this homegrown, pragmatic, problem-solving fighter for San Francisco to Washington!
Vote for Marie Hurabiell
Not Endorsed
Scott Weiner: NO. No More Excuses.
We strongly oppose sending Scott Wiener to Congress. California cannot afford to elevate a legislator whose record reflects ideological extremism over practical governance.
Since 2016, Wiener has authored dozens upon dozens of bills driven by knee-jerk reaction rather than careful, measured policymaking. Volume is not a virtue. Time and again, Wiener’s legislation prioritizes headlines over balance, sacrificing nuance and serious consideration of the unintended consequences. The result? Policies that frequently create new problems while claiming to solve old ones.
With each legislative session, his positions have moved further from the mainstream. He does not govern as a moderate, and he consistently eschews the concerns of families, parents and public safety advocates in his district.
His record reveals a clear pattern: reducing criminal penalties, expanding drug decriminalization and advancing policies that many believe undermine protections for children, teens, women and neighborhoods. At the same time, he has declined to support legislation that would strengthen accountability and public safety.
This is not the leadership San Francisco and California needs in Washington.
We urge voters to examine his full legislative record carefully, not just the press releases. This article encapsulates many of the serious issues we have with Scott’s legislative work. If anyone is wondering why we don’t consider him to be a “moderate,” this is why.
The stakes are too high to reward this candidate with a seat in the US Congress.
https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/legislation
Below is a list of State Senate and Assembly bills that Weiner voted for and/or sponsored:
SB 57 (2021) Authorizes safe consumption sites.
SB 58 (2023) Decriminalizes certain psychedelics.
Vetoed by Governor Newsome
SB 73 (2021) Repeals key drug mandatory minimums. (Weiner also has supported broader sentencing reductions.
SB 107 (2022) Makes California a sanctuary state for minors seeking gender-related medical interventions, limiting cooperation with out-of-state parental protections. This has undermined parent’s rights and forced the state into deeply personal medical decisions involving children. It also has resulted in an increase in teen trafficking.
SB132 (2020) Allows biological and intact males in women’s prisons, resulting in the rape of women inmates.
SB145 (2020) Pushes for “parity” in type of sex offense and allows for sex offenders to potentially avoid registry, if sex is with a minor within a 10-year age gap
SB239 (2017) Changed knowingly transmitting HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor
SB357 (2022) Decriminalized loitering, protecting pimps, and enabling sex trafficking. Increased trafficking of women and teens and makes it more difficult to protect sex trafficking victims.
SB1414 (2024) Increased penalties for soliciting a minor for sex from a misdemeanor to a felony. This bill initially covered all minors up to age 17, but because Weiner did not support the original version, the final version now only protects minors up to 15 years of age, leaving soliciting sex from 16- and 17-year-olds as a misdemeanor.
AB1028 (2023) Supported ending mandated reporting of abuse of women unless the abuse was with a gun. (Thankfully, this did not pass.)
These following are critical public safety bills introduced by other legislators that Wiener actively blocked. (Fortunately, none of them passed).
AB367 (2022) Failed to support sentencing enhancements for killing/harming by fentanyl.
AB955 (2022) Failed to support increasing penalties for fentanyl sales over social media.
AB1058 (2022) Weiner voted against increasing penalties for possessing large quantities of fentanyl.
He also backed Prop 47 (2014), which downgraded serious theft and drug crimes to misdemeanors, creating a wave of organized retail theft, drug abuse and criminals who walk free within hours of being arrested. He then opposed Prop 36 (2024), which 70% of voters statewide passed to correct this public safety disaster.
As a state senator, Weiner is one of the most extreme legislators in California, doing his best to chip away at parental rights, erode women’s rights and support pro-crime legislation.
Connie Chan: Just NO.
We have never endorsed this progressive candidate, and we are not about to start now. This incumbent has a track record of ineffectiveness and unresponsiveness to the residents in her district. Chan opposed both the Board of Education and the Chesa Boudin recalls. Her anti-public safety stances include defunding and dismantling the SFPD, as well as voting for the premature re-appointment of an anti-law enforcement police commissioner. She is one of the progressive candidates on our Board of Supervisors who fails to prioritize public safety or the drug/homelessness crises, all while working diligently on behalf of the unions that support her. Chan would be an ineffective anti-public safety congresswoman bought and paid for by that select few. Once again (and we hope for the last time), we will not be endorsing her brand of union-owned, progressive incompetence.
Saikat Chakrabarti: Please NO.
This candidate for Congress has a background in technology, policy and government operations and is just another guy who has become insanely wealthy yet pretends to be an “everyman.’ His policies, conversely, are far from any that benefit the “everyman.” It looks more to us like Chakrabarti has joined the haters of the wealthiest San Franciscans only after becoming wealthy himself. After benefiting from an era of opportunity, lower barriers to entrepreneurship, more flexible markets and unhindered pathways to build wealth, he now advocates for regulations, taxes or restrictions to close the same doors that were open for him. “Yes for me, but not for thee” seems to be the theme of these multi-millionaire candidates, and it is a worrisome philosophy by any objective standard.
As if that was not enough of a turn-off, from what we can unearth, Chakrabarti has only been living in San Francisco full-time since 2019; his primary residence is in Maryland. We are skeptical that anyone living here for only about five years can genuinely and effectively represent D11 voters. His experience working for AOC seems like an incongruous fit for a “Nancy Pelosi” town. City Journal called him a “progressive on a mission,” and that mission includes abolishing ICE, supporting a billionaire tax and national public banks, imposing aggressive federal strategies for housing and health care and promoting structural shifts in democratic representation, all of which are rooted in progressive policy circles, not grounded in political or fiscal realities.
Chakrabarti is, impossibly, even more progressive than Chan. So, if you’re looking for a Bernie Sanders/AOC protégé who has barely lived in San Francisco to represent your interests in Washington, ask yourself why...and then find yourself a different voter guide.