{"id":326093,"date":"2026-05-21T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:29:13","slug":"san-francsico-supervisors-wong-sherrill-backed-by-anti-worker-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326093\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francsico supervisors Wong, Sherrill backed by anti-worker PAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new political action committee active in lobbying<\/a> against pro-worker state bills is turning towards San Francisco: The group is spending handsomely<\/a> to back supervisors Alan Wong and Stephen Sherrill in their June races.<\/p>\n

As of May 20, the PAC, the political arm of the statewide group California Alliance of Family-Owned Businesses<\/a>, has spent $66,000 to boost Wong in District 4 and another $52,000 for Sherrill in District 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The committee can take in and spend unlimited amounts in support of its favored candidates. California Alliance of Family-Owned Businesses was created in 2024<\/a> to advocate for business owners who operate franchises like McDonald\u2019s, according to its website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The PAC\u2019s top donors are franchise groups across California, including one<\/a> that runs about a dozen McDonald\u2019s stores in Central Valley, and two others that operate McDonald\u2019s locations near Los Angeles and in Palm Desert.\u00a0The group was formed by such franchisees, specifically those who fought<\/a> a California law that increased the state minimum wage<\/a> for fast-food chain restaurants to $20 in 2024.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the California Alliance group objected<\/a> to the Know Your Rights Act<\/a>, which requires employers to give workers written notice of their rights. The organization also opposed<\/a> a bill to limit workplace surveillance<\/a>, and another<\/a> that allows employees up to five unpaid days to attend immigration appointments<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wong, who touts his experience as a labor organizer<\/a> and received backing from the construction trades<\/a>, is now backed by a group that has rallied against worker protections and wage increases. Candidates have no controls over independent expenditure committees and are not allowed to coordinate with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wong and his campaign did not respond to requests for comment, but Wong has addressed third-party PAC spending on his behalf in the past<\/a>: He is also benefiting from $881,000 PAC support<\/a>, including from a group of Mayor Daniel Lurie allies<\/a> that took a quarter-million check from a MAGA megadonor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of interest in the outside independent expenditures,\u201d Wong said when asked about PAC spending at a Mission Local forum<\/a> back in April. \u201cI encourage people to look at my record of service rather than who they see as outside spenders.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say that Alan has broken away from seeking union support,\u201d said Kim Tavaglione, executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council. The council endorsed Natalie Gee<\/a>, one of Wong\u2019s opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tavaglione had nothing to say about Sherrill; labor unions are not involved in the District 2 race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sherrill\u2019s campaign pointed to his union backing from SEIU 87, the firefighters union, Teamsters and the Building and Construction Trades Council. \u201cBy law, the campaign has no connection to these independent expenditures,\u201d the campaign wrote in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least part of the group\u2019s spending was for two 15-second social media videos<\/a> promoting Wong and Sherrill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The one for Wong opens with a photo of him<\/a> as a teenager with a voiceover. \u201cHe knows our community and has served the Sunset his entire life,\u201d the narrator said. \u201cAs supervisor, he is working to help small businesses and keep our streets safe and clean.\u201d<\/p>\n

A similar video for Sherrill<\/a> said, \u201cSupervisor Sherrill knows that a city that gets the basics right is a city that thrives,\u201d the narrator said. \u201cFor him, no problem is too big, and no task is too small.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wong gained major labor support in 2024<\/a> when he ran for re-election to the City College Board, including from the San Francisco Labor Council, SEIU Local 1021 and others. This, however, didn\u2019t portend that Wong would do well with labor today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his present bid to retain his supervisor seat, Wong\u2019s labor backing is much spottier, although he has received endorsements from the Teamsters, SEIU 2015 and other building trades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The California Alliance of Family Owned Businesses has funded other PACs across the state<\/a>, including in the Bay Area, to back local candidates before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group in 2024 put $800,000 into a PAC named A Better Bay Area<\/a> that mostly supported candidates in Oakland and San Jose, including spending about $89,000 to boost Oakland mayoral candidate Loren Taylor against Barbara Lee. It gave $5,000 in 2024 to an independent expenditure committee supporting Daniel Lurie<\/a> and $500 to District 9 also-ran Trevor Chandler\u2019s campaign<\/a>, but both were voided.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It has given to both Republicans and Democrats<\/a> in previous elections \u2014 it contributed $100,000 to the California Republican Party in 2024, but also $95,000 to the California Democratic Party.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new political action committee active in lobbying against pro-worker state bills is turning towards San Francisco: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[12497,35072,989,101,103,102,104,106,105,18069],"class_list":["post-326093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-district-2","tag-election-2026","tag-elections","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}