{"id":356740,"date":"2026-06-11T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T20:31:13","slug":"brooke-drops-out-of-november-d2-race-clearing-sherrills-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356740\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke drops out of November D2 race, clearing Sherrill\u2019s path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lori Brooke, the No. 2 vote-getter in the June 2 election, has decided not to run for District 2 supervisor again in November. Stephen Sherrill<\/a> is likely to face no serious opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I will not be a candidate in November, I am not going anywhere,\u201d Brooke wrote in a statement, saying she was proud of the campaign she ran. \u201cI will continue to advocate for my community, support the issues I care about, and remain engaged in the neighborhoods that I have spent years working to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brooke was Sherrill\u2019s only opponent in June, but she lost 69-31. The race was a special election, so Sherrill must win again on November 3 to get a full four-year term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brooke, a longtime community organizer in the district, pitched herself as an independent voice who would be responsive to constituents, particularly on housing<\/a>. While Sherrill is generally aligned with pro-housing YIMBYs, Brooke is skeptical of new development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Sherrill had much more money backing him \u2014 about $1.4 million, including from third-party PACs \u2014 and had developed a reputation for competence as sitting supervisor. He allied himself closely with the Mayor Daniel Lurie and, in the end, notched a decisive victory<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDistrict 2 made it clear that they want a Supervisor who is focused, responsive, and committed to San Francisco\u2019s comeback,\u201d Sherrill said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to get back to work and, hopefully, earn four more years this November.\u201d<\/p>\n

The field is likely cleared for Sherrill to sweep that election \u2014 the remaining candidates are not well-positioned to give him a fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One, Nicholas Berg, is the chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party. \u201cOne-party rule gave San Francisco lousy results,\u201d he says on his website<\/a>. Only 10 percent of District 2 voters are registered Republicans, and 62 percent are Democrats; he is unlikely to make any inroads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another candidate, Guy McCoy, styled himself a longshot mayoral candidate<\/a> in 2024 but\u00a0did not get a single vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third challenger, Monthanus Ratanapakdee, ran a write-in campaign for June\u2019s seat and has received 13 votes so far (the final vote total has yet to be released).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The killing of her elderly father, Vicha Ratanapakdee, became a national outrage during the post-pandemic years. He was pushed to the ground by 19-year-old Antoine Watson in 2021, hit his head and died a few days later. The case became highly publicized as a part of the Stop Asian Hate movement, and Watson was found guilty<\/a> of involuntary manslaughter this January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ratanapakdee has spun up a campaign website<\/a> where she says that her top priorities are public safety and cleanliness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sherrill had some $166,000 in the bank for the November race as of May 27, according to campaign finance filings. No other candidate had declared any money raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lori Brooke, the No. 2 vote-getter in the June 2 election, has decided not to run for District…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[12497,35072,101,103,102,104,106,105,9531],"class_list":["post-356740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-district-2","tag-election-2026","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-stephen-sherrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356740","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=356740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}