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McCoy has been the campaign manager for Pelosi\u2019s Save Our Healthcare initiative since January 2025. He has also been a consultant for her PAC To The Future committee, a political director for her campaign committee, and was vice president of a mental-health and substance-abuse treatment provider HealthRight 360, among other positions.<\/p>\n
McCoy has also served as policy and community affairs manager at the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department, chief of staff to former Supervisor Julie Christensen, campaign manager and legislative aide for former Supervisor Scott Wiener, and legislative aide to former Supervisor London Breed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not running on theory,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cI\u2019m running on an actual track record with proven experience through 15 years of work in public service, from City Hall to Sacramento to the halls of Congress to city departments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m ready to hit the ground running on day one,\u201d he said. \u201cExperience matters, especially right now in our comeback in San Francisco. It\u2019s not the time to be learning on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more than four years, McCoy was also an appointed member of the California Homeless Coordinating & Financing Council.<\/p>\n
A past president of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club and the Harvey Milk LGTBQ Democratic Club, McCoy promises to support more housing creation, cut city red tape and costs for businesses, and support funding for the SFMTA\u2019s Muni service.<\/p>\n
McCoy said he wants to find incentives for vacant storefronts to get filled, even on a temporary basis. He wants to protect rent control and expand the number of rent-controlled apartments.<\/p>\n
In addition, McCoy said he wants to increase safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. He is a past member of the SFMTA\u2019s pedestrian-safety advisory committee.<\/p>\n
Born and raised in Norfolk, Va., McCoy said he left as soon \u201cas I could.\u201d He said he came to San Francisco to work in radio, but addiction led him to homelessness.<\/p>\n
McCoy, who\u00a0has lived with HIV for more than 20 years.\u00a0said he got sober 15 years ago. He expressed gratitude for the subsidized housing he got in the Castro area, where he felt comfortable as a gay man.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a fighter,\u201d he said. \u201cI was a fighter when I was on the streets, and I was a fighter for my recovery and sobriety, and will be a fighter for District 8.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Nguyen<\/p>\n
Also in the race is Nguyen, a patent attorney with an alter ego named \u201cJuicy Liu,\u201d who said he will celebrate 20 years in The City in August.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a drag queen, I\u2019m a lawyer, a community organizer, and activist,\u201d Nguyen said. \u201cCode switching is my superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n
A self-described progressive, Nguyen won a seat on the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee in 2024 on the Labor and Working Families slate as a first-time candidate. He filed to run for supervisor in October.<\/p>\n
Nguyen said he is a child of refugees from Vietnam who grew up in Texas and that he came to San Francisco to study law. He has been active since then in numerous organizations, including what is now known as the GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, and is the president of the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys.<\/p>\n
After multiple crimes against Asians locally and elsewhere in the wake of COVID-19, Nguyen in 2021 helped organize the LGBTQ March for Asian Lives, in which more than 1,000 people marched from the Castro to City Hall.<\/p>\n
Nguyen vowed to make the lack of affordability in The City a top priority \u2014 particularly concerning housing \u2014 and he asked whether the minimum wage can be raised, rent control can be expanded, Muni can be made free for people under the age of 26, and child care could be free.<\/p>\n
Nguyen was disappointed that voters earlier this month rejected Proposition D, a union-backed ballot measure that would have increased a city tax on companies at which executives are paid more than 100 times what their median workers receive.<\/p>\n
He said he would like to see a public bank established, and that he supports the proposed Affordable Housing Guarantee Act \u2014 which would\u00a0dedicate city transfer taxes to affordable housing \u2014 that activists are now trying to qualify for the November ballot.<\/p>\n
Nguyen described Yekutiel\u2019s proposals for housing development as \u201cvery extreme.\u201d He said he opposed Lurie\u2019s recently approved Family Zoning plan, which provided for denser development in parts of The City to meet state mandates, in part because he did not think there were adequate protections against demolition of rent-controlled apartments.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be a rubber stamp to any mayor\u2019s agenda,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race for supervisor in San Francisco\u2019s District 8 has drawn competition from several candidates, all of whom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[147960,147957,147958,147959,8669,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-364403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-darshini-patel","tag-emanuel-manny-yekutiel","tag-gary-mccoy","tag-michael-nguyen","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364403","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=364403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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