{"id":434928,"date":"2026-08-17T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434928\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:46:08","slug":"the-barely-watched-sf-race-bringing-in-eye-watering-amounts-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/434928\/","title":{"rendered":"The barely watched SF race bringing in eye-watering amounts of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribersPublished Aug. 16, 2026at6:00pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Advocacy group GrowSF is about to spend more backing its endorsed candidates for the Board of Education than any outside group before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Teacher\u2019s pet!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The group has committed to spending a chalkboard-screeching six figures <a href=\"https:\/\/growsf.org\/voter-guide\/#board-of-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">to back  (opens in new tab)<\/a>incumbent Phil Kim, Autumn Brown Garibay, and Tim Tung. (All are moderate Democrats, of course \u2014 GrowSF\u2019s usual persuasion.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The group declined to share an exact figure, citing a desire not to fully tip off political opponents. But the previous levels of spending they said they\u2019d exceed would buy a lot of school raffle tickets already: In June, candidate Brandee Marckmann spent $136,000 of her own money, according to the San Francisco Ethics Commission. GrowSF spent $220,000 on Kim in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For subscribersPublished Aug. 16, 2026at6:00pm Advocacy group GrowSF is about to spend more backing its endorsed candidates for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[380,27851,8670,41358,59978,101,103,102,104,106,105,1694,5476],"class_list":["post-434928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-affordable-housing","tag-board-of-education","tag-connie-chan","tag-growsf","tag-ro-khanna","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-taxes","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434928","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=434928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}