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Dustin Gardiner

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Senior politics reporter at The San Francisco Standard, @SFStandard. Priors: @POLITICO, @sfchronicle, @azcentral. Fan of trails & mountains. 🏔🏳️‍🌈DMs open.
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Dustin Gardiner @dustingardiner
ICYMI in Power Play:
—A seven-figure ad blitz hypes Gavin Newsom's move to clear death row

—What Scott Wiener told Connie Chan when she called to concede

—Neighbors for a Better SF closes its PAC

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sfstandard.com Newsom empties death row, and a $1 million ad blitz follows Plus: Melgar in hot water after cutting off speaker, Neighbors for a Better San Francisco shuts down its PAC, and what Wiener told Chan when she called to concede.
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Dustin Gardiner @dustingardiner
How did Scott Wiener build such a formidable lead?

He cut into Connie Chan's support in progressive-leaning areas like Haight Ashbury, Bernal Heights, the Mission. He's also leading Chan in her own district, the Richmond

sfstandard.com/2026/11/04/sco… w/ @FitzTheReporter @chrisarvinsf
sfstandard.com How Scott Wiener built a lead over Connie Chan she’s unlikely to reverse Wiener, who is part of San Francisco’s moderate Democrat coalition, built support in neighborhoods that traditionally vote for progressives.
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