With roughly 49% of votes counted as of early Wednesday morning following the June 2 primary, Wienerled decisivelywith 41.3%, ahead of Pelosi-endorsed San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan at 28.6%, and former AOC chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti trailing behind in third place.
Under California’s top-two primary system, Wiener will advance to face Chan, or whoever ultimately finishes second, in November.
The district is so heavily blue that Weiner will likely win the fall election.
Pelosi had endorsed Chan just weeks before the primary, calling her a trusted ally who knows the district and Congress.
Wiener, a 56-year-old openly gay Harvard Law graduate and former San Francisco supervisor, has built a reputation as one of California’s most extreme politicians.
Wiener’s record is packed with legislation that has drawn intense backlash from conservatives, law enforcement, parents, women’s rights advocates, and even some moderate Democrats in San Francisco.
Among the most controversial isSenate Bill 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which he authored and which Governor Gavin Newsom signed in 2020.
The law requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house transgender, non-binary, and intersex inmates according to their self-identified “gender identity,” or wherever they say they “feel safest,” rather than biological sex, and mandates that staff use preferred pronouns and honorifics.
Female inmates, women’s safety groups, and anyone with common sense argue this law endangers biological women by allowing male individuals into female prisons and showers, potentially increasing assault risks, while Wiener has defended it as protecting “vulnerable transgender” inmates from “violence.”
Wiener also authoredSenate Bill 239in 2017, which dramatically weakened California’s HIV criminalization laws from the 1980s and 1990s.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
