Update at the bottom:
The polls in California have officially closed, and now voters and candidates wait. The San Francisco Elections Department said results could come as early as 8:30 p.m.
A crowd of people gathered at the University of San Francisco where
students, faculty, and whoever else felt like stopping in are eagerly
awaiting state and local election returns.
Like any shindig that
starts at 8, election parties across the city are so far quiet and
mellow; In District 1, the scene at David Lee's campaign headquarters is super laid
back, with a few volunteers hanging out, chowing down on pizza.
Mitt Romney hasn't yet conceded, but ... it's safe to say Barack Obama will grace America with another four years as our leader. According to news outlets everywhere, Obama was reelected president after winning the battleground state of Ohio.
While Romney was looking for his concession speech that he supposedly never wrote, Obama campaign immediately tweeted out a big thank-you to his supporters.
A Mimosa-imbibing man was declared innocent of battery charges today after a jury saw a video that proved the man hadn't attacked a Castro Street merchant after downing one too many cocktails earlier this year.
According to the Public Defender's Office, 23-year-old Antonio Herico had been at a bottomless Mimosa brunch at a restaurant in the Castro where he consumed too many champagne drinks too quickly. Afterward, the City College student was walking with a friend past the Industrialists furnishing store at Market and Sanchez when he began puking -- appropriately enough -- underneath the store's sign that read:
"TAKE A DUMP HERE YOU WILL LIVE BUT LIVE TO REGRET IT."
San Francisco police are asking for the public's help in locating a 82-year-old man who went missing Sunday morning.
According to police, Hong Xin Li left his home in the Bayview about 9:30 a.m. to take a walk around the neighborhood, but never returned.
Politicians of all stripes are wont to say that you can't solve a problem by throwing money at it. This year, however -- nationwide and particularly here in San Francisco -- the key to victory seems to be hurling about large sums of money.
As SF Weekly wrote yesterday, proponents of the $195 million parks bond have outspent their foes by a 100-to-1 ratio. Metric shitloads of cash have been spent on behalf of David Lee's campaign to unseat Eric Mar and large amounts of dinero have been mounted in favor of Mike Garcia and against Supervisor Christina Olague, to name a few.
The multi-million-dollar question is, does it work? Will unprecedented infusions of campaign money benefit the folks spending like a junkie with eight girlfriends?
"I don't know, babe!" says former Mayor Art Agnos. "There have been big spenders in the past, primarily the real estate industry. But we've never seen it like this before."
See also: David Lee's Armada of Soft Money
Parks Bond Proponents Outspend Foes By 100-to-1 Ratio
Medical authorities have identified the man who was gunned down over the weekend as 20-year-old Tyrice Lane, a San Francisco resident.
On Friday about 10:26 p.m., police responded to a shot spotter
activation on the 1000 block of Mendell. When officers arrived, they
found Lane, who had been shot in the chest.
See also: Violent Weekend in San Francisco: Four Killed, Elderly Woman Beaten
More gunfire plagued the Mission neighborhood last night as police were making a routine stop.
According to police, the incident happened about 7:51 p.m. after the cops parked a SFPD wagon on the intersection of 16th Street and Weiss Alley. The officers were standing by the wagon, handling a call for service, when one shot was fired at the vehicle, according to police reports.
We already know how Bay Area dogs feel about Mitt Romney, but nobody considered the cat vote until now.
NBC brings this phenomenal election report about Mr. Nuts, a Fremont feline who took a dump on Mitt Romney, thus predicting Obama's victory tonight. The cat's owner, Michael Ostrofsky, gave Mr. Nuts his own ballot by setting up two litter boxes -- one on the left for President
Barack Obama, and one on the right for the Republican nominee.
See also: Good Dog, Bad Romney: PAC of Pooches to Protest Republican Candidate This Weekend
So you've voted today. Now what? It's a long day of waiting to see how all those negative ads paid off.
Thankfully, the Obama campaign has devised this weird app that'll help us all pass time while waiting for election results to come in tonight (and for your opponent to make their Words with Friends move). Not to mention, it will give you some useless insight about how civic-minded people with your name are.
