Progressives tout unity amid moderate infighting

San Francisco moderates are angry, and progressives are loving it.

As they gathered at the edge of the Panhandle for a “unity” rally on Saturday, a crowd of progressive supporters and candidates were confident their message was peeking through the cacophony of ads and mailers funded by well-heeled candidates typically considered “moderate” by San Francisco political definitions.

The moderate candidates, progressives increasingly say, are spending so much time and energy sideswiping one another that sole progressive candidate and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin could rise above the fray and become The City’s next mayor.

“When I embarked with so many of you [at a campaign launch rally] in Portsmouth Square on this journey, the narrative was that the progressives were divided and the moderates were united, and today it is exactly the opposite,” Peskin told supporters. “Every day [there is] more billionaire on billionaire violence [as] they're fighting amongst themselves as to who should control The City.”


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