Jeff Sheehy

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Jeff Sheehy
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Prior offices
San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 8
Successor: Rafael Mandelman
Predecessor: Scott Wiener

Education

Bachelor's

University of Texas, Austin

Personal
Profession
Communications director, AIDS Research Institute
Contact

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Jeff Sheehy is the former District 8 representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in California. He was appointed by Mayor Ed Lee in January 2017 to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Scott Wiener for the California State Senate and sworn in to office on January 8, 2017.[1][2] Sheehy lost a re-election campaign in the special election on June 5, 2018.

Although elections for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are officially nonpartisan, Sheehy is known to be affiliated with the Democratic Party. He has served as president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and a member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee.[1]

Biography

Sheehy earned a B.A. in history from the University of Texas, Austin.[3]

As of his appointment to the board of supervisors in 2017, Sheehy was the communications director for the AIDS Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. His experience also includes work as an HIV/AIDS advisor to then-Mayor Gavin Newsom and a victims' advocate in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.[4][5]

Elections

2018

See also: Municipal elections in San Francisco, California (2018)
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8 Special Election, 2018
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Rafael Mandelman 60.46% 12,547
Jeff Sheehy Incumbent 37.61% 7,804
Lawrence Dagesse 1.93% 401
Total Votes 20,752
Source: San Francisco Department of ElectionsThese election results are unofficial and will be updated after official vote totals are made available.

Endorsements

Campaign finance

The figures in the tables below were from reports submitted by the candidates for 2017. They are reproduced below as presented by the candidates in their report summaries.[10]

San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 8, Special Election
Candidate Total contributions received Total expenditures made Ending cash balance
Jeff Sheehy (i) $182,435.91 $116,942.62 $71,238.19
Rafael Mandelman $165,482.39 $135,625.41 $32,683.53
Lawrence Dagesse $0.00 $0.00 $0.00


Campaign themes

2018

San Francisco Bay Times questionnaire

The San Francisco Bay Times asked Sheehy for his positions on multiple issues facing the 8th District. Click "show" on the boxes below to view Sheehy's responses to select questions from the Bay Times' questionnaire. To view his responses to all of the questions, click here.




Biographical information submission

The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:

What is your political philosophy?

I’m honored to represent District 8 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. As a father and husband, a healthcare activist and a pioneer for LGBT equality, I have spent my life fighting to protect vulnerable communities and serving others.

I am proud to be the only candidate in the race endorsed by Senator Scott Wiener and the only San Francisco candidate in the June election endorsed by Gavin Newsom. I am also honored to be endorsed by Mayor Mark Farrell, San Francisco Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu, Assessor Carmen Chu, our city’s first responders, the Firefighters and POA, the Building Trades and Equality California.

In just the past year as District 8 Supervisor, I have fought every day to make San Francisco a “City For All”, including: Creating the “Housing For All” initiative to build affordable, middle-income and teacher housing and end homelessness. Initiating foot patrols in the Castro and around the District. Increasing safety around Dolores Park by adding patrols, lighting and security cameras. Banning bicycle chop shops on San Francisco sidewalks Installing speed bumps, stop signs, crosswalks and added traffic officers in Diamond Heights and Glen Park. Stopping monster homes in Corona Heights Activating Town Square in Noe Valley to help local businesses and provide family-friendly entertainment. Fighting Trump Administration attacks on health care and immigrants

My “Housing For All” legislation will generate $1 billion over ten years from a tax on downtown skyscrapers’ commercial rents to create affordable housing and end homelessness with:

$450 million for expanding access to housing and expanded mental health and drug treatment programs so that those who are so obviously ill don’t slowly die on our streets. With this funding, San Francisco will be able to house 23,000 people with compassion and care. $350 million is dedicated to create housing for teachers, nurses, firefighters, and other middle-income individuals and families. Every fall, fewer teachers are in place at the start of the school year in my daughter’s school. We need to make it affordable for teachers to live here and our first responders need to be here in the City in the event of a disaster. We also have targeted $100 million to create senior housing to support our city's aging population.

I also recently introduced legislation entitled, “Breaking the Cycle”, to make sure homeless people who we are treated for mental health and substance use issues get housing when they finish their programs and don’t end up turned back out onto the streets without a place to live.

Prior to becoming Supervisor, I served as Mayor Gavin Newsom’s AIDS Czar. I also worked to create and defend San Francisco’s historic Equal Benefits Ordinance making San Francisco the first city in the United States to require all city contractors to offer domestic partner benefits.

I live in the Glen Park neighborhood with my husband, Billy, and my 13-year-old daughter, Michelle, who attends a public middle school.[11]

—Jeff Sheehy[12]

2017

According to SF Gate, one of Sheehy's goals for his tenure on the board of supervisors was to reduce the incidence of car break-ins in the city. He said, "Why I want to serve is not for grandiose purposes, but as the mayor said, to take care of people's problems, and where there is broader policy that will make things better for the people in my district, then to advance those."[1]

See also

San Francisco, California California Municipal government Other local coverage
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External links

Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Scott Wiener
San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8
2017-2018
Succeeded by
Rafael Mandelman