Gordon Mar

He was Executive Director of Jobs with Justice San Francisco and the Chinese Progressive Association.{{cite news|last1=Joshua|first1=Sabatini|date=November 8, 2018|title=Gordon Mar declares victory in District 4 supervisor race|agency=San Francisco Examiner|url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/jessica-ho-concedes-gordon-mar-district-4s-supervisor-race/}}{{cite web|title=District 4 | Board of Supervisors|url=https://sfbos.org/supervisor-mar-district-4|website=San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 4, Gordon Mar}}

After incumbent District 4 Supervisor Katy Tang declined to run for re-election in 2018, Mar filed papers to run for the District 4 seat in the November election. In the months leading up to the race, the campaigns of both Mar and his primary opponent, Jessica Ho, were criticized for "mudslinging" tactics. A Mar campaign staffer was caught tearing down a poster for Ho.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/In-SF-s-Sunset-paid-campaign-staffer-tears-13346224.php|title=In SF's Sunset, paid campaign staffer tears down opposition's poster|date=2018-10-29|website=SFChronicle.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-25}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Mudslinging-race-for-supervisor-from-Sunset-13352826.php|title=Mudslinging race for supervisor from Sunset distracts voters from issues|date=2018-10-31|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-25 |last1=Thadani |first1=By Trisha }}

Mar was elected supervisor for District 4 on November 6, 2018, receiving 10,314 first preference votes (36.29 percent of all valid votes).{{sfn|SF Elections|2018a}} After allocation of preferences from eliminated candidates in San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system, Mar received 56.84 percent of final-round votes, compared to 43.16 percent for runner-up Jessica Ho, an aide to the incumbent supervisor Katy Tang.{{cn|date=February 2022}}

Mar led negotiations with San Francisco Mayor London Breed to fully fund City College of San Francisco's free tuition program for ten years beginning in 2019,{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/deal-reached-to-fund-free-city-college-withdraw-ballot-measure/|title=Deal reached to fund Free City College, withdraw ballot measure|date=2019-05-23|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-25}} and negotiated a deal to provide full reserve funding for raises for San Francisco Unified School District educators.{{Cite web|url=https://missionlocal.org/2019/02/san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-advances-consensus-plan-to-spend-185-million-in-windfall-funds/|title=SF Board of Supervisors advances consensus plan to spend $185 million in 'windfall' funds|date=2019-02-06|website=Mission Local|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-25}}

Mar has called on SFPD to release aggregated demographic data on Asian-American crime victims, following an increase in hate crimes in San Francisco and several high-profile attacks on members of the Chinese community,{{Cite web|date=2019-07-30|title=Rising fear of crime in Chinese community prompts legislative action|url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/rising-fear-of-crime-in-chinese-community-prompts-legislative-action/|access-date=2019-09-25|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en-US}} and announced legislation requiring this data to be released annually.

Mar is the author of a number of ordinances reforming San Francisco's electoral system and addressing money in politics, including 2019's Proposition F{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=June 18, 2019|title=Proposition F Submittal Form|url=https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/20190618_ProhibitingCertainCampaignContributions.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=San Francisco Department of Elections}} addressing pay-to-play politics, corporate contributions, and dark-money donations, and Public Financing 2.0, which tripled the impact of San Francisco's public financing program for elections.{{Cite web|date=2019-09-17|title=Supervisors Triple Matching Rate For Public Campaign Funds - September 17, 2019|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/news/supervisors-triple-matching-rate-for-public-campaign-funds/|access-date=2019-09-25|website=SF Weekly|language=en-US}}

In November 2022, Mar lost his bid for re-election to Joel Engardio.{{Cite web |last=Morris |first=J.D. |date=November 16, 2022 |title=Moderate Joel Engardio unseats progressive S.F. Supervisor Gordon Mar |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Moderate-Joel-Engardio-unseats-progressive-S-F-17590573.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410152555/https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Moderate-Joel-Engardio-unseats-progressive-S-F-17590573.php |archive-date=April 10, 2024 |access-date=July 4, 2024 |website=sfchronicle.com}} With the redistricting process, Engardio was eligible to run in District 4 after running and losing three prior campaigns for Supervisor in District 7.Joel Engardio With this loss, Mar became the first elected Supervisor in the ranked-choice era to lose their reelection bid. {{Cite web |date=2022-11-17 |title=Incumbent SF supervisor Gordon Mar concedes to Joel Engardio in Sunset District race - CBS San Francisco |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sfbos-incumbent-gordon-mar-concedes-joel-engardio-d4-sunset-district-westside/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}

Mar spearheaded multiple Board of Supervisors resolutions which denounced California State Senator Scott Weiner's SB 50 bill, which would have legalized higher density housing development in areas close to public transit.{{Cite web|url=https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/6/20998566/sb50-2020-mar-gentrifiation-disapproval-vote-housing-wiener|title=California transit-housing bill trashed in SF ahead of new push|last=Brinklow|first=Adam|date=2019-12-06|website=Curbed SF|language=en|access-date=2019-12-25}} When asked to explain why he voted to block the construction of a 495-unit apartment complex (with 25% affordable housing) on a Nordstrom's valet parking lot in the South of Market neighborhood, Mar said there was an abundance of available "luxury units" in the neighborhood and families "can check Craigslist today" to find housing.{{Cite news|last=Knight|first=Heather|date=2021-10-30|title=S.F.'s real housing crisis: Supervisors who took a wrecking ball to plans for 800 units|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-F-supervisors-complain-about-our-housing-16576412.php|access-date=2021-10-31|website=San Francisco Chronicle|language=en-US}}

Mar opposes building a Navigation Center in District 4.{{Cite news|date=2018-10-16|title=SF District Four supervisor hopefuls agree on issues, not priorities|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-District-Four-13294111.php|access-date=2019-12-25|website=San Francisco Chronicle |last1=Thadani |first1=By Trisha }}

When asked to comment on legislation that would permit construction of fourplexes across the city, Mar said "a modest density increase to single-family zoning is certainly worth considering" in San Francisco but did not specify further.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-23|title=San Francisco is one of California's most conservative cities - when it comes to housing|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/San-Francisco-is-one-of-California-s-most-15891810.php|access-date=2021-01-24|website=SFChronicle.com|language=en-US}} Later in 2021, amid debates to allow the construction of four housing units on lots previously designated for single-family housing, Mar proposed to prohibit the construction of market-rate housing on the upzoned lots.{{Cite web|last=Dineen|first=J. K.|date=2021-11-16|title=S.F. supervisor wants affordable housing to focus on middle income households|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-supervisor-wants-affordable-housing-to-focus-16626349.php|access-date=2021-11-16|website=San Francisco Chronicle|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Dineen|first=J. K.|date=2021-11-16|title=S.F. supervisor pushes competing plan for fourplexes in single-family areas. Critics say it wouldn't produce much housing|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-supervisor-wants-affordable-housing-to-focus-16626349.php|access-date=2021-11-24|website=San Francisco Chronicle|language=en-US}}

In November 2021, Mar proposed to scale down a 98-unit low-income apartment complex in the Sunset District so that it would only have 80 units. Mar characterized this as a compromise between supporters and opponents of the apartment complex.{{Cite web|last=Dineen|first=J. K.|date=2021-11-24|title=Supervisor Mar pushes compromise for contested Sunset District affordable housing project|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Supervisor-Mar-pushes-compromise-for-contested-16647322.php|access-date=2021-11-24|website=San Francisco Chronicle|language=en-US}}

In January 2022, Mar defended the delay in approval for a $18.7 million grant to repurpose a hotel into a homeless shelter for upwards of 250 people. Mar said, "We’re all well aware of the urgency of this work. But I would echo the comments of my colleagues that we can’t use that urgency to go through a bad process."{{Cite web|last=writer|first=Carly Graf Examiner staff|date=2022-01-06|title=Latest homeless shelter delay epitomizes San Francisco's biggest challenge|url=http://www.sfexaminer.com/findings/san-francisco-homeless-shelter-delayed-as-supes-mull-neighborood-reaction/|access-date=2022-01-08|website=The San Francisco Examiner|language=en-US}}

His wife Cecilia is a realtor.{{Cite web|last=Collaborative|first=TechEquity|date=2018-10-18|title=Local Candidate Questionnaire: Gordon Mar, 2018 Candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors|url=https://medium.com/techequity-collaborative/local-candidate-questionnaire-gordon-mar-2018-candidate-for-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors-ecf9b18f42f7|access-date=2021-10-31|website=TechEquity Collaborative|language=en}} Together, they are landlords.

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• {{cite web |author=San Francisco Department of Elections |url=https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-6-2018-election-results-summary |title=November 6, 2018 Election Results – Summary |ref={{harvid|SF Elections|2018a}} }}
• {{cite web |author=San Francisco Department of Elections |url=https://www.sfelections.org/results/20181106/data/20181127/d4/20181127_d4.pdf |type=pdf |title=RCV Results Report: Board of Supervisors, District 4 |ref={{harvid|SF Elections|2018b}} }}
• {{cite news |title=SF declares supervisor race winners: Stefani, Mar, Haney, Mandelman, Walton |first=Trisha |last=Thadani |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/SF-declares-supervisor-race-winners-Stefani-13426510.php |date=November 27, 2018 |journal=San Francisco Chronicle }} {{closed access}}

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