CA-11: Big Money Pours Into San Francisco Race to Replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi

San Francisco’s leading congressional candidates are raking in dollars — some from their own pockets — in an effort to claim retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s seat in the House of Representatives later this year.

Pelosi, the former Speaker of the House who has represented San Francisco in Washington, D.C., for nearly 40 years, will retire in less than a year, and already the race to replace the powerful Democrat is proving both intense and expensive.

Saikat Chakrabarti, a progressive former tech engineer who worked on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and previously worked as chief of staff for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has pulled in by far the most money, nearly $5.2 million, new campaign finance disclosures show.

The vast majority of that, around $4.8 million, came from Chakrabarti, who is a centimillionaire himself. Other donors contributed roughly $360,000 to the campaign.



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