Billionaire-funded campaign against Preston takes another step into disinformation

The billionaire-funded campaign against Sup. Dean Preston just gets weirder.

At one point, Elon Musk—who doesn’t even live in San Francisco, much less in District 5, and who has moved his company X out of town, said Preston should be put in jail for proposing limits on security guards pulling guns. Then Musk said he would give $100,000 to a campaign to defeat Preston (he hasn’t, so far).

But Garry Tan, who said that Preston and some other supes should “die slowly” has given $50,000 to an independent PAC run by GrowSF that is attacking Preston and supporting his rival, Bilal Mahmood.

(Let’s of big tech money in that PAC, including from Chris Larsen and several Y Combinator partners, not all of whom live in SF.)

Preston has led campaigns to raise money for affordable housing by taxing high-end real-estate transactions and the biggest businesses in the city. Perhaps that infuriates the billionaires, although Y Combinator is not one of the biggest businesses in town, and as far as I can tell, hardly any of the big donors live in D5.



https://48hills.org/2024/09/billionaire-funded-campaign-against-preston-takes-another-step-into-disinformation/