Local issues loom largest in election results

At Mayor Ed Lee and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s fete, some 150 trendy politicos held their drinks and stared — shocked and slack-jawed — as the televisions played out the Donald Trump victory. [...] it will be the local issues that will have a greater effect on your life. [...] of what they may say now, there were those in the mayor’s office who thought it was possible that Lee could get a post in Hillary Clinton’s Cabinet as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. [...] they supported Wiener, a moderate. [...] there hasn’t been evidence of that, so if Lee had to replace Kim as supervisor, the political calculus would be whether to appoint a progressive, knowing that person probably wouldn’t play nice with the mayor’s office, or install a moderate, knowing that candidate might not win re-election in two years. Safai, who would replace contentious progressive John Avalos, is likely to be the swing vote on issues, making him a minor power player. Four were attempts to curb the power of the office — either by limiting the ability to make political appointments or creating new City Hall agencies. Voters heartily approved a measure to give $50 million a year to homeless issues and $100 million a year for Muni by a 66-35 percent ratio and congratulated themselves for being so compassionate. [...] Wynns has consistently fought the idea of making neighborhood schools a priority for school assignment. The current system uses a complicated system called the Census Tract Integration Preference to put students in schools — often far away from their neighborhood. Of the four top vote-getters, at least three of them, Mark Sanchez, Rachel Norton and Matt Haney (who voted against the change last year), support the concept of neighborhood schools. If the board votes to allow families to attend their neighborhood school, it’ll bring needed change to the city.