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Scott Wiener
Democratic Party
Candidate, U.S. House California District 11
California State Senate District 11
Tenure
2016 - Present
Term ends
2028
Years in position
10
Predecessor: Mark Leno (D)
Prior offices:
San Francisco Board of Supervisors District 8
Years in office: 2011 - 2016
Successor: Jeff Sheehy
Compensation
Base salary
$132,703/year
Per diem
$236/day
Elections and appointments
Last election
November 5, 2024
Next election
June 2, 2026
Education
Bachelor's
Duke University
Law
Harvard University
Personal
Profession
Attorney
Contact
Official website
Official YouTube
Campaign website
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Campaign Instagram
Campaign TikTok
Personal Facebook
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Scott Wiener (Democratic Party) is a member of the California State Senate, representing District 11. He assumed office in 2016. His current term ends on December 4, 2028.

Wiener (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 11th Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the primary on June 2, 2026.[source]

Biography

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Wiener holds a B.S. from Duke University and a J.D. from Harvard University. His professional experience includes working as a clerk for the Supreme Court of New Jersey and as a deputy city attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.[1]

2026 battleground election

See also: California's 11th Congressional District election, 2026 (June 2 top-two primary)

Ballotpedia identified the June 2 top-two primary for California's 11th Congressional District as a battleground election. The summary below is from our coverage of this election, found here.

Eight Democrats, two Republicans, and one independent are running in the top-two primary for California's 11th Congressional District on June 2, 2026. As of March 2026, Saikat Chakrabarti (D), Connie Chan (D), and Scott Wiener (D) led in fundraising, endorsements, and local media attention.[2][3]

Incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D) is not running for re-election. Mission Local's Joe Eskenazi said: "Nobody still in the business has run a real San Francisco congressional race. Pelosi has held this seat since 1987. There hasn’t been a serious and competitive race for two generations."[4] As of March 2026, Pelosi had not endorsed any of the candidates.

Chakrabarti is a former software engineer and staff member for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D). Chakrabarti co-founded Justice Democrats after the 2016 presidential election.[5] In his Candidate Connection survey, Chakrabarti said he was running because "San Franciscans are being crushed by the cost of living and betrayed by leaders who are too comfortable in power to fight for us."[6] Eskenazi said, "Chakrabarti’s lane is narrow...[he is] in the unusual position of appealing to San Francisco voters who gravitate to national left-wing politics without yet having the backing of San Francisco voters who gravitate to San Francisco left-wing politics."[4] Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D) endorsed Chakrabarti.[7]

Chan is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Before her election in 2020, Chan worked in the city government, including as a staffer for then-District Attorney Kamala Harris.[8] Chan says she is running "for all the people who feel like they’re getting priced out of their own city. I’m running for those who are under attack by the Trump Administration."[9] Eskenazi said Chan's potential base of support includes "Asian/Chinese voters, the Westside and then an assortment of Great Highway refuseniks, disgruntled neighborhood dwellers and others who are chafing against what used to be referred to as 'Downtown.'"[4] Sen. Adam Schiff (D) endorsed Chan.[10]

Wiener is a member of the California Senate. Before his election to the Senate in 2016, Wiener served for five years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.[11] Wiener says he is running "to defend San Francisco, our values, our people, and the Constitution of the United States with everything I have."[12] Eskenazi said Wiener "has a stronghold in District 8, the neighborhood that consistently has the highest voter turnout, and is also the only significant moderate or LGBTQ candidate in the race."[4] California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) endorsed Wiener.[13]

Also running in the primary are John Buffler (D), Keith Freedman (D), Omed Hamid (D), Gregory Haynes (D), Marie Hurabiell (D), David Ganezer (R), Jingchao Xiong (R), and Nathan Deer (I).

In a top-two primary, all candidates running for a given office appear on the same primary ballot. The top two finishers—regardless of party affiliation—advance to the general election. The Democratic Party of California endorsed Wiener.[14] As of March 2026, the Republican Party of California had not endorsed any candidate.[15]

As of March 2026, major election forecasters rated the general election Safe/Solid Democratic. In 2024, Pelosi defeated Bruce Lou (R) 81%–19%.

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Wiener was assigned to the following committees:

2023-2024

Wiener was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Wiener was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Wiener was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

California committee assignments, 2017
• Appropriations
• Energy, Utilities and Communications
• Human Services, Chair
• Public Safety
• Transportation and Housing
• Rules

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2026

See also: California's 11th Congressional District election, 2026

California's 11th Congressional District election, 2026 (June 2 top-two primary)

General election

The primary will occur on June 2, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 11

The following candidates are running in the primary for U.S. House California District 11 on June 2, 2026.

Candidate
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John Buffler (D)
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Saikat Chakrabarti (D) Candidate Connection
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Connie Chan (D)
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Nathan Deer (No party preference) Candidate Connection
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Keith Freedman (D)
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David Ganezer (R)
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Omed Hamid (D)
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Gregory Haynes (D)
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Marie Hurabiell (D)
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Scott Wiener (D)
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Jingchao Xiong (R) Candidate Connection

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Polls

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California's 11th Congressional District top-two primary, 2026 polls
PollDatesChakrabarti (D)Chan (D)Wiener (D)OtherUndecidedSample sizeMargin of errorSponsor
Data for Progress
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2017321318
797 LV
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Saikat Chakrabarti (D)
Data for Progress
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1617371417
806 LV
± 3.0%
Saikat Chakrabarti (D)
Note: LV is likely voters, RV is registered voters, and EV is eligible voters.


Candidate spending

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
John Buffler Democratic Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***
Saikat Chakrabarti Democratic Party $1,769,248 $1,656,981 $112,266 As of December 31, 2025
Connie Chan Democratic Party $174,385 $54,854 $119,531 As of December 31, 2025
Keith Freedman Democratic Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***
Omed Hamid Democratic Party $44,997 $34,968 $10,029 As of March 31, 2026
Gregory Haynes Democratic Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***
Marie Hurabiell Democratic Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***
Scott Wiener Democratic Party $2,785,989 $511,624 $2,274,365 As of December 31, 2025
David Ganezer Republican Party $59 $37 $22 As of March 31, 2026
Jingchao Xiong Republican Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***
Nathan Deer No party preference $3,462 $2,071 $1,392 As of March 31, 2026

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," . This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.
*** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

Satellite spending

See also: Satellite spending

Satellite spending describes political spending not controlled by candidates or their campaigns; that is, any political expenditures made by groups or individuals that are not directly affiliated with a candidate. This includes spending by political party committees, super PACs, trade associations, and 501(c)(4) nonprofit groups.[18][19][20]

If available, this section includes links to online resources tracking satellite spending in this election. To notify us of a resource to add, email us.

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Endorsements

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2024

See also: California State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for California State Senate District 11

Incumbent Scott Wiener defeated Yvette Corkrean in the general election for California State Senate District 11 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Scott Wiener (D)
 
77.8
 
325,148
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Yvette Corkrean (R) Candidate Connection
 
22.2
 
92,715

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 417,863
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 11

Incumbent Scott Wiener and Yvette Corkrean defeated Cynthia Cravens and Jingchao Xiong in the primary for California State Senate District 11 on March 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
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Scott Wiener (D)
 
73.0
 
166,610
✔
Image of Yvette Corkrean
Yvette Corkrean (R) Candidate Connection
 
15.1
 
34,447
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Cynthia Cravens (D) Candidate Connection
 
8.1
 
18,519
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Jingchao Xiong (No party preference)
 
3.8
 
8,717

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 228,293
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Wiener in this election.

2020

See also: California State Senate elections, 2020

General election

General election for California State Senate District 11

Incumbent Scott Wiener defeated Jackie Fielder in the general election for California State Senate District 11 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Scott Wiener (D)
 
57.1
 
254,635
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42.9
 
191,065

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 445,700
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for California State Senate District 11

Incumbent Scott Wiener and Jackie Fielder defeated Erin Smith in the primary for California State Senate District 11 on March 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
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Scott Wiener (D)
 
55.7
 
167,124
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Jackie Fielder (D) Candidate Connection
 
33.2
 
99,566
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Erin Smith (R)
 
11.1
 
33,321

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Total votes: 300,011
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2016

See also: California State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the California State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election was held on June 7, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was February 25, 2016, for candidates filing with signatures. The deadline for candidates using a filing fee to qualify was March 11, 2016.[21] Incumbent Mark Leno (D) did not seek re-election.

Scott Wiener defeated Jane Kim in the California State Senate District 11 general election.[22][23]

California State Senate, District 11 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Scott Wiener 50.99% 209,462
     Democratic Jane Kim 49.01% 201,316
Total Votes 410,778
Source: California Secretary of State


Jane Kim and Scott Wiener defeated Ken Loo in the California State Senate District 11 Blanket primary.[24][25]

California State Senate, District 11 Blanket Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Jane Kim 45.31% 118,582
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Scott Wiener 45.06% 117,913
     Republican Ken Loo 9.63% 25,189
Total Votes 261,684

2014

See also: San Francisco, California Board of Supervisors elections, 2014

The city of San Francisco, California held board of supervisors elections on November 4, 2014. In District 8, incumbent Scott Wiener defeated Tom Wayne Basso, George Davis, John Nulty and Michael Petrelis in the general election.[26][27]

San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8, 2014
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngScott Wiener Incumbent 77.7% 22,854
Michael Petrelis 6.8% 2,004
Tom Wayne Basso 5.3% 1,574
George Davis 4.7% 1,372
John Nulty 4.6% 1,359
Write-in 0.9% 261
Total Votes 29,163
Source: San Francisco Board of Elections - Official 2014 election results

Campaign themes

2026

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Campaign website

Wiener's campaign website stated the following:

Abolish ICE, Unmask Agents, Hold them Accountable, and Create a Pathway to Citizenship

ICE has become a terror organization. We must abolish ICE and hold officials and agents accountable for lawless behavior.

‍Scott is a national leader on accountability for ICE, Border Patrol, and other agencies violating the law and terrorizing communities. Scott authored and passed our nation’s first law banning ICE and other law enforcement from wearing Gestapo-like face masks they use to hide from accountability and create an atmosphere of impunity — the No Secret Police Act.


Now Scott is fighting to pass the No Kings Act, which makes it much easier to sue ICE and other federal agents for violating your rights. Under current law, it’s nearly impossible to sue a federal agent for excessive force, false arrest, etc. — leading to a sense of impunity and emboldened aggression by agents toward the public. Scott is working to put an end to that impunity.


Scott has long supported abolishing ICE, which is a broken agency. He first announced his support in 2018 and reiterated it in mid-2025. In Congress, he will take his state-level work national and will pursue federal reforms to:

‍

‍Step 1: Unmask the agents and officials waging a terror campaign on our communities.

‍Step 2: Allow people to sue federal agents for violating their rights — in other words haul their a**es into court when they violate the law.

‍Step 3: Abolish ICE.

‍Step 4: Ban private prisons (which California, with Scott’s support, has already done), including the ICE private prison gulags.

‍Step 5: Make DACA recipients citizens and create a pathway to citizenship for our immigrant communities.


With armed secret police publicly executing people in the streets, we need leaders who stand up and deliver real results to protect communities from terror and violence and to fully embrace immigrant communities as key parts of American life. Chinga la migra.


Safeguarding & Uplifting LGBTQ People

Protecting trans people — and all LGBTQ people — from Trump’s assault is at the top of Scott’s agenda.

With the LGBTQ community facing a vicious and brutal assault from the Trump Administration, we need a leader who will fight relentlessly for our community. Scott is that fighter, and he has fought so hard for LGBTQ people that he has put his own personal safety at risk, experiencing repeated personal attacks by Marjorie Taylor Green, Megyn Kelly, Ted Cruz, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and others, in addition to a tidal wave of death threats and physical harassment by anti-LGBTQ bigots.In Congress, Scott will fight to stop Trump’s assault on healthcare for LGBTQ people and restore access, including to transgender young people. Scott will fight to pass the Equality Act, a national civil rights law to protect LGBTQ people in every community from targeting and discrimination. Scott will work to pass legislation overriding red state anti-LGBTQ hate laws.


As a gay man who came of age as a teenager during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1987, Scott knows our community has seen dark days before. The devastation of HIV/AIDS inspired Scott to volunteer for an HIV crisis hotline as a college student in North Carolina, and he advocated for transgender people as a student at Harvard Law School in the 1990s. When Scott moved to San Francisco, he was part of the core group of people who built San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center. When gay men were being raped on the streets of the Castro, Scott stepped up and helped create a community safety organization to keep people safe.


In the Senate, Scott has fought to erase discriminatory laws that harmed LGBTQ people, including LGBTQ youth, transgender women, and people living with HIV. He authored nation-leading laws to make PrEP available from a pharmacist without a physician prescription (similar to the birth control pill), establish the nation’s strongest legal protections for LGBTQ seniors in nursing homes and other long-term care, collect voluntary health data to fight health disparities in the LGBTQ community, repeal discriminatory felonies targeting people living with HIV, and end discrimination against LGBTQ people on California’s broken sex offender registry.


Scott has relentlessly defended LGBTQ people against the vicious attacks Trump and his MAGA cronies have unleashed. He authored the nation’s first law to make California a state of refuge for LGBTQ people — including trans youth and their families fleeing red states — and expanded privacy protections to prevent harassment and doxxing of transgender and nonbinary people. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott secured $15 million in state funds to cover gender affirming healthcare that Trump is attempting to cut from Medicaid. Scott has also obtained state budget funds to support creation of an LGBTQ history museum in the Castro, an LGBTQ music center in the Mission, a revamped Harvey Milk Plaza, and Eagle Plaza in SOMA.


Legislation

  • SB 107 (2022): Establishes California as a refuge for transgender youth and their parents, who are being criminalized in red states for seeking medically recommended gender affirming healthcare.
  • SB 59 (2025): Protects transgender Californians from harassment and outing by automatically making legal records related to gender transition confidential.
  • SB 497 (2025): Protects the privacy of medical data related to gender transition, and strengthens the protections of SB 107, the transgender state of refuge law.
  • SB 957 (2023): Empowers efforts to eliminate health disparities by closing loopholes in requirements to collect LGBTQ health data.
  • SB 219 (2017): Strengthens protections for LGBT seniors living in long-term care facilities against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or HIV status. Later incorporated into an Executive Order issued by President Biden.
  • SB 159 (2019): Authorizes pharmacists to furnish pre- and post- exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP) without a physician prescription and also prohibits insurance companies from requiring prior authorizations in order to obtain PrEP coverage.


Protecting Health Care and Science

Scott is a leader in expanding access to health care — including creation of a Medicare for All single payer system of universal coverage — and scientific research to improve health and solve other global problems.


Scott has played a key role in the fight against Trump’s effort to destroy health care access and defund science. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott helped shore up California’s health care system to protect against Trump’s health care cuts. In Congress, Scott will fight to protect and strengthen Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Scott will also bring his state-level work to force insurance companies to cover more health care more affordably, including mental health care, to the federal level. While Scott’s goal is a Medicare for All system, until we get there, we must fix and strengthen the system we have so that people can access affordable health care.


Scott quickly responded to Trump’s attempt to destroy scientific research: The regime’s destruction of federal science agencies and brutal cuts to university science research. Scott built a coalition of labor unions, universities, scientists, businesses, and students to advance a massive funding measure in California to create a new scientific research institute to ensure California remains the global leader on science. In Congress, Scott will prioritize funding and supporting scientific research and innovation. Science is a pillar of American prosperity, and we must embrace it and ensure the U.S. remains the world leader.


Israel and Palestine

Promoting peace, ending the destruction and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, combating antisemitism, and supporting Jewish and Palestinian communities.

Scott believes Israel and Palestine must co-exist side by side in peace. There are over 7 million Jews and 7 million Palestinians living in the region, and neither is going anywhere. Endless violence, destruction, and displacement are untenable and must end. Peace is the only answer.‍


‍Scott has been vocal that the Israeli government's destruction of Gaza has been utterly disproportionate, indefensible, and a moral stain.‍Scott believes the Netanyahu government’s destruction of Palestinian communities in Gaza constitutes a genocide.‍Scott strongly supports Israel’s existence as Jewish homeland and strongly opposes efforts to destroy Israel, such as Hamas’s October 7 terror attack and taking of hostages, as well as the global BDS movement.‍Scott has long opposed the Netanyahu government’s West Bank settlement policy, which is systematically dismembering the West Bank as a contiguous Palestinian community. Scott believes settlement expansions are illegal and designed to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Settler land grabs and violence must not be tolerated.‍


‍Scott is neither seeking nor accepting support from AIPAC, due to significant policy differences.‍


‍Scott will not support U.S. funding for the destruction of Palestinian communities in Gaza or the West Bank and thus will not support offensive arms sales to an Israeli government not committed to peace. Scott also believes the U.S. should support Israel’s defense with defensive systems, for example, Iron Dome and David’s Sling.


As a Jew whose family members fled anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe and Russia, Scott deeply believes in Israel’s critical importance to Jews globally, as Jewish homeland and home to half of all Jews on the planet. Scott also strongly believes Palestinians deserve a state in the West Bank and Gaza.


Scott believes both Israel and Palestine must be governed by leadership committed to peace and democracy. As a result, Scott, who has long protested Benjamin Netanyahu and has referred to him as a “cancer,” has publicly called for a new government in Israel. Scott has also been clear that Hamas, which is a vile terrorist organization committed to Israel’s destruction and the removal of Jews, must disarm and have no role in a future Palestinian state.


Scott has consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself and also vocally opposed the Israeli government’s destruction of Gaza. For example, when Hamas began launching missiles into Israel in 2021, and Israel responded with extreme bombing of Gaza, Scott called for an end to the violence and publicly stated that Israel had gone beyond self-defense in its bombing campaign.


When Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 and engaged in the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Scott immediately and vocally condemned Hamas’s pogrom and supported Israel’s right to defend itself. However, Israel quickly went beyond self-defense in its over-the-top response in Gaza. Scott began opposing Israel’s escalations in Gaza on October 13, 2023. Over time, Scott has opposed and condemned Israel’s extreme response, referring to it as “cratering an entire population,” “absolute destruction,” a “moral stain,” and a “Shanda” (Yiddish for “disgrace”). Scott has also stated his belief that the Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide.


The Netanyahu government — which includes vile messianic extremists who used to be banned from being part of Israeli governments and who have made indisputably genocidal statements about Palestinians — is a barrier to peace. It is deeply harming Palestinians and also harming Israelis. It is upending Israel’s standing in the world and damaging Israeli democracy.


Scott is a leader in the fight against antisemitism. He has consistently called out antisemitism on both the right and the left — whether Trump’s empowerment of antisemites and efforts to elect Nazi-aligned governments in Europe or the casting out from progressive spaces of Jews who support Israel’s existence. Scott has vocally opposed antisemitism in our local community, whether the targeting of Jewish-owned businesses, the targeting of Jewish kids in our public schools, or antisemitic atmospheres at UCSF and San Francisco State University.


Scott, who helped lead the California Legislative Jewish Caucus for over five years, helped pass California’s law to address antisemitism in our schools. Scott has also vocally opposed Trump’s disingenuous and false use of antisemitism to defund universities and scientific research. Scott has been clear that when Trump disingenuously attacks universities and science in the name of the Jews — whereas he is actually doing so to further his own anti-science, anti-education MAGA ideology — it makes Jews less safe.


Scott is also proud of San Francisco’s vibrant Palestinian community. Scott has condemned attacks on Palestinians and Muslims, including violence directed at the community and political attacks by MAGA Republicans and others. Scott has long championed California’s nonprofit security grant program, which has helped make both Jewish and Muslim community institutions in San Francisco more secure from hate attacks.


Scott’s Video Statements on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank

‍‍Scott’s video statement on genocide in Gaza‍

‍Scott’s video statement on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank


Examples of Scott’s Past Public Statements on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank (all on Twitter)

  • 10/13/23 “I'm a life-long supporter of Israel & am reeling from Hamas's genocidal pogrom. Israel has a right to defend itself & hold Hamas accountable for this atrocity. Israel also must avoid civilian disaster in Gaza. Displacing >1M Gazans — half the population — is not the answer.”
  • 10/15/23 (On the Islamophobic murder of Wadea al-Fayoume) “This is absolutely vile & heartbreaking — the brutal murder of a young Palestinian boy in Illinois. Our Muslim community is part of our nation’s rich, diverse fabric & we must never normalize Islamophobic violence. Rest in peace, Wadea. You deserved so much better.”
  • 10/18/23 “With 1,400 innocents dead, Israel must hold Hamas accountable for the horror it perpetrated. But an endless ground war that destabilizes the region & imperils the lives of millions of Gazans & 360,000 Israeli soldiers is not the way to achieve that goal.”
  • 10/25/23 “Vigilante settlers are taking advantage of Israel’s war with Hamas to grab Palestinian land in the West Bank & to commit violence against Palestinians. Netanyahu is letting them get away with it. It needs to stop. West Bank settlement expansion sabotages any long-term solution.”
  • 10/27/23 “I’ve been clear about my own criticisms of Israel since the start of this war, including the settler violence in the West Bank, forced evacuation of 1.1M Gazans, escalation in Gaza & the humanitarian disaster & massive death unfolding there.”
  • 10/27/23 “It’s also beyond horrific that some members of Netanyahu’s government are calling for mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank.”
  • 12/17/23 “At a time when the world must work to end the war while bringing home all hostages, ensuring Hamas no longer runs Gaza & laying groundwork for a 2-state solution, Netanyahu again shows he’s unfit for office. Israel needs a PM committed to durable peace. Netanyahu is the opposite”
  • 12/23/23 “The discourse since the 10/7 Hamas pogrom has at times been dominated by either (1) fully supporting everything Israel does or (2) delegitimizing Israel’s existence & wanting the home of 50% of Jews on planet Earth to be eliminated. For most Jews, however, we support Israel & also criticize it & can’t stand Netanyahu. We know Hamas is a death cult. We want peace. We want Israelis & Palestinians to be able to live in peace in Israel & Palestine. We want the death cycle to end.”


Transportation

SCOTT IS LEADING THE FIGHT TO SAVE OUR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS.

IN CONGRESS, HE’LL FIGHT TO EXPAND SUPPORT FOR TRANSIT AND CUT RED TAPE TO DELIVER PROJECTS FASTER AND AT LOWER COST.

Scott is San Francisco's foremost champion for public transportation and a 28+ year daily rider of Muni and regular rider of BART. Like you, Scott has long experienced the good, bad, and ugly of San Francisco transit.


As a member of the Board of Supervisors, Scott authored a charter amendment, which the voters passed, to ensure Muni funding increases as San Francisco grows — a measure that provides about $60 millions in Muni funding annually. More recently, when these systems faced financial collapse, Scott knew he had to leave it all on the floor in the fight to save BART, Muni, and Caltrain. He stepped up to lead the fight in the Legislature for transit funding, securing billions in state funding to keep our trains and buses running on time, and authoring a law to trigger a regional ballot measure that will provide a sustainable, long-term source of funding for transit systems across the Bay Area.


In Congress, Scott will be a leading champion for public transit. He’ll fight to stabilize our transit systems, expand and improve them, and fix the broken bureaucratic processes that create the unacceptable delays and cost-overruns that have become all too common in recent years. His priorities include:


  • Increase federal investment in public transit
  • Establish increased, predictable, formula-based funding for transit operations
  • Increase capital funding under a more predictable, formula-based approach
  • Secure funding for transformational projects like a Westside Subway to the Richmond and Sunset, completing the Portal to connect Caltrain and High-Speed Rail downtown, expanding our bus rapid transit lane network, and more.
  • Reform NEPA so that environmental laws are not abused to block or delay climate-friendly, sustainable transportation projects
  • Align transportation funding with land use outcomes that increase ridership
  • Lower costs of transit project delivery by reforming procurement and code requirements
  • Creating a national transit center of excellence within the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and strengthening the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) role as a delivery partner


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Legislation

  • SB 63 (2025): Authorizes a Bay Area regional transit funding measure on the 2026 ballot
  • SB 288 (2020), SB 922 (2022), and SB 71 (2025): Streamlines sustainable bike, bus, light rail, pedestrian and other transportation projects.SB 960 (2024) - Complete Streets Bill: Requires Caltrans to add bike lanes, sidewalks, other active transportation, and public transit improvements on state-owned surface streets and state highways.
  • SB 960 (2024): Complete Streets Bill: Requires Caltrans to add bike lanes, sidewalks, other active transportation, and public transit improvements on state-owned surface streets and state highways.
  • SB 532 (2024): Mobile Parking Payment Zones Pilot
  • SB 339 (2021): Road Usage Charge pilot program - forward-thinking assessment to maintain state of good repair in the face of declining transportation revenues

— Scott Wiener's campaign website (March 5, 2026)

Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

Campaign ads


"It's official: I'm running for Congress" – Wiener campaign ad, released October 22, 2025

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2024

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2020

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2014

On his campaign website, Wiener highlighted the issues listed below.[28]
To read Wiener's full stances on these issues and others, see here.

Housing

  • Excerpt: "To address the constant and growing demand for housing, we need to find ways to encourage both market-rate and below-market-rate housing in San Francisco, as well as different kinds and sizes of housing. For years, due to a laborious entitlement process and short-sighted political decisions, our housing production has failed to keep track with our population growth, which has led to sky high rents and exceedingly expensive real estate prices. We also need to stabilize and protect our existing rent-controlled units through eviction protections. Through these two mechanisms - encouraging growth and ensuring housing stability - San Francisco can continue to grow as a city for all."

Public health

  • Excerpt: "We have fought to ensure continued funding for those living with and at-risk for HIV. Through Healthy San Francisco, we've significantly expanded access to health care. The Board of Supervisors is currently considering a tax on soda and other sugary drinks - a measure I'm co-authoring - to fund health, nutrition and physical activity programs and to combat the rise in diabetes and other metabolic diseases caused by the consumption of these drinks."

Transportation

  • Excerpt: "Transit-first does not mean making it impossible for people to drive and park. Rather, it means providing people with great choices other than driving their own vehicles, which will result in some people giving up their cars and others simply driving less. If even 5-10% of San Franciscans with cars gave up those cars to rely on other options, we would significantly reduce street congestion and make it much easier for those who continue to drive to find parking. By contrast, if we continue on our current path of under-investment, we will see an increase in cars in our city, resulting in increased congestion, less safe streets, and more competition for parking. We have a choice, and we need to make the right choice."

Public safety

  • Excerpt: "One of the challenges of living in a major city is to ensure good public safety. This requires a broad range of efforts, including having a robust police force, making pedestrian safety improvements, shoring up the seismic safety of our building stock, and improving our criminal justice system."

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Scott Wiener campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2026* U.S. House California District 11On the Ballot primary$2,785,989 $511,624
2024California State Senate District 11Won general$2,349,583 $2,222,857
2020California State Senate District 11Won general$3,034,035 N/A**
2016California State Senate, District 11Won $2,764,534 N/A**
Grand total$10,934,141 $2,734,481
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Election Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ San Francisco Board of Supervisors, "District 8," accessed December 1, 2014
    2. ↑ San Francisco Examiner, "Word on the Street: A 'once-in-a-generation' race for SF voters," January 8, 2026
    3. ↑ Mission Local, "And then there were three: The race to succeed Nancy Pelosi takes shape," November 24, 2025
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named MLJan8
    5. ↑ Saikat Chakrabarti campaign website, "About me," accessed March 3, 2026
    6. ↑ Candidate Connection survey submitted to Ballotpedia on November 14, 2025.
    7. ↑ Saikat Chakrabarti campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 5, 2026
    8. ↑ Connie Chan campaign website, "Meet Connie," accessed March 3, 2026
    9. ↑ Connie Chan campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 3, 2026
    10. ↑ Instagram, "Connie Chan on March 4, 2026," accessed March 5, 2026
    11. ↑ Scott Wiener campaign website, "Meet Scott," accessed March 3, 2026
    12. ↑ Scott Wiener campaign website, "Home page," accessed March 3, 2026
    13. ↑ Scott Wiener campaign website, "Endorsements," accessed March 5, 2026
    14. ↑ Democratic Party of California, "2026 Primary Election Endorsements," February 22, 2026
    15. ↑ Republican Party of California, "2026 Endorsements," accessed March 3, 2026
    16. ↑ For more information on the difference between margins of error and credibility intervals, see explanations from the American Association for Public Opinion Research and Ipsos.
    17. ↑ Pew Research Center, "5 key things to know about the margin of error in election polls," September 8, 2016
    18. ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Outside Spending," accessed December 12, 2021
    19. ↑ OpenSecrets.org, "Total Outside Spending by Election Cycle, All Groups," accessed December 12, 2021
    20. ↑ National Review.com, "Why the Media Hate Super PACs," December 12, 2021
    21. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Key Dates and Deadlines," accessed April 18, 2017
    22. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for the November 8, 2016, General Election," accessed September 7, 2016
    23. ↑ California Secretary of State, "2016 General Election results," accessed December 23, 2016
    24. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Certified List of Candidates for Voter-Nominated Offices," accessed April 4, 2016
    25. ↑ California Secretary of State, "Statement of Vote," accessed August 22, 2016
    26. ↑ City of San Francisco, "Official candidate list,"
    27. ↑ San Francisco Board of Elections, "2014 Unofficial General Election Results," accessed November 4, 2014
    28. ↑ Scott Wiener, "policy," accessed September 30, 2014

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