Casey Mills of Beyond Chron previews the San Francisco political battles looming ahead:

Locally, 2005 ended up being a relatively quiet election year. ’06, however, should be quite different. With five Supervisor’s races, contested State Assembly and Senate races, a formidable list of ballot initiatives in the pipeline, and the entire Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) up for grabs, we could begin to see fireworks quite soon. Voters will head to the polls twice this year, with June and November splitting the political drama between them. Here’s an early look at what races will be contentious, which outcomes will most affect the city’s political landscape, and which ‘battles’ could end up being much ado about nothing.

The local June ’06 election will be highlighted by the Reilly-Ma Assembly race, the Yee-Nevin Senate contest, and the election of a new Democratic County Central Committee, whose primary task involves endorsing candidates and campaigns for the party. The big news affecting the statewide campaign outlook for June 2006 involves the surprising failure of the anti-gay marriage state ballot initiative to qualify. This failure means that instead of a record voter turnout in June, the number of voters going to the polls will be far fewer than in November, especially if anti-marriage groups succeed in their current attempts to qualify an initiative for November.

As for my favorite San Francisco elected official, Mills writes “it appears District 2’s Michela Alioto-Pier will walk away with a win.”

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