California 11th Congressional District Primary 2026: Live Election Results - The New York Times - "In the San Francisco contest to replace Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker who is retiring, State Senator Scott Wiener is the front-runner. But he faces challengers from his left, most notably Saikat Chakrabarti, a former chief of staff for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Connie Chan, a member of the city’s Board of Supervisors."
At >95% counted, Scott Wiener 41.0%, Connie Chan 29.8%, Saikat Chakrabarti 17.6%, others 4.0%, 4.0%, 1.8%, 0.8%, 0.4%, 0.3%, 0.2%, 0.2%. All of them are Democrats except for Republicans #5 and #6, and Independent #9.
I'm disappointed by the loss of Saikat Chakrabarti. He has IMO a lot of good positions, and he has demonstrated his support of them over the last decade.
Saikat Chakrabarti - Wikipedia He is the son of some Bengali Hindu immigrants, and he worked in several Silicon Valley companies, including as an engineer in payments processor Stripe. He how has at least $50 million in equity from Stripe.
After that success, he asked himself how much he was doing on a broader level, and in 2015, he joined Bernie Sanders's Presidential campaign and he helped develop some software for helping BS's campaigners contact each other and be in touch with each other. He, Alexandra Rojas, and Corbin Trent helped stage campaign events, and sccording to SC, BS's campaigners got "people would say, 'How's he going to get anything done? We just saw what Congress did to Obama for the last eight years, they’re gonna do the same thing to Bernie.'" So in the spring of 2016, as BS's campaign was winding down, SC, AR, and CT founded Brand New Congress, with the ambitious goal of challenging every Congressional seat. Though acting like a third party, BNC's candidates would run as Democrats or Republicans as appropriate. However, BNC was not nearly as successful. In 2017, SC, BS campaign executive Zack Exley, and podcasters Cenk Uygur and Zack Exley founded Justice Democrats, which would work in the Democratic Party, and SC, AR, and CT became leaders of JD.
BNC and JD had one big success in 2018: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who unseated longtime incumbent and "corporate Democrat" Joe Crowley. SC became AOC's chief of staff, and he helped organize the writing of AOC's Green New Deal resolution. "it wasn't originally a climate thing at all ... we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." and about the Presidency and Senate Republicans, "Don't expect them to back down . . . Another thing to really do over the next two years is to basically show the American people what will be possible if the Democrats win the House, the Senate and the presidency in 2020, and that means putting our best foot forward. It means putting the most ambitious, the boldest, the biggest things we can, and then just build a movement around that."
But he caused a lot of controversy by saying that the more conservative sort of Democrats were like Southern segregationists, and his explicitly naming a Congressmember as being one of them. He resigned, and to this day, AOC does not want to talk about him, even though SC mentioned his association with AOC in his campaign.
He then joined the think tank
New Consensus to further develop a Green New Deal, and more recently, a "Mission for America". It has a lot:
Clean-energy electrical grid, electric vehicles, hydrogen production for renewable-energy steel production and shipping and aviation fuels, electrifying heating and cooking in buildings, geothermal energy, nuclear reactors in military bases to avoid civilian red tape, R&D for the more difficult problems like CO2 removal, high-speed trains, injecting aerosols into the stratosphere for temporary cooling, ocean conservation and restoration, and winding down the use of fossil fuels.
