In SF D8 supervisor race, LGBTQ Dem clubs pick McCoy as top choice

For only the third time in the past 26 years have San Francisco’s two main LGBTQ Democratic clubs agreed on who should represent the LGBTQ Castro district and its surrounding neighborhoods as the District 8 supervisor. In this year’s race they have coalesced around Gary McCoy, a gay longtime political aide to Congressmember Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), as their top choice.

Tuesday night, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club endorsed McCoy as its number one pick in the contest. The progressive political group also backed gay patent attorney Michael Trung Nguyen as its second choice in the four-person race.

Under the city’s ranked-choice voting system, voters can rank candidates in first, second, third, and fourth place if they choose. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote in the first round then the candidates with the least votes are successively eliminated with their voters’ other ranked choices tabulated until a winner emerges.

Milk club Co-Presidents AjaiNicole Duncan and Reid Coggins told the Bay Area Reporter on Wednesday that they “are proud” by the members’ decision to approve the endorsements for District 8 Supervisor as recommended by its political action committee.



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