Why a Progressive Candidate for Supervisor Is Suddenly Wooing Techies

San Francisco Magazine Scott Lucas Illustration by Elias Stein How a demographic tsunami in wild and woolly District 6 has scrambled the race for Jane Kim’s old seat. Most mornings, Matt Haney wakes up in his Tenderloin studio apartment and heads to the nearest tech-shuttle stop. He’s not a coder or a programmer busing to Mountain View, though. The longtime Board of Education member is stumping for votes in his bid to replace Jane Kim, the outgoing District 6 supervisor, in next month’s el...