District 8 Candidate Eileen Hansen First Certified to Run in San Francisco

San Francisco District 8 candidate Eileen Hansen is the first out of the gate for this fall's Board of Supervisor
races in San Francisco. Running to win the seat she almost captured two years ago, Hansen became the first in the
City to qualify for the 2002 ballot by submitting over 1200 signatures from District 8 residents, well over the
minimum needed for any candidate. The Department of Elections certified on July 23 that the minimum number
had been submitted and approved, and noted that Hansen was their first signature-certified candidate.
"I'm very gratified by District 8’s response to our team's signature drive," Hansen said. "We’ve planned this
campaign as a grassroots effort, just like the last one, and residents are clearly responding to our message of
Leadership that Listens – no matter which District 8 neighborhood they live in. It’s been wonderful to talk with so
many neighbors about their concerns over the course of our six weeks of signature gathering."
With no incumbent in the District 8 race this year, Hansen said she is looking forward to building on the strong
support she gathered in the last election, while noting the new challenges that this campaign will bring. "Work
remains to be done in the City to address issues that will move us forward toward a healthy and vibrant future.
Our budget priorities are skewed so that we’d rather cut mental health services and lay off hospital laundry workers
than eliminate bonuses for some of the City’s top managers. The current administration has abdicated responsibility
for the outrageous homeless situation we all live with. Affordable housing is still lacking and since San Francisco
is so expensive, we are losing our population of children as we fail to do the long-range planning that is needed to
create a family-friendly City."
Drawing on her decades of community work and involvement with City government, Hansen hopes to bring her
skills in consensus-building to the Board and help craft comprehensive solutions to issues that have, for too long,
been stymied by conflict and neglect. Building on her slogan of Leadership that Listens, Hansen plans to reach out
to both the original neighborhoods of District 8, as well as the new areas that will shift to the District with this
fall's election, and will work to ensure that she represents the entire City as Supervisor.
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