Controller
✦ AI Race Summary
Incumbent Malia Cohen seeks a second term. The Controller is the state's chief fiscal officer — disburses payments, audits state spending, sits on the boards of CalPERS and CalSTRS (~$1T combined), and publishes pay data for 2M+ government workers. A three-way race with one Democrat, one Republican, and one minor-party candidate.
Candidates · sorted by endorsements
Elected Controller in 2022. Former member and president of the SF Board of Supervisors and former chair of the State Board of Equalization. Chaired SF's Budget and Finance Committee and ran the $35B SF Employees' Retirement System.
United Democratic Club · Endorsed
BAJC-Action · Endorsed
Chief investment officer running on rooting out government fraud and waste.
San Francisco school bus driver and Teamsters Local 853 organizer; longtime Peace and Freedom Party activist. Platform: exposing corporate landlords and analyzing policy costs to working families.