MARCUS ISMAEL

A Champion of a Bay Area for Everyone

The Bay Area is a haven for dreamers, makers, hard workers, and families. Let’s fight to keep it that way.

Housing for All

The single biggest issue facing Bay Area residents face is the cost of housing. Housing is expensive because of decades of the city refusing to build housing at every level of income affordability and residents both current and future deserve leaders who can champion housing for everyone.

Prioritizing Transit Access for Everyone

The Bay Area is chock full of cities whose charters establish “transit first” transportation policies. Transit riders deserve to have a city government that puts their accessibility needs first.

Equitable Public Safety and Justice

Hardworking, law-abiding residents know what they deserve from a criminal justice system that costs nearly hundreds of millions of dollars every year: fair application of all the laws, equitable enforcement of these laws across every neighborhood, and a sacred dignity in keeping streets and families safe without brutality or violence from anyone. A better local justice system is possible.

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Standing Up for Essential Workers

This city’s economic history is one of boom and bust over the centuries of its existence, but the one constant has been the reliance of its success on immigrant and union labor. A city as rich and vibrant as San Francisco cannot afford to ignore the vitality essential workers - from restaurant cooks to grocery store stockers to trades laborers - bring to the city economy. While San Francisco is known as a hub for companies who bring innovation to the technology industry, it must also be as steadfast in its support for working people and their rights.

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KEEPING THINGS CLEAN AND CLEAR

The Bay Area’s cities cannot put their best face forward to the world if they cannot even keep its streets and parks clear of debris or provide free, open restrooms for every person to use. This change begins by taking seriously the need to maintain our livability standards and ensuring every neighborhood and it streets are clean and clear of waste. And doing so in a manner that is compassionate to the unhoused.

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A Resilient, Compassionate City

Global pandemics, wildfire smoke, power outages, flooding, earthquakes - San Francisco must be prepared for it all. It is not enough to have plans on how to keep buildings standing or readying the city to be evacuated; city government needs to be ready to step in when state or federal action comes too slowly to give residents food assistance, face masks and respirators, electricity and internet connectivity when natural disaster strikes.

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Left side of politics.

Right side of history.

The Bay Area is undoubtedly a solidly-Democratic stronghold, but it is the kind of Democrat you are that defines your place in locla politics. Marcus Ismael is a proud and unabashed liberal whose ideals are rooted in a belief that those fighting for change should always take the side of working people and families.

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