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On June 3, San Franciscans voted for members of the County Central
Committee of the party in which they were registered.  Independents and
"Decline-to State"s cannot vote for County Committees.

Two of the major candidates for Supervisor in District 9, Eric Quezada
and David Campos, ran for seats on the Democratic County Central
Committee ( DCCC) in the 13th Assembly District.  The third major
candidate, Mark Sanchez, is not a Democrat.

The 13th Assembly District contains all or part of Supervisorial
Districts 2,3,5,6, 8,9, and 10.  In the 13th Assembly District, David
Campos defeated Eric Quezada by roughly 10,000 votes, and was one of the 12 candidates elected.

The Registrar of Voters has not yet (6/15/08) released results by
neighborhood, Supervisorial District, or precinct, and will probably not
do so until he officially certifies the Statement of Vote in early July.
 In the meantime, we were able to sample precinct results ( not
absentees) in 25% of the precincts in District 9.  This is not a
scientifically valid sample, but it is a very large sample.

In our sample, Campos ran an average of 4 votes per precinct ahead of
Quezada in District 9.  The DCCC election has historically been a very
strange election, in which the most important factors in a candidate’s
election were incumbency and ballot position.  That’s the central
reason why the DCCC has been so unrepresentative of the city’s
Democrats over the last 25 years, and why the Quezada campaign decided
there was no particular usefulness in spending money on the DCCC race.

Since David Campos had both incumbency and ballot position in his favor,
his failure to run more than 4 votes a precinct ahead of Quezada in
District 9 is a real defeat.