Why Next Year’s Race Is Heating Up Fast

Ernest “EJ” Jones is about as “Native San Franciscan” as you can get—born at St. Luke’s Hospital and raised in the Lakeview/Ingleside neighborhoods, he went to St. Ignatius prep school and got his master’s in public administration at the University of San Francisco.

“I've lived in the district my entire life," Jones told The Standard. "I'm invested. I'm rooted here. I don't plan on leaving."

Endorsed by incumbent Safaí, Jones looks to continue a pragmatic “labor moderate” approach to government, with an emphasis on consensus.

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