Saikat Chakrabarti is running for Congress in my old hometown, San Francisco. Nancy Pelosi has had the seat since 1987 and she hasn’t said whether or not she’s running for reelection next year. Whether she does or doesn’t, the district needs a dynamic new representative. I’ve known Saikat since 2018 when he was AOC’s campaign manager, helping her to beat Joe “the next speaker” Crowley. Before that though, Saikat was the director of organizing technology on the 2016 Bernie campaign and then one of the founders of Justice Democrats. Once AOC was elected, he went to DC with her as chief of staff, infuriating Republicans and lobbyists by writing and launching the Green New Deal. Since then, he’s led a policy think tank devoted to developing comprehensive plans for how the government can deliver prosperity and economic security for all Americans through an economic mobilization to build a clean economy.
Saikat was only 1 year old when Pelosi was first elected to Congress. These days he’s doing Zoom calls with San Francisco voters everyday and with non-San Francisco people every week. You can sign up for one on his website.
