Matt Haney | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Member of theCalifornia State Assembly from the17th district | |
| Assumed office May 3, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | David Chiu |
| Member of theSan Francisco Board of Supervisors from the 6th district | |
| In office January 8, 2019 – May 3, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Jane Kim |
| Succeeded by | Matt Dorsey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Matthew Craig Haney (1982-04-17)April 17, 1982 (age 43) Santa Cruz County,California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Stanford University (MA,JD) National University of Ireland (LLM) |
| Website | State Assembly website |
Matthew Craig Haney (born April 17, 1982) is an American politician fromSan Francisco currently serving as a member of theCalifornia State Assembly from the17th district, covering the eastern portion of the city.[1] Aprogressive member of theDemocratic Party, Haney had representedDistrict 6 on theSan Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as a commissioner on theSan Francisco Board of Education from 2013 to 2019.
In 2022, Haney won aspecial election to the California State Assembly to succeedDavid Chiu, who becameCity Attorney of San Francisco. He placed first in theprimary election and defeated former supervisorDavid Campos, a fellow Democrat, in a runoff.[2][3] He was sworn in on May 3, 2022.[4]
Haney was born inSanta Cruz County, California,[5] raised in theSan Francisco Bay Area and attended public schools inAlbany, California.[6] His mother, Kris Calvin, served on theSouth PasadenaSchool Board.[7]
He has aBachelor of Arts in 2005 from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and anLL.M in human rights from theNational University of Ireland, where he was a Senator George Mitchell Scholar.[8] He has aMaster of Arts in 2010 from theStanford Graduate School of Education and aJD in 2010 fromStanford Law School.[9] Haney worked at both theStanford Design School and at the JFK School of Law, and Sociology atPalo Alto University, where he taught education law.[10] Haney taught Education Law at the JFK School of Law in addition to teaching Sociology atPalo Alto University and served as a Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the Stanford Design School.[9]
After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2005, Haney was alegislative aide for long-timeCalifornia State SenatorJoe Simitian.[8] He was the Executive Director of theUC Student Association.[8]
Haney is the former National Policy Director forThe Dream Corps.[11] In 2015, he co-founded#cut50, an Oakland-based national nonprofit designed to end mass incarceration, withVan Jones andJessica Jackson.[10][12]
In April 2012, Haney announced his candidacy for theSan Francisco Board of Education election for one of four open seats.[7] He was elected in theNovember 2012 San Francisco general election, placing fourth behind three incumbents. Haney replacedNorman Yee, who forwent re-election to run for theSan Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Upon his election, Haney was the youngest member of the commission and one of the only members of an urban school board in California under the age of 35.[8] Prior to his election, he served two years onSan Francisco Unified School District’s Public Education Enrichment Fund Community Advisory Committee and Restorative Justice Committee.[6]
Haney,Sandra Lee Fewer, andShamann Walton authored a resolution that required the district's food vendor to disclose the origin of their food products. It passed with a unanimous vote in May 2016.[13]
While serving as president of the school board, Haney proposed onTwitter thatGeorge Washington High School should be renamed to honor poetMaya Angelou, an alumna of the school. He cited objections toGeorge Washington's role as aslaveowner.[14] He alsoproposed removing but not painting over theLife of Washington mural byVictor Arnautoff inside of the school. He cited his objection to its depiction of slavery and dead Native Americans.[15] Haney and Commissioner Stevon Cook co-authored aresolution in 2018 to establish a panel to examine which schools to rename.[16]
Haney introduced a resolution calling for the end of the current all-choice-based student-assignment system.[17]
PresidentBarack Obama endorsed Haney during his re-election campaign in 2016. It was one of the 150 endorsements he made the weekend prior to the2016 United States elections. Haney was previously a volunteer for Obama's2008 presidential campaign but had not sought the endorsement.[18]
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In September 2017, Haney filed to run in the2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election to represent District 6.[11]
Haney was elected Supervisor for District 6 on November 6, 2018, receiving 14,249 first preference votes (56.24 percent of all valid votes).[19] (San Francisco hasranked choice voting.) After allocation of preferences from eliminated candidates in San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system, Haney received 63.12 percent of final-round votes, compared to 36.88 percent for runner-up Christine Johnson, a former planning commissioner.[20][21] Haney was sworn in at the Board of Supervisors' January 8, 2019, meeting, replacingJane Kim, who was ineligible to run for re-election aftertwo four-year terms.
A "progressive" majority was created upon his andGordon Mar's election to the board.[22]
Per the law, Haney resigned as supervisor before being sworn into the Legislature for the state Assembly's 17th district on May 3, 2022.[4] MayorLondon Breed appointedMatt Dorsey to fill Haney's spot as supervisor.[23]
Haney's views in housing shifted during his time on the Board of Supervisors, becoming increasingly supportive of additional housing and regulatory streamlining for housing construction.[24] During the 2018 campaign for Supervisor, Haney ran against a leader of theYIMBY movement and questioned the need for every neighborhood to build housing, stating "I'm not going to pick fights on the other side of the city."[25] Haney initially opposed state billSB 35, which streamlined housing production in cities that were falling short of state-mandated minimums, but later came to support the bill.[26] In 2021, Haney supported state action to ensure cities allow the construction of more housing, and supported a local bill to legalizefourplexes on lots zoned forsingle-family homes.[25]
In October 2021, Haney supported the construction of a 495-unit apartment complex on a parking lot next to a BART station, but was the proposal was voted down 7-4 by his colleagues.[27] That same month, Haney voted against the construction of 316 micro-homes in Tenderloin, 13.5% of which would have been designated as affordable housing.[28]
In 2020, Haney authored the nation’s first ‘Overpaid CEO Tax’ (Proposition L). The tax charges companies in San Francisco a 0.1% surcharge on their annual business taxes if their top executives earn more than 100 times more than their ‘typical local worker’.[29] The measure is one of the first in the country to address growing income inequality between workers and CEOs in the United States. This Proposition was passed during the 2020 elections with 65.18%.[30]
Haney wrote anopinion piece in theSan Francisco Chronicle endorsing a No vote onProposition 22 in 2020.[31] The proposition would have granted app-based transportation and delivery companies such as DoorDash, Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy companies an exception toAssembly Bill 5 by classifying their drivers as "independent contractors".
Haney introduced Proposition B, which amends San Francisco’s Charter to form the Department of Sanitation and Streets by splitting it from theSan Francisco Department of Public Works, in 2020. It would also create the Sanitation and Streets Commission and a Public Works Commission to provide oversight to the departments. The Board of Supervisors placed it on the ballot with a 7 to 4 vote. Proposition B passed in the November 2020 elections with 200,251 votes or 60.87%.[32]
Haney supported opening asafe injection site in his district by the Tenderloin district.[33] Haney represented the Tenderloin andSoMa, two districts within the city most impacted by fataldrug overdoses.[34]
Haney ran for the California State Assembly to serve the remainder of the term ofDavid Chiu, who vacated the seat upon his appointment asCity Attorney of San Francisco.[35] Haney and former supervisorDavid Campos garnered the most votes in the special primary on February 15, 2022, but neither had more than 50% of the vote (Haney's 36.44% to Campos's 35.67%). Both candidates thus advanced to arunoff in a special general election on April 19, 2022.[36] According to theWall Street Journal, the election centered on the issue of "Which candidate wants to build more housing."[24] Haney won the runoff with 62% of the vote, and was sworn in on May 3, 2022.
Haney is a member of theCalifornia Legislative Progressive Caucus.[37]
Haney has a brother and a sister. His sister, Erin Haney, is senior counsel for #cut50, a nonprofit he co-founded.[38]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandra Lee Fewer (incumbent) | 128,500 | 16.9 | |
| Jill Wynns (incumbent) | 106,531 | 14.0 | |
| Rachel Norton (incumbent) | 102,033 | 13.4 | |
| Matt Haney | 100,552 | 13.3 | |
| Kim Garcia-Meza | 59,930 | 7.9 | |
| Shamann Walton | 58,194 | 7.7 | |
| Sam Rodriguez | 50,554 | 6.7 | |
| Gladys Soto | 49,839 | 6.6 | |
| Beverly Ho-A-Yun Popek | 36,059 | 4.8 | |
| Victoria Lo | 35,779 | 4.7 | |
| Paul Robertson | 29,562 | 3.9 | |
| Write-in | 1,164 | 0.2 | |
| Total votes | 758,697 | 100.0 | |
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Haney (incumbent) | 175,803 | 18.9 | |
| Mark Sanchez | 155,706 | 16.7 | |
| Stevon Cook | 152,335 | 16.4 | |
| Rachel Norton (incumbent) | 129,012 | 13.9 | |
| Jill Wynns (incumbent) | 94,571 | 10.2 | |
| Trevor McNeil | 86,233 | 9.3 | |
| Phil Kim | 65,045 | 7.0 | |
| Ian Kalin | 44,788 | 4.8 | |
| Rob Geller | 25,617 | 2.8 | |
| Write-in | 1,482 | 0.2 | |
| Total votes | 930,592 | 100.0 | |
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Haney | 14,249 | 56.4 | |
| Christine Johnson | 6,237 | 24.6 | |
| Sonja Trauss | 4,759 | 18.8 | |
| Write-in | 93 | 0.4 | |
| Total votes | 25,338 | 100.0 | |
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Matt Haney | 34,174 | 36.4 | |
| Democratic | David Campos | 33,448 | 35.7 | |
| Democratic | Bilal Mahmood | 20,895 | 22.3 | |
| Democratic | Thea Selby | 5,261 | 5.6 | |
| Total votes | 93,778 | 100.0 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Matt Haney | 48,762 | 62.4 | |
| Democratic | David Campos | 29,422 | 37.6 | |
| Total votes | 78,184 | 100.0 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Matt Haney (incumbent) | 69,412 | 63.2 | |
| Democratic | David Campos | 27,270 | 24.8 | |
| Republican | Bill Shireman | 13,071 | 11.9 | |
| Total votes | 109,753 | 100.0 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Matt Haney (incumbent) | 101,891 | 69.1 | |
| Democratic | David Campos | 45,470 | 30.9 | |
| Total votes | 147,361 | 100.0 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Matt Haney (incumbent) | 90,915 | 81.9 | |
| Republican | Manuel Noris-Barrera | 13,843 | 12.5 | |
| Democratic | Otto Duke | 6,245 | 5.6 | |
| Total votes | 111,003 | 100.0 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Matt Haney (incumbent) | 169,490 | 84.6 | |
| Republican | Manuel Noris-Barrera | 30,900 | 15.4 | |
| Total votes | 200,390 | 100.0 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
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