Scott Wiener

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Wiener holds a B.S. from Duke University and a J.D. from Harvard University. His professional experience includes working as a clerk for the Supreme Court of New Jersey and as a deputy city attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.[1]

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Campaign websiteWiener's campaign website stated the following:Abolish ICE, Unmask Agents, Hold them Accountable, and Create a Pathway to CitizenshipICE has become a terror organization. We must abolish ICE and hold officials and agents accountable for lawless behavior.‍Scott is a national leader on accountability for ICE, Border Patrol, and other agencies violating the law and terrorizing communities. Scott authored and passed our nation’s first law banning ICE and other law enforcement from wearing Gestapo-like face masks they use to hide from accountability and create an atmosphere of impunity — the No Secret Police Act.Now Scott is fighting to pass the No Kings Act, which makes it much easier to sue ICE and other federal agents for violating your rights. Under current law, it’s nearly impossible to sue a federal agent for excessive force, false arrest, etc. — leading to a sense of impunity and emboldened aggression by agents toward the public. Scott is working to put an end to that impunity.Scott has long supported abolishing ICE, which is a broken agency. He first announced his support in 2018 and reiterated it in mid-2025. In Congress, he will take his state-level work national and will pursue federal reforms to:‍‍Step 1: Unmask the agents and officials waging a terror campaign on our communities.‍Step 2: Allow people to sue federal agents for violating their rights — in other words haul their a**es into court when they violate the law.‍Step 3: Abolish ICE.‍Step 4: Ban private prisons (which California, with Scott’s support, has already done), including the ICE private prison gulags.‍Step 5: Make DACA recipients citizens and create a pathway to citizenship for our immigrant communities.With armed secret police publicly executing people in the streets, we need leaders who stand up and deliver real results to protect communities from terror and violence and to fully embrace immigrant communities as key parts of American life. Chinga la migra.Safeguarding & Uplifting LGBTQ PeopleProtecting trans people — and all LGBTQ people — from Trump’s assault is at the top of Scott’s agenda.With the LGBTQ community facing a vicious and brutal assault from the Trump Administration, we need a leader who will fight relentlessly for our community. Scott is that fighter, and he has fought so hard for LGBTQ people that he has put his own personal safety at risk, experiencing repeated personal attacks by Marjorie Taylor Green, Megyn Kelly, Ted Cruz, Elon Musk, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and others, in addition to a tidal wave of death threats and physical harassment by anti-LGBTQ bigots.In Congress, Scott will fight to stop Trump’s assault on healthcare for LGBTQ people and restore access, including to transgender young people. Scott will fight to pass the Equality Act, a national civil rights law to protect LGBTQ people in every community from targeting and discrimination. Scott will work to pass legislation overriding red state anti-LGBTQ hate laws.As a gay man who came of age as a teenager during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1987, Scott knows our community has seen dark days before. The devastation of HIV/AIDS inspired Scott to volunteer for an HIV crisis hotline as a college student in North Carolina, and he advocated for transgender people as a student at Harvard Law School in the 1990s. When Scott moved to San Francisco, he was part of the core group of people who built San Francisco’s LGBT Community Center. When gay men were being raped on the streets of the Castro, Scott stepped up and helped create a community safety organization to keep people safe.In the Senate, Scott has fought to erase discriminatory laws that harmed LGBTQ people, including LGBTQ youth, transgender women, and people living with HIV. He authored nation-leading laws to make PrEP available from a pharmacist without a physician prescription (similar to the birth control pill), establish the nation’s strongest legal protections for LGBTQ seniors in nursing homes and other long-term care, collect voluntary health data to fight health disparities in the LGBTQ community, repeal discriminatory felonies targeting people living with HIV, and end discrimination against LGBTQ people on California’s broken sex offender registry.Scott has relentlessly defended LGBTQ people against the vicious attacks Trump and his MAGA cronies have unleashed. He authored the nation’s first law to make California a state of refuge for LGBTQ people — including trans youth and their families fleeing red states — and expanded privacy protections to prevent harassment and doxxing of transgender and nonbinary people. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott secured $15 million in state funds to cover gender affirming healthcare that Trump is attempting to cut from Medicaid. Scott has also obtained state budget funds to support creation of an LGBTQ history museum in the Castro, an LGBTQ music center in the Mission, a revamped Harvey Milk Plaza, and Eagle Plaza in SOMA.LegislationSB 107 (2022): Establishes California as a refuge for transgender youth and their parents, who are being criminalized in red states for seeking medically recommended gender affirming healthcare.SB 59 (2025): Protects transgender Californians from harassment and outing by automatically making legal records related to gender transition confidential.SB 497 (2025): Protects the privacy of medical data related to gender transition, and strengthens the protections of SB 107, the transgender state of refuge law.SB 957 (2023): Empowers efforts to eliminate health disparities by closing loopholes in requirements to collect LGBTQ health data.SB 219 (2017): Strengthens protections for LGBT seniors living in long-term care facilities against discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or HIV status. Later incorporated into an Executive Order issued by President Biden.SB 159 (2019): Authorizes pharmacists to furnish pre- and post- exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP) without a physician prescription and also prohibits insurance companies from requiring prior authorizations in order to obtain PrEP coverage.Protecting Health Care and ScienceScott is a leader in expanding access to health care — including creation of a Medicare for All single payer system of universal coverage — and scientific research to improve health and solve other global problems.Scott has played a key role in the fight against Trump’s effort to destroy health care access and defund science. As Senate Budget Chair, Scott helped shore up California’s health care system to protect against Trump’s health care cuts. In Congress, Scott will fight to protect and strengthen Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Scott will also bring his state-level work to force insurance companies to cover more health care more affordably, including mental health care, to the federal level. While Scott’s goal is a Medicare for All system, until we get there, we must fix and strengthen the system we have so that people can access affordable health care.Scott quickly responded to Trump’s attempt to destroy scientific research: The regime’s destruction of federal science agencies and brutal cuts to university science research. Scott built a coalition of labor unions, universities, scientists, businesses, and students to advance a massive funding measure in California to create a new scientific research institute to ensure California remains the global leader on science. In Congress, Scott will prioritize funding and supporting scientific research and innovation. Science is a pillar of American prosperity, and we must embrace it and ensure the U.S. remains the world leader.Israel and PalestinePromoting peace, ending the destruction and occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, combating antisemitism, and supporting Jewish and Palestinian communities.Scott believes Israel and Palestine must co-exist side by side in peace. There are over 7 million Jews and 7 million Palestinians living in the region, and neither is going anywhere. Endless violence, destruction, and displacement are untenable and must end. Peace is the only answer.‍‍Scott has been vocal that the Israeli government's destruction of Gaza has been utterly disproportionate, indefensible, and a moral stain.‍Scott believes the Netanyahu government’s destruction of Palestinian communities in Gaza constitutes a genocide.‍Scott strongly supports Israel’s existence as Jewish homeland and strongly opposes efforts to destroy Israel, such as Hamas’s October 7 terror attack and taking of hostages, as well as the global BDS movement.‍Scott has long opposed the Netanyahu government’s West Bank settlement policy, which is systematically dismembering the West Bank as a contiguous Palestinian community. Scott believes settlement expansions are illegal and designed to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. Settler land grabs and violence must not be tolerated.‍‍Scott is neither seeking nor accepting support from AIPAC, due to significant policy differences.‍‍Scott will not support U.S. funding for the destruction of Palestinian communities in Gaza or the West Bank and thus will not support offensive arms sales to an Israeli government not committed to peace. Scott also believes the U.S. should support Israel’s defense with defensive systems, for example, Iron Dome and David’s Sling.As a Jew whose family members fled anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe and Russia, Scott deeply believes in Israel’s critical importance to Jews globally, as Jewish homeland and home to half of all Jews on the planet. Scott also strongly believes Palestinians deserve a state in the West Bank and Gaza.Scott believes both Israel and Palestine must be governed by leadership committed to peace and democracy. As a result, Scott, who has long protested Benjamin Netanyahu and has referred to him as a “cancer,” has publicly called for a new government in Israel. Scott has also been clear that Hamas, which is a vile terrorist organization committed to Israel’s destruction and the removal of Jews, must disarm and have no role in a future Palestinian state.Scott has consistently supported Israel’s right to defend itself and also vocally opposed the Israeli government’s destruction of Gaza. For example, when Hamas began launching missiles into Israel in 2021, and Israel responded with extreme bombing of Gaza, Scott called for an end to the violence and publicly stated that Israel had gone beyond self-defense in its bombing campaign.When Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 and engaged in the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Scott immediately and vocally condemned Hamas’s pogrom and supported Israel’s right to defend itself. However, Israel quickly went beyond self-defense in its over-the-top response in Gaza. Scott began opposing Israel’s escalations in Gaza on October 13, 2023. Over time, Scott has opposed and condemned Israel’s extreme response, referring to it as “cratering an entire population,” “absolute destruction,” a “moral stain,” and a “Shanda” (Yiddish for “disgrace”). Scott has also stated his belief that the Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide.The Netanyahu government — which includes vile messianic extremists who used to be banned from being part of Israeli governments and who have made indisputably genocidal statements about Palestinians — is a barrier to peace. It is deeply harming Palestinians and also harming Israelis. It is upending Israel’s standing in the world and damaging Israeli democracy.Scott is a leader in the fight against antisemitism. He has consistently called out antisemitism on both the right and the left — whether Trump’s empowerment of antisemites and efforts to elect Nazi-aligned governments in Europe or the casting out from progressive spaces of Jews who support Israel’s existence. Scott has vocally opposed antisemitism in our local community, whether the targeting of Jewish-owned businesses, the targeting of Jewish kids in our public schools, or antisemitic atmospheres at UCSF and San Francisco State University.Scott, who helped lead the California Legislative Jewish Caucus for over five years, helped pass California’s law to address antisemitism in our schools. Scott has also vocally opposed Trump’s disingenuous and false use of antisemitism to defund universities and scientific research. Scott has been clear that when Trump disingenuously attacks universities and science in the name of the Jews — whereas he is actually doing so to further his own anti-science, anti-education MAGA ideology — it makes Jews less safe.Scott is also proud of San Francisco’s vibrant Palestinian community. Scott has condemned attacks on Palestinians and Muslims, including violence directed at the community and political attacks by MAGA Republicans and others. Scott has long championed California’s nonprofit security grant program, which has helped make both Jewish and Muslim community institutions in San Francisco more secure from hate attacks.Scott’s Video Statements on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank‍‍Scott’s video statement on genocide in Gaza‍‍Scott’s video statement on Israel, Gaza, and the West BankExamples of Scott’s Past Public Statements on Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank (all on Twitter)10/13/23 “I'm a life-long supporter of Israel & am reeling from Hamas's genocidal pogrom. Israel has a right to defend itself & hold Hamas accountable for this atrocity. Israel also must avoid civilian disaster in Gaza. Displacing >1M Gazans — half the population — is not the answer.”10/15/23 (On the Islamophobic murder of Wadea al-Fayoume) “This is absolutely vile & heartbreaking — the brutal murder of a young Palestinian boy in Illinois. Our Muslim community is part of our nation’s rich, diverse fabric & we must never normalize Islamophobic violence. Rest in peace, Wadea. You deserved so much better.”10/18/23 “With 1,400 innocents dead, Israel must hold Hamas accountable for the horror it perpetrated. But an endless ground war that destabilizes the region & imperils the lives of millions of Gazans & 360,000 Israeli soldiers is not the way to achieve that goal.”10/25/23 “Vigilante settlers are taking advantage of Israel’s war with Hamas to grab Palestinian land in the West Bank & to commit violence against Palestinians. Netanyahu is letting them get away with it. It needs to stop. West Bank settlement expansion sabotages any long-term solution.”10/27/23 “I’ve been clear about my own criticisms of Israel since the start of this war, including the settler violence in the West Bank, forced evacuation of 1.1M Gazans, escalation in Gaza & the humanitarian disaster & massive death unfolding there.”10/27/23 “It’s also beyond horrific that some members of Netanyahu’s government are calling for mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank.”12/17/23 “At a time when the world must work to end the war while bringing home all hostages, ensuring Hamas no longer runs Gaza & laying groundwork for a 2-state solution, Netanyahu again shows he’s unfit for office. Israel needs a PM committed to durable peace. Netanyahu is the opposite”12/23/23 “The discourse since the 10/7 Hamas pogrom has at times been dominated by either (1) fully supporting everything Israel does or (2) delegitimizing Israel’s existence & wanting the home of 50% of Jews on planet Earth to be eliminated. For most Jews, however, we support Israel & also criticize it & can’t stand Netanyahu. We know Hamas is a death cult. We want peace. We want Israelis & Palestinians to be able to live in peace in Israel & Palestine. We want the death cycle to end.”TransportationSCOTT IS LEADING THE FIGHT TO SAVE OUR PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS.IN CONGRESS, HE’LL FIGHT TO EXPAND SUPPORT FOR TRANSIT AND CUT RED TAPE TO DELIVER PROJECTS FASTER AND AT LOWER COST.Scott is San Francisco's foremost champion for public transportation and a 28+ year daily rider of Muni and regular rider of BART. Like you, Scott has long experienced the good, bad, and ugly of San Francisco transit.As a member of the Board of Supervisors, Scott authored a charter amendment, which the voters passed, to ensure Muni funding increases as San Francisco grows — a measure that provides about $60 millions in Muni funding annually. More recently, when these systems faced financial collapse, Scott knew he had to leave it all on the floor in the fight to save BART, Muni, and Caltrain. He stepped up to lead the fight in the Legislature for transit funding, securing billions in state funding to keep our trains and buses running on time, and authoring a law to trigger a regional ballot measure that will provide a sustainable, long-term source of funding for transit systems across the Bay Area.In Congress, Scott will be a leading champion for public transit. He’ll fight to stabilize our transit systems, expand and improve them, and fix the broken bureaucratic processes that create the unacceptable delays and cost-overruns that have become all too common in recent years. His priorities include:Increase federal investment in public transitEstablish increased, predictable, formula-based funding for transit operationsIncrease capital funding under a more predictable, formula-based approachSecure funding for transformational projects like a Westside Subway to the Richmond and Sunset, completing the Portal to connect Caltrain and High-Speed Rail downtown, expanding our bus rapid transit lane network, and more.Reform NEPA so that environmental laws are not abused to block or delay climate-friendly, sustainable transportation projectsAlign transportation funding with land use outcomes that increase ridershipLower costs of transit project delivery by reforming procurement and code requirementsCreating a national transit center of excellence within the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and strengthening the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) role as a delivery partnerREAD THE FULL PLATFORM HERELegislationSB 63 (2025): Authorizes a Bay Area regional transit funding measure on the 2026 ballotSB 288 (2020), SB 922 (2022), and SB 71 (2025): Streamlines sustainable bike, bus, light rail, pedestrian and other transportation projects.SB 960 (2024) - Complete Streets Bill: Requires Caltrans to add bike lanes, sidewalks, other active transportation, and public transit improvements on state-owned surface streets and state highways.SB 960 (2024): Complete Streets Bill: Requires Caltrans to add bike lanes, sidewalks, other active transportation, and public transit improvements on state-owned surface streets and state highways.SB 532 (2024): Mobile Parking Payment Zones PilotSB 339 (2021): Road Usage Charge pilot program - forward-thinking assessment to maintain state of good repair in the face of declining transportation revenues— Scott Wiener's campaign website (March 5, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

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"Scott Wiener - For Us 30" – Wiener campaign advertisement, released May 20, 2026

"Scott Wiener - Time in History" – Wiener campaign advertisement, released April 14, 2026

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On his campaign website, Wiener highlighted the issues listed below.[20] To read Wiener's full stances on these issues and others, see here.

Housing

Excerpt: "To address the constant and growing demand for housing, we need to find ways to encourage both market-rate and below-market-rate housing in San Francisco, as well as different kinds and sizes of housing. For years, due to a laborious entitlement process and short-sighted political decisions, our housing production has failed to keep track with our population growth, which has led to sky high rents and exceedingly expensive real estate prices. We also need to stabilize and protect our existing rent-controlled units through eviction protections. Through these two mechanisms - encouraging growth and ensuring housing stability - San Francisco can continue to grow as a city for all."

Public health

Excerpt: "We have fought to ensure continued funding for those living with and at-risk for HIV. Through Healthy San Francisco, we've significantly expanded access to health care. The Board of Supervisors is currently considering a tax on soda and other sugary drinks - a measure I'm co-authoring - to fund health, nutrition and physical activity programs and to combat the rise in diabetes and other metabolic diseases caused by the consumption of these drinks."

Transportation

Excerpt: "Transit-first does not mean making it impossible for people to drive and park. Rather, it means providing people with great choices other than driving their own vehicles, which will result in some people giving up their cars and others simply driving less. If even 5-10% of San Franciscans with cars gave up those cars to rely on other options, we would significantly reduce street congestion and make it much easier for those who continue to drive to find parking. By contrast, if we continue on our current path of under-investment, we will see an increase in cars in our city, resulting in increased congestion, less safe streets, and more competition for parking. We have a choice, and we need to make the right choice."

Public safety

Excerpt: "One of the challenges of living in a major city is to ensure good public safety. This requires a broad range of efforts, including having a robust police force, making pedestrian safety improvements, shoring up the seismic safety of our building stock, and improving our criminal justice system."