Scott Wiener
Candidate for U.S. Representative, Congressional District 11
Scott Wiener is a Democratic California State Senator. He has represented District 11, in San Francisco, since 2016. He served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2011 to 2016. He represented District 8 there. Wiener holds a B.A. from Duke University. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He worked as an attorney before elected office. That included serving as a deputy city attorney in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office. In the state Senate, he has chaired the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. He has also chaired the Legislative Ethics Committee. He authored housing bills including SB 35, SB 10, and SB 79, and co-authored SB 9. He has written LGBTQ-rights bills. He authored an AI safety bill, SB 1047. He also wrote California's net neutrality law. Rep. Nancy Pelosi announced she would not seek re-election. Wiener then announced his 2025 campaign for California's 11th Congressional District. He advanced from the June 2, 2026 top-two primary with 40.7% of the vote (95,816 votes) in the certified results. He finished ahead of fellow Democrat Connie Chan. He faces Chan in the November 3, 2026 general election. Born May 11, 1970. Home: San Francisco, California. Occupation: California State Senator, District 11; attorney. Prior office: current state senator, since 2016. Earlier: San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 8, 2011 to 2016. He is not a U.S. House incumbent. This is his first run for Congress.
On the issues
- Economy & Jobs
Opposes the Trump administration's use of unilateral tariffs and supports trade agreements negotiated with Congress that include worker and environmental protections; no specific stated position found on minimum wage or private-sector union policy in the federal race.
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Supports funding federal housing investment by reversing Bush- and Trump-era tax cuts on corporations and wealthy individuals, framing housing/cost-of-living affordability as a top priority.
Source → - Health & Health Care
Supports a Medicare for All single-payer system, capping insulin costs, requiring insurers to cover mental health care, reducing prior authorizations, and lowering prescription drug prices.
Source → - Immigration & Border
Supports abolishing ICE, creating a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients and other immigrants, and protecting immigrants from having their status used against them in courts, housing disputes, or by masked federal agents; no specific stated position found on general border security enforcement or refugee/asylum policy.
Source → - Reproductive & Social Issues
Supports abortion access as a matter for individuals and their doctors, and has an extensive record authoring LGBTQ-rights legislation as a state senator, including protections for transgender youth, non-binary ID options, and LGBTQ senior protections.
Source → - Education & Schools
States generally that every child deserves a high-quality education, without detailing specific federal policy on higher-education tuition, student debt, or pre-K funding.
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Supports a federal assault weapons ban, safe-storage requirements, and funding for community safety programs.
Source → - Criminal Justice & Courts
Has a state legislative record of ending mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses and eliminating a widely used sentencing enhancement; also attempted (unsuccessfully) to decriminalize certain psychedelic drugs at the state level.
Source → - Environment, Energy & Climate
Supports 100% clean energy and increased regulation of corporate polluters; recognized as a TIME100 Climate Champion in 2023 for state carbon-emissions disclosure legislation and has backed large state investments in battery storage.
Source → - Foreign Policy & Defense
Supports restoring USAID and foreign aid funding, opposes what he calls a foreign policy "driven by bloated defense budgets and interventionist impulses," supports a two-state solution and has stated Israel's Netanyahu government "has committed genocide in Gaza" while continuing to support defensive systems like Iron Dome; no specific stated position found on veterans affairs.
Source → - Technology & Privacy
Supports comprehensive federal data privacy legislation and social media regulation, and has an extensive state record on AI safety regulation (authoring California's SB 1047 AI safety bill) and net neutrality (authoring SB 822, California's net neutrality law).
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