LOS ANGELES TIMES -- As Uber and Lyft indicate plans to take their model national, opponents are looking for answers in progressive San Francisco, which roundly rebuked the measure with 60 percent voting no.
The measure was seen by San Francisco voters as a referendum on the companies behind it, said Jason McDaniel, an associate professor of Political Science at San Francisco State.
“The tech companies supporting Prop. 22 are quite politically unpopular here,” McDaniel said. “Many voters consider them responsible for many of the problems facing the city.”
It found support in neighborhoods associated with tech industry workers, such as the Marina and SOMA, but was defeated in the Mission District, the city’s Latino core, which has seen rampant gentrification fueled by tech industry wealth. While the industry has reshaped the city, its workforce does not dominate the electorate, McDaniel said.