From LA Times:

In Kamala Harris’ successful, hard-fought campaign for San Francisco district attorney in 2003, the Democrat and her two rivals found rare common ground on the nationally hypercharged issue of the death penalty. All three adamantly opposed it.

Doing otherwise would have meant almost certain political excommunication in a city where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once faced catcalls for not being liberal enough. San Francisco, after all, is where wedding bells rang loudest for same-sex couples before California voters banned gay marriage and where Democrats currently outnumber Republicans six to one.
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“Labels are relative here. Our conservative is L.A.’s liberal,” said David Lee, a political science professor at San Francisco State and director of the nonpartisan Chinese American Voters Education Committee. “San Francisco voters poll so much more to the left than the rest of California that politicians have to adjust.”

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