SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) received bomb threats at his Castro neighborhood home and at his office, he stated in a press release Tuesday.

“Early this morning, I was informed by the San Francisco Standard and the police that someone had issued a bomb threat against me, listing my specific home address and also threatening to shoot up my Capitol office,” Wiener stated. “The email said ‘we will f—— kill you’ and called me a pedophile and groomer.”

Wiener was a target of a bomb threat earlier this year. In a separate incident, a San Ramon man was found guilty in September for threatening to kill him.

Wiener, who is gay and Jewish, has been a frequent target of homophobic and anti-Semitic statements on social media. Legislation that Wiener proposed, which was since signed into law, in the areas of transgender rights and the California sex offender registry, has led to his being targeted, the senator stated.

“This latest wave of death threats against me relates to my work to end discrimination against LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system and my work to ensure the safety of transgender children and their families,” Wiener stated. “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and MAGA activist Charlie Kirk recently tweeted homophobic lies about me, falsely accusing me of supporting pedophiles and child ‘mutilation.’”

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The sex offender law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020, did not change any criminal penalties, but did allow those convicted of sexual relations that are not penile-vaginal sexual intercourse with a minor of the same sex the ability to ask a judge they not be placed on the sex offender registry , provided the minor was 14 or above and they were within 10 years of the age of the minor.

With regard to penile-vaginal intercourse, this had been the case for some time, but the ability to petition a judge did not exist in cases where there’d been oral, rectal or digital penetration. Misunderstandings about the law have been prevalent on social media, the Associated Press reports.

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The most recent threat to Wiener’s life came in the aftermath of a massacre at a Colorado gay bar and a warning to the LGBTQ and Jewish communities from the United States Department of Health and Human Services regarding their safety.

“The extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that has escalated on social media and right wing media outlets has real world impacts. It leads to harassment, stalking, threats, and violence against our community. People are dying as a result. Responsible political leaders on the right must call it out and stop tolerating it,” Wiener stated. “I will always fight for the LGBTQ community — and for the community as a whole — and will never let these threats stop that work.”

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Residents of some of San Francisco’s most popular and troubled neighborhoods are electing a new state assembly member in a special runoff race Tuesday between two Democrats.

The runoff is being held because neither Matt Haney nor David Campos received more than 50% of the vote in February’s special election. Haney, a current San Francisco supervisor, Beat Campos, a former supervisor, by less than a percentage point.

Assembly District 17 covers the eastern half of San Francisco and includes tourist-heavy neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Haight-Ashbury, downtown and the Mission. It also includes the tenderloin, which is a hot spot for homelessness and illicit drug use.

Both candidates are on the progressive end of the Democratic Party.

Since February, Haney has received the endorsement of third-place candidate Bilal Mahmood, and Campos has received the backing of fourth-place candidate Thea Selby. The mayor has endorsed Haney, whose replacement on the board of supervisors she would pick if he wins.

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Tuesday’s winner will have to run again in the statewide June primary and November general elections to keep the seat for another two-year term, meaning residents of the district could vote on the race up to four separate times this year.

The seat became vacant last year after David Chiu resigned to become San Francisco’s city attorney, a job that became available when Mayor London Breed appointed then-city attorney Dennis Herrera to head the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission after Harlan Kelly resigned in 2020.

Kelly left after federal prosecutors charged him with fraud for allegedly accepting bribes from a permit expediter in exchange for insider information. Kelly is fighting the charge and is just one of several city officials and contractors ensnared in a public corruption scandal involving former public works director Mohammed Nuru.

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