Scott Wiener

Scott Wiener is one of two climate champions running in the Democratic primary for the toss up House race for California's 11th Congressional District.

ON THE ISSUES

• Will advocate for a transition to clean energy
• Committed to bold climate action

WHY THIS RACE MATTERS

• Climate champion Saikat Chakrabarti is also running in the Democratic primary
• Holding this seat in California will help win a pro-environmental majority in the House, making it easier to pass climate legislation at the federal level

CANDIDATE BACKGROUND

Scott Wiener is running to represent California’s 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He has served California as a State Senator, member of the Board of Supervisors, Deputy City Attorney, and longtime community leader. He has championed policies to improve affordability and make San Franciscans safer, happier, healthier, and more secure.

In the State Senate, he helped pass legislation to require cities to implement instantaneous app-based permitting for rooftop solar projects, and to streamline permitting for clean transportation projects such as light rail, rapid bus service, and bike and pedestrian safety projects. He passed a historic law to force California’s transportation department (Cal Trans) to prioritize bike and pedestrian safety improvements on state-owned roads (e.g., 19th Ave., Van Ness, Lombard, and Park Presidio). He passed the largest investment in battery storage in California history — helping to prevent blackouts and speed solar and wind adoption — and fought to ban fracking across the state. He was named a TIME100 Climate Champion in 2023 after he took on the biggest corporations in the world and passed first-in-the-nation legislation to force them to publicly disclose their carbon emissions.

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. He played a key role securing billions of dollars in state funding to keep San Francisco’s trains and buses running on time, and authored a law to trigger a regional ballot measure that will provide transit across the Bay Area with a sustainable long-term source of funding.