CA Senator Scott Wiener Files Paperwork To Run For Rep. Pelosi’s Seat in 2028
Wiener may also run in 2026 depending on if Pelosi is in the race
By Evan Symon, June 28, 2025 2:45 am
California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) filed paperwork on Friday announcing his intent on running for Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 11th District Congressional seat in 2028.
According to the filing, while he intends to run in 2028, Wiener can easily transfer campaign funds to 2026 if needed in case Pelosi decides not to run for re-election next year. Sen. Wiener made clear in a statement on Friday that both options are on the table, meaning either that Pelosi plans to retire by 2028, or that he will face her head on in a primary. His current Senate term, which began in 2024 following reelection, is set to end in 2028, making a move from the State Senate in Sacramento to Congress in Washington smooth without the need for a special election.
“I’ve been clear that I intend to run for this seat whenever the race opens up, whether in 2026 or 2028,” said Wiener in a statement. “This filing is a critical step to prepare for the serious work of running to succeed one of the icons of American politics.
“In a potential race against extremely wealthy candidates who can self-fund, I’ll have to work very hard to prepare to go toe to toe. I’ve dedicated my life to the people of San Francisco and our core values, and representing our great city in Congress — as we fight for our democracy, health care, housing, and basic civil rights — would be a deep honor.”
When mentioned that Pelosi has already filed for 2026, Wiener stayed on message and said that it would either be 2026 or 2028.
“I love what I’m doing in the State Senate, and we have a great member in Congress, Nancy Pelosi,” added Wiener. “I’ve been very clear that if and when, whenever the Speaker decides that its time to step aside that I’m prepared to run and represent the great city of San Francisco. But we’re not there at that point and I’m very focused on my work and Senate budget chair and trying to make life better for Californians.”
Wiener, who is originally from New Jersey, moved to San Francisco in 1997. He was an attorney until 2010, when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. As a Supervisor, Wiener quickly proved to be controversial through with many pet projects focusing on public transportation and housing. He was also known for backing an ordinance in 2016 that boycotted 30 states over LGBT issues, only for it to be repealed in 2023 after it was found that it was increasing costs in the city by 20%.
Wiener looks at a Congressional run
That year he was elected to the State Senate, beginning an even more controversial tenure. Amongst bills he put forward was the SB 50 dense housing bill, a bill aimed at giving cash rewards for meth addicts, a bill that would end single-family zoning in the state, and multiple bills attempting decriminalization of certain drugs. Some bills proved so controversial that fellow Democrats wouldn’t back them, with Governor Gavin Newsom vetoing many of his bills at signing time each year.
Despite his many controversies, San Francisco voters have elected him over and over again. In 2016 he defeated fellow Democratic Board of Supervisors member Jane Kim 51%-49% for the Senate seat. In 2020, against another Democrat, he won with 57%. And in 2024, when facing off with a Republican, he garnered nearly 78% of the vote.
During this time, Wiener hasn’t made it a secret that he sees himself as Pelosi’s successor. In 2023, he even explored a possible run against Pelosi in the 2024 election, before pulling out. But with Pelosi 85 years old, and being 88 in 2028, Wiener opted to go with a strategic move and hedge his bets, setting up potential runs in the next few election cycles as his final Senate term winds down to 2028.
Currently, Wiener has around $900,000 in war chest funds for a 2026 or 2028 run. And while he may not face Nancy Pelosi, there are others currently in the mix. Saikat Chakrabarti, the former campaign manager and chief of staff for Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has already filed to run for the seat in 2026. Pelosi’s daughter, political consultant Christine Pelosi, has also been mentioned as a possible candidate. Should Wiener face them in a primary, victory would be by no means guaranteed, as Wiener has a history of close races when it comes to facing fellow Democrats.
Other candidates are likely to enter the race soon, as this would be the first time that the seat would be open for candidates since Pelosi first won the San Francisco-centric seat back in 1987.
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Thank God there is a functioning WH executive.
California is fast becoming the House of Saddam, UDAY and Qusay.
How about doing California a favor, Scott, and go back to running for president of your local NAMBLA chapter instead???
We don’t need your influence in California politics, thank you very much….
Now all 49 states will be laughing at California, not just 39.
He must have the machine behind him or he would not risk a failure.
Uugh!
Yes, he must have some assurance that a very big San Francisco voting block.will turn out.
I do wonder who Rose Park had as her successor to crown all politicians coming out of SF?
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/how-sf-aapi-political-power-works-after-death-of-rose-pak/article_37ff5012-1d35-11ef-af46-2f56c5abac09.html
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*Rose Pak not Rose Park.
This district is comprised of 30% Asian.
I guess we will see if Wiener shifts his allegiance/interests from the Castro district to the Sunset and China town interests. That should be interesting and very telling.
Just a little trivia:
2024 Election results in this district
82% vote for Harris vs 14% Trump
84% vote for Adam Schiff as Senator.
If Asian voters have now coalesced around public safety and education, hopefully they’ll wake up and see the criminal Democrat thug mafia will never address those issues because they’re all about coddling criminals, forcing Marxist/gender ideology in public schools, and conjuring up affirmative action schemes that discriminate against high achieving Asian students.
Readers here at the Globe — and in fact most Californians —- don’t really need to be told that Sen Scott Wiener leaves a wide path of destructive legislation in his wake. I challenge anyone to name a constructive, helpful bill that has had his name on it. You know —– something, ANYTHING, that has been or would be good for California and Californians. Every bill or bill-become-law that I can think of has had to do with pushing harmful cross-sex hormones and mutilating transgender surgery — and calling it all “gender-affirming” —- on confused brainwashed minor children, or killing single-family suburban neighborhoods with gigantic stack-and-pack rabbit-hutch housing, or making sure that adults can get their hands on minors for sexual purposes with impunity, or making sure that HIV-positive individuals can infect others with impunity — and more.
Sensible people in the Bay Area are going to have to devote themselves to making sure this mega-destructive, troubled person — Scott Wiener — does not represent their district in the U.S. Congress. They may have to focus on overcoming any planned election cheating by e.g., combating low voter turnout and other shenanigans that may go on so that interested parties can “install” him in the seat. With luck CA will be more sane by then and some of these election issues addressed.
Yep, being installed with Democrat voter fraud is the only way creepy Scott Wiener gets into Pelosi’s seat. No one in their right mind wants a calculating ingrate carpetbagging lawyer from back east like him who is a radical leftist member of the alphabet rainbow mafia and who obsesses over vulnerable youth (especially if they’re male). He needs to stay in his crypt!
Stay! Stay! Good Wiener. Ha
Notwithstanding one form of vacancy, filing to occupy another form of vacancy, I honestly doubt that feminists in Pelosi’s district are too excited about the prospect of sending Wiener to Washington and pretending he is advancing their interests.
I’ve observed, that because fiat announced collectively toward us at the Guber’s podium contain such terse language, signed documents require less space, facilitating paper reduction. I hope this trend doesn’t create typical “progressive” consequences, or worse yet, cause Scott to form another logical rational, and ultimately experiment with the kind rolled on a tube. Hold your nose and imagine…decompaction completed then a reach for the first page, Voila! new policy ideation and the self serving Hell-why-didn’t-I-ever-think-of-this-before moment. A newer, simpler method to file myriad legal papers and at the same time, save tax dollars by unburdening the water treament facilities.
San Francisco history indicates that Rep. Nancy Pelosi will retain her seat until she a) resigns to accept a higher office, b) dies in office, or c) is defeated for re-election.b The only US Representative from SF who did not seek re-election was Mae Nolan in 1924, who was the widow of the previous incumbent. (Nancy succeeded Sala Burton who died in office, who succeeded Phillip Burton who died in office, who succeeded John F Shelley who resigned to become Mayor of SF, who succeeded Richard J Welch who died in office, who succeeded Lawrence J. Flaherty, who died in office, who succeeded Mae Nolan, who succeeded her husband John I. Nolan, who died in office, who was elected in 1912 to a new SF congressional distirct. May Nancy live to be over 100!