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Meet the District 6 candidate: What's your No. 1 priority? 10%
By Sarah Hopkins25%
8/4/2026, 2:00:14 PM
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In our “Meet the Candidates” series, we are asking supervisorial candidates in the November 2026 election one question each week.
Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology, and more in 100 words or fewer.
For questions with yes/no answers, we have color coded them.
Green means they answered yes, red means they answered no, and yellow means they dodged the question.
Matt Dorsey is, at present, the District 6 supervisorial candidate who meets Mission Local’s coverage criteria for supervisorial races.
Matt Dorsey has represented District 6 — which covers SoMa, Mission Bay and Rincon Hill, among other neighborhoods — since May 2022, when Mayor London Breed appointed him to fill the seat vacated by Matt Haney, after Haney won election to the state Assembly.
Dorsey won a full four-year term that November, defeating challenger Honey Mahogany.
Before joining the Board of Supervisors, Dorsey spent two years as head of strategic communications for the San Francisco Police Department, and 14 years before that in the city attorney’s office.
He is publicly HIV-positive and in recovery from substance abuse — identities he has woven into his policy agenda.
Dorsey is running on what he calls a "recovery first" approach to drug programs and "full staffing" of the police department.
He has been a critic of the city's harm reduction model, authoring a "recovery-first" ordinance and pushing to make city-funded supportive housing drug-free.
He is seeking a second full term in the November 2026 election.
Our first question: What is your number-one issue this election and what do you plan to do about it?
Matt Dorsey
Job: District 6 Supervisor
Age: 61
Residency: Renter, District 6 resident since 2008
Transportation: Public transit, walking, biking
Education: Bachelor of Science in Speech, 1989, Emerson College
Languages: English
Fighting to make long-term recovery the centerpiece of San Francisco’s drug policy and programming was my #1 reason for seeking this job four years ago.
And there’s no policy priority that’ll be closer to my heart in my second term should District 6 voters re-elect me.
I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished so far — the Recovery First Ordinance, Cash Not Drugs, Drug-Free Housing, and more — but with Trump cuts to Medicaid poised to eviscerate federal support for drug treatment in 2027, we have our work cut out for us to backfill funding and protect our investments in treatment and recovery.
Endorsed by: Mayor Daniel Lurie, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Senator Scott Wiener … read more here.
Answers may be lightly edited for formatting, spelling, and grammar.
If you have questions for the candidate, please let us know at sarah@missionlocal.com // io@missionlocal.com.
You can register to vote via the sf.gov website.
Illustrations by Neil Ballard.
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