Day Job: Member, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco and serial entrepreneur

Background: Fourth generation San Franciscan. Precociously successful in business and in politics. Founder of the Plump Jack wine and food empire. Appointed by Mayor Willie Brown first to Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, then to Board of Supervisors in 1997. Won reelection in his own right handily, currently running unopposed.

Word on the Street: At just 32 the Golden Boy of San Francisco politics. Blindingly charismatic; a media darling. Rumored to be a candidate for Mayor of San Francisco sooner or later (and more and more folks are whispering that it’s going to be sooner). Strong ties to environmental activists.

Day Job: President of Asian Week, the largest circulation Asian-American publication in the US.

Word on the Street: He’s scion of the powerful Fang publishing family. Personable and approachable. Veteran of regional transit wars. Very savvy about San Francisco politics.

Day Job: San Francisco Bar Pilot

Background: Graduated from U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1978 as a member of the Academy’s first class of women. Became the nation’s first female pilot when she joined the San Francisco Bay Bar Pilots Association in 1990. Winner of many awards and active in many civic organizations.

Word on the Street: A national symbol for equality on the waterfront but well respected in her own right by mariners and community leaders alike for her unstinting professionalism. A class act.