- Who
Bilal Mahmood
Supervisor, District 5 Automated match, not yet reviewed- Said
- "THIS MEASURE GIVES SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DECIDE WHETHER A TRANSFER TAX CODE SHOULD REFLECT THE WAY TODAY'S REAL ESTATE" …
- Donor
- Govern For California voter guide on the organisation's own site.
“San Francisco's commercial real estate market is already under tremendous stress, and adding transfer taxes to” … source
- Money
- $10,500 to Bilal Mahmood for DCCC Member…$7,500 to Bilal Mahmood for Supervisor…Schedule A; each committee's own total, never summed.
- Speaker credit: low
- Topic match: high
- Donor priority: high
- Money tie: low
Why these confidence levels
- Speaker credit: low. Doubt in the credit is high: No caption cue spells the speaker's surname.
- Topic match: high. 2 shared words or phrases: "real estate market", "transfer tax".
- Donor priority: high. The donor's own words, not a report of them (source: voter guide on the organisation's own site).
- Money tie: low. Bilal Mahmood for DCCC Member…: own committee, for another office (Democratic County Central Committee) (the weakest of 2 committees).
Not yet reviewed by a person: automated match Wording is the city's caption transcript, re-read word for word; it has not been checked against the recording.
The official
Bilal Mahmood
Supervisor, District 5
San Francisco official, as the city's roster has them.
The official's exact words
"THIS MEASURE GIVES SAN FRANCISCO VOTERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DECIDE WHETHER A TRANSFER TAX CODE SHOULD REFLECT THE WAY TODAY'S REAL ESTATE MARKET OPERATES RATHER THAN THE MARKET THAT EXISTED DECADES AGO."
Budget and Finance Committee, 2026-07-15, transcript time 02:52:31 to 02:52:42
The donor's priority
Govern For California: stated priority
Tie to the donor recognised by name only (15 giver names as filed); the FPPC ids on those rows do not resolve in the Filers dataset.
voter guide on the organisation's own site.
Proposition J, Foreclosure Transfer Tax: NO
"San Francisco's commercial real estate market is already under tremendous stress, and adding transfer taxes to foreclosures and distressed property workouts would make matters worse. The city should be encouraging capital to return to its struggling real estate market, not making it more expensive to invest."
page dated 2026-10-21; source page; retrieved 2026-10-30
Money in
$10,500 Schedule A to Bilal Mahmood for DCCC Member 2024 (filer 208655996)
own committee, for another office (Democratic County Central Committee); 4 rows, 2024-01-29 to 2024-02-06
| Given | Filing (version) | Filed | Amount | Giver as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-29 | 210655413 (v1) | 2024-02-22 | $1,000 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - EAST BAY CHAPTER |
| 2024-01-29 | 210655413 (v1) | 2024-02-22 | $1,500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - BAY AREA CHAPTER |
| 2024-01-29 | 210655413 (v1) | 2024-02-22 | $5,000 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER |
| 2024-02-06 | 210655413 (v1) | 2024-02-22 | $3,000 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SIERRA CHAPTER |
| 2024-01-29 | 209936092 (v1) | 2024-01-30 | $1,500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - BAY AREA CHAPTER (24-hour report repeating a Schedule A row (not counted)) |
| 2024-01-29 | 209936092 (v1) | 2024-01-30 | $1,000 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - EAST BAY CHAPTER (24-hour report repeating a Schedule A row (not counted)) |
| 2024-01-29 | 209936092 (v1) | 2024-01-30 | $5,000 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER (24-hour report repeating a Schedule A row (not counted)) |
| 2024-02-06 | 210411535 (v1) | 2024-02-07 | $3,000 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SIERRA CHAPTER (24-hour report repeating a Schedule A row (not counted)) |
Schedule A total for this committee: $10,500 in 4 rows.
4 24-hour repeats of a Schedule A row, listed, not counted.
$7,500 Schedule A to Bilal Mahmood for Supervisor 2024 (filer 209865652)
own committee; 15 rows, 2024-05-01 to 2024-09-26
| Given | Filing (version) | Filed | Amount | Giver as filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-01 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER |
| 2024-05-01 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SANTA CRUZ CHAPTER |
| 2024-05-01 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SIERRA CHAPTER |
| 2024-05-01 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - PALO ALTO CHAPTER |
| 2024-05-01 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - BAY AREA CHAPTER |
| 2024-05-01 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - GOLDEN GATE CHAPTER |
| 2024-05-10 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - CALIFORNIA BUSINESS COALITION |
| 2024-05-16 | 213049667 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - COMMON SENSE CHAPTER |
| 2024-08-16 | 213049699 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - MARIN CHAPTER |
| 2024-08-19 | 213049699 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - FUTURE GENERATIONS CHAPER |
| 2024-08-20 | 213049699 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER |
| 2024-08-26 | 213049699 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION CHAPTER |
| 2024-08-26 | 213049699 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - SANTA BARBARA CHAPTER |
| 2024-08-26 | 213049699 (v2) | 2025-01-31 | $500 | GFC COURAGE COMMITTEE - EAST BAY CHAPTER |
| 2024-09-26 | 212414131 (v1) | 2024-10-24 | $500 | GOVERN FOR CALIFORNIA COURAGE COMMITTEE |
Schedule A total for this committee: $7,500 in 15 rows.
One line per receiving committee; totals are never summed across committees. Retrieved 2026-10-30 from the Ethics Commission's Transactions dataset (data loaded through 2026-10-30).
Reading, not a finding. Speaker-credit doubt: high.
In common: Same measure: Prop J, the foreclosure exemption in the real property transfer tax. Where they differ: Different positions on the text: the quote presents the measure as bringing the transfer tax code up to date; the donor's page says NO on Prop J. (My reading of the quote; the donor's side is its own words.) No cause is claimed.
Who is speaking: Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor, District 5. The chair is told at 02:52:22 'TODAY WE HAVE SUPERVISOR' and the next row reads 'BALA MAMU HERE'; the captions render the name phonetically. The speaker then thanks 'MY CO SPONSORS SUPERVISOR DORSEY MELGAR, CHEN WANG AND WALTON' (02:53:17 to 02:53:24), naming others and not himself. The text alone does not spell the surname; the credit rests on the sponsor record outside the transcript.
Doubt in the credit: No caption cue spells the speaker's surname. Two pages read on 2026-10-30 name Supervisor Mahmood as the measure's introducer, which the sponsor list in the speaker's thanks fits.
Caption rows that name the speaker
02:52:22>> MADAM CHAIR, THANK YOU AND TODAY WE HAVE SUPERVISOR02:52:27BALA MAMU HERE. >> WELCOME TO THE CHAMBER.02:52:30>> THANK YOU CHAIR CHIN AND THANK YOU COLLEAGUES AS02:53:17CONVERSATION. I WANT TO THANK MY CO SPONSORS02:53:21SUPERVISOR DORSEY MELGAR, CHEN WANG AND WALTON FOR STANDING
Highlighted: words literally in both the quote and the donor's words ("real estate market", "transfer tax").
Sources: transcript (Budget and Finance Committee, 2026-07-15, retrieved 2026-10-29);
donor page:
www.governforcalifornia.org;
filing ids, Transactions dataset: 210655413, 212414131, 213049667, 213049699; money retrieved 2026-10-30.