Setting the Record Straight

Saikat has lived in San Francisco for over a decade.

Saikat moved to San Francisco when he was 23. Scott Wiener moved here when he was 27. They both choose to call this city home. And one thing we all love about San Francisco is that it’s a place that welcomes everyone.

A super PAC funded by tech billionaires sent mailers claiming Saikat is "from Maryland." The truth: Saikat first moved to San Francisco in 2009 to work as a software engineer, and has owned a home here since 2013. He’s raising a daughter in San Francisco. He joined the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2015, which sent him across the country, and then ran Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign in New York before serving as her Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C. — but returned home to San Francisco right after in 2019 and has been here continuously since. Overall, he has lived in San Francisco for over a decade.

The Maryland house at the center of the attack? He bought it for his parents. He never lived there. And it was correctly listed as a second home for his parents on his mortgage documents, property insurance documents, and individual tax returns. There was a clerical error on one document prepared by the developers, which he corrected as soon as he learned about it.

Saikat and his wife live in Duboce Triangle, where they are raising their family and are active members of the community. He has spent years supporting non-profits doing good work in San Francisco such as the SF-Marin Food Bank, Housing Accelerator Fund, NPH, the Chinese Hospital, and many others.