SF rejects hard-left governance: Breed out, Lurie in

Moderate Daniel Lurie, scion of the Levi-Strauss fortune and leader of anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community, takes over as SF mayor. Image by Wikimedia Commons

Homelessness everywhere. Lax law enforcement. Absurd housing prices and regulations. Nonprofit grifting on a massive scale. The boutique suburb to the north finally unburdens itself of decades of over-the-edge progressive policies and selects a new centrist mayor. From SF Standard.

Mayor London Breed is done.

Daniel Lurie, nonprofit founder and heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, has won the San Francisco mayor’s race, unseating the six-year incumbent.

San Franciscans turned against Breed. Those political headwinds proved insurmountable.

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Voters dismayed by homelessness, rampant property crime, and seeming dysfunction at City Hall have taken their frustrations out on incumbents, recalling District Attorney Chesa Boudin and giving Breed low marks on her performance as mayor.

The state of the city was fertile ground for challengers.

“I’m deeply grateful to my incredible family, campaign team and every San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service, and change,” Lurie said in a statement.

The constant drum of scandals also took their toll on the mayor. Her signature program, the Dream Keeper Initiative, saw its executive director Sheryl Davis resign after The Standard revealed she had signed off on $1.5 million in contracts to her romantic partner, and The Chronicle revealed that Davis had also mishandled other contract funds.

It’s easy to say Breed’s implosion was self-inflicted. But it would be remiss to forget that voters across the country broadly sounded the need for change. 

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