San Francisco Mayor Breed gets a major challenger. Inside Daniel Lurie's plan to beat her.

[brooklynite]

SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Lurie, a longtime nonprofit executive and an heir to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune, formally announced his challenge to Mayor London Breed on Tuesday, pledging to dramatically bolster police presence in a city roiled by homeless encampments, drug overdoses and a downtown hollowed out by the pandemic-induced tech exodus.

“We are in a crisis, and we are hurting right now,” Lurie, a Democrat, said in an interview ahead of his announcement Tuesday. “We need people to work together, and the only way you can take on an entrenched system with a leader that has allowed these problems to fester is with new leadership. It’s got to be leadership from the outside.”

With that cannon blast at San Francisco’s clubby Democratic establishment, Lurie becomes the latest fed-up centrist to challenge the prevailing progressive politics in one of America’s most important cities. Candidates campaigning against crime and quality-of-life complaints have rattled Democratic politics in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities, though with decidedly mixed results at the ballot box.

Lurie’s candidacy is a daring wager that San Francisco voters — motivated by frustration with the slow pace of progress and eager for a new direction — will reverse a tradition of elevating City Hall operators to the mayorship. His distinctive profile is that of a city government outsider with an insider’s pedigree and connections.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/26/san-francisco-mayor-challenger-daniel-lurie-00118093

[Recycle_Guru]

1. I'm good with that. She has mot done a good job of managing critical issues

not least of which are the many vacant office buildings, increased property crime and increasing drug use on the streets