Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie delivers first remarks as San Francisco Mayor-elect, shares vision for city

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie celebrated his victory on Friday in a speech and press convention in Chinatown, a day after incumbent London Breed conceded.

Lurie thanked his household and supporters and promised to construct a “world class administration.”

“We have now to deal with our academics, our police, our firefighters and our nurses,” he mentioned to a crowd of between 100-200 folks below a transparent, sunny sky at St. Mary’s Sq.. “We have now to help neighborhood small companies, appeal to enterprise again downtown and foster a house for arts and tradition.”

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He mentioned he would declare a fentanyl state of emergency on his first day in workplace, with out providing additional particulars about what that may entail. He additionally mentioned he could be assembly one-on-one with each division head in coming months to debate who would stay of their positions as soon as a transition takes place, and emphasised that Breed remains to be the mayor till January.

There are nonetheless excellent votes to rely, however Lurie’s win turned obvious after unofficial outcomes confirmed him with a lead of 119,440 votes to Breed’s 93,079 (56.2% to 43.8%) as of Thursday night time after ranked-choice outcomes eradicated different candidates and shifted votes to voters’ subsequent highest choice. It took 14 rounds of elimination for Lurie to safe victory, which is gained after a candidate passes the 50% mark.

Lurie mentioned Breed referred to as him on Thursday afternoon in a “gracious” concession name, and thanked her for her service to town, saying he had little doubt about how a lot she cared about San Francisco.

It’s the first time since 1991 that an incumbent mayor has been unseated.

Lurie is an inheritor to the Levi Strauss property, a father of two and a San Francisco native. He based and served because the CEO of the nonprofit group Tipping Level Group in 2005 to deal with anti-poverty initiatives similar to housing, schooling and job coaching.

He credited robust help among the many Asian American Pacific Islander neighborhood and town’s westside residents for his win.

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The election introduced in substantial quantities of cash to the mayoral race and for propositions that had been on the poll.

Lurie raised greater than $9.6 million, together with thousands and thousands in contributions from himself and his household. He was additional boosted by a political motion committee that introduced in over $6.6 million.

Breed, in the meantime, had the backing of billionaire and former New York Metropolis mayor Michael Bloomberg and raised a complete of roughly $2.3 million, about half of which was public financing, and obtained the help of one other political motion committee that raised about $3.1 million.

Three different candidates raised over $1 million, together with Supervisor Ahsha Safai, Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin, and former interim mayor and supervisor Mark Farrell.

However regardless of the massive haul, a volunteer for Lurie’s marketing campaign, Stephen Yu, who attended Friday’s victory speech, mentioned cash was not the explanation Lurie gained his help.

“Cash is one factor, however folks’s help is crucial half,” Yu mentioned. “Cash can’t purchase something. Cash can’t purchase justice. Cash can’t purchase what’s principally proper and what’s principally improper, what’s morally proper, what’s morally improper.”

Yu mentioned many relations had moved out of San Francisco not too long ago and he, too, was considering of leaving due to the state of town. Yu mentioned that feeling modified when he met Lurie, and that his message of change and public security made him really feel hopeful.

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Lurie’s message of getting powerful on public security and revitalizing enterprise within the metropolis was sufficient to placate even some who supported different candidates, similar to Larry Mazzola Jr., president of the San Francisco Constructing and Development Trades Council and a member of United Affiliation of Plumbers and Pipefitters Native 38.

Mazzola’s union supported Farrell and Safai, however he mentioned his response to Lurie’s win was “happiness.” He was optimistic about how the brand new administration would work with native organized labor and implement an agenda of reform.

“He simply mentioned to me, ‘we have now loads of work to do.’ And I imagine that town wanted a change in an enormous method from the earlier administration, and I believe that Daniel has it in him to make some critical adjustments to get town in a brighter course,” Mazzola mentioned.

Mazzola mentioned he hoped the brand new administration would construct extra housing and use native labor, appeal to extra enterprise to town by internet hosting extra conventions, replenish resorts, and get town off the information and again to the “shining beacon that it was.”

Lurie additionally spoke about Donald Trump’s win within the presidential race, each in his personal speech and in response to a reporter’s query. He mentioned that whereas he had disagreements with Trump, he wouldn’t let that get in the best way of addressing the issues that town was going through.

However he additionally mentioned he would “have the again” of all San Franciscans.

“Underneath my watch, San Francisco will get up for the rights of all of our neighbors,” Lurie mentioned. “We are going to by no means flip a blind eye to racism, bigotry or anti-Asian hate.”

Lurie can be sworn in as San Francisco’s forty sixth mayor on Jan. 8.