Newly elected San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie promised a concerned resident he would clean up the streets before leaving office, following a mayoral election that highlighted the city’s problems with homelessness, crime and drug overdoses.
“Clean the streets and the homeless please,” one woman told Lurie during a walking tour of the city. Wall Street Journal. Lurie replied, “We will.”
Lurie, a first-time candidate, heir to Levi Strauss and founder of an anti-poverty nonprofit, said during the campaign that “it’s time to end the perception that lawlessness is an acceptable part of life in San Francisco is.” Lurie defeated the incumbent Mayor London Breed in November.
“We are the greatest city in the world when we are at our best,” Lurie said during the walk, according to the WSJ. “If I had to bet on a city that will come back stronger and better than ever, it would be our city.”
The newly elected mayor said he wanted to run for mayor because he found it difficult to explain San Francisco’s decline to his children, according to the WSJ. ((Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))
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The newly elected mayor said he wanted to run for mayor because he found it difficult to explain San Francisco’s decline to his children, according to the WSJ.
“I just couldn’t stand it… This is our city. I love it with my whole being,” he said.
Lurie plans to declare a state of emergency about the fentanyl crisisis replenishing the San Francisco Police Department and bringing its City Hall employees back to work full-time, according to the WSJ.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was named chairman of Lurie’s transition team, and Lurie named Ned Segal, Twitter’s former chief financial officer, head of housing and economic development in a newly created position.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a press conference at the future site of a Transitional Age Youth Navigation Center on January 15, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Getty)
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After Lurie’s 10-point win over Breed, he told CNN he wanted to come back for a policy of common sense.
“I’m a lifelong Democrat, but we don’t consider ourselves progressive, moderate or conservative here in San Francisco,” Lurie said. “We just want to get back to common sense. We have to deliver the basics, and that is my plan. That is the mandate for which I was elected.”
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“We need to make sure we have a fully staffed police department. We need to get our behavioral health and drug crisis in our city under control,” he added. “We need to make sure our small businesses can thrive. Our big businesses need to come back to San Francisco. We need to be open for business again. I don’t believe this is a turn to the right. That’s a common sense approach.”
