By Janie Har | Related Press
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s first Black feminine mayor, London Breed, conceded the race for mayor to Levi Strauss inheritor Daniel Lurie on Thursday, pledging a clean transition as he takes over the job.
The Related Press has not but declared a winner as a result of tens of thousand of ballots haven’t but been counted and added to the ranked selection voting calculations.
Breed, who was raised by her grandmother in public housing, couldn’t overcome deep voter discontent and was trailing Lurie, a philanthropist and anti-poverty nonprofit founder.
“At the end of the day, this job is bigger than any one person and what matters is that we keep moving this City forward,” Breed stated, including that she had known as Lurie to congratulate him. “I know we are both committed to improving this City we love.”
Whereas San Francisco’s streets have been cleaner and homeless tents a lot tougher to search out in current months, Breed’s fellow Democratic challengers on the marketing campaign path repeatedly hammered her administration for doing too little, too late as homeless tent encampments, open-air drug use and brazen retail theft proliferated throughout her six years in workplace.
She confronted 4 big-name challengers, together with two San Francisco supervisors and a former interim mayor.
However voters flocked to Lurie, 47, a metropolis native from a storied household who pledged to carry accountability and public service again to Metropolis Corridor. He’s the founding father of Tipping Level Group, which says it has invested greater than $400 million since 2005 in applications to assist individuals with housing, training and early childhood.
“I’m deeply grateful to my incredible family, campaign team and every San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service, and change,” Lurie stated in an announcement. “No matter who you supported in this election, we stand united in the fight for San Francisco’s future and a safer and more affordable city for all.”
Lurie pumped almost $9 million of his personal cash into his first-time bid for mayor, which drew criticism from Breed and different opponents. However he stated that as a political outsider, he wanted to introduce himself to voters and ultimately, some voters stated they favored that Lurie’s monetary wealth shielded him from being beholden to particular pursuits.
Each the Levi’s identify and Haas household philanthropic foundations are deeply embedded in San Francisco’s historical past and identification.
Lurie’s father, Brian Lurie, is a rabbi and longtime former government director of the San Francisco-based Jewish Group Federation.
Breed received election as mayor in June 2018 to serve out the rest of Mayor Ed Lee’s time period.
She was reelected in 2019 to a full time period that has lasted 5 years as an alternative of the everyday 4, after voters modified the election calendar to line up with presidential contests.
