(8 Nov 2024)
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San Francisco – 8 November 2024
1. Daniel Lurie speaking at news conference surrounded by supporters
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Lurie, philanthropist:
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"Your voices and your call for accountable leadership, service and change have been heard. I stand before you humbled and inspired with the great honor and privilege of serving you, the people of San Francisco, as your next mayor."
3. People attending Lurie news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Lurie, philanthropist:
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"Our mandate is to show how government must deliver on its promises. Clean and safe Streets for all. Tackling our drug and Behavioral Health Crisis. Shaking up the corrupt and ineffective bureaucracy. Building enough housing so our neighbors can afford to live here. Supporting our small businesses. And breathing life back into downtown."
5. Supporters at news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Lurie, philanthropist:
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"As we celebrate this victory, I recognize that many feel a great sense of fear and loss about the state of our country. I share those concerns under my watch. San Francisco. San Francisco will stand up for the rights of all of our neighbors. We will never turn a blind eye to racism, bigotry or anti-Asian hate."
STORYLINE:
Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and philanthropist who has never held public office, promised on Friday that as mayor, he would deliver safe and clean streets, help struggling small businesses and bring an end to the open-air drug markets that have tarnished San Francisco’s image in recent years.
“Your voices and your call for accountable leadership, service and change have been heard,” said Lurie at a park in San Francisco’s Chinatown, delivering his first public remarks since San Francisco Mayor London Breed called him the previous day to concede the race for mayor.
The Associated Press has not declared a winner in Tuesday’s election because tens of thousand of ballots have not yet been counted and added to the ranked choice voting calculations.
But on Friday, Lurie held a commanding lead in early election results, a remarkable ascent for an anti-poverty nonprofit founder with little name recognition who ran as a political outsider and bested two San Francisco supervisors and a former interim mayor to unseat an incumbent mayor.
His deep pockets helped. Lurie spent nearly $9 million of his own money on his first-time campaign for mayor ands raised more than $16 million, including $1 million from his mother Mimi Haas. Lurie is the step-son of the late Peter Haas, a great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss and longtime CEO of the iconic clothing company.
His opponents on the campaign trail trashed Lurie for spending so much money, but his supporters did not seem to mind, nor did they seem bothered by his lack of experience in government.
Lurie, 47, said he plans to put his holdings into a blind trust and not take the mayor’s $375,000 annual salary.
On policy, he does not differ much from Breed. Both are moderate Democrats and Lurie said he wants to build more housing, crack down on drug dealers, get homeless people off the streets and take a compassionate yet firm approach to drug users who refuse help.
But he said that as a political outsider, he would bring a critical eye to bureaucracy, weed out nonprofits and department heads who fail to deliver, and focus on results.
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