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 alternative 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.
“On the finish of the day, this job is larger than anyone individual and what issues is that we hold transferring this Metropolis ahead,” Breed mentioned, including that she had referred to as Lurie to congratulate him. “I do know we’re each dedicated to bettering this Metropolis 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 Neighborhood, 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 unbelievable household, marketing campaign staff and each San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service, and alter,” Lurie mentioned in an announcement. “Regardless of who you supported on this election, we stand united within the battle for San Francisco’s future and a safer and extra inexpensive metropolis for all.”
Lurie pumped practically $9 million of his personal cash into his first-time bid for mayor, which drew criticism from Breed and different opponents. However he mentioned that as a political outsider, he wanted to introduce himself to voters and in the long run, some voters mentioned they preferred that Lurie’s monetary wealth shielded him from being beholden to particular pursuits.
Lurie is an inheritor to the Levi Strauss & Co. fortune by his mom, Mimi Haas, who wed Peter Haas when Daniel was a baby. Peter Haas, a great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, was a longtime CEO of the enduring clothes firm who died in 2005.
Each the Levi’s title and Haas household philanthropic foundations are deeply embedded in San Francisco’s historical past and id.
Lurie’s father, Brian Lurie, is a rabbi and longtime former government director of the San Francisco-based Jewish Neighborhood 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 a substitute of the everyday 4, after voters modified the election calendar to line up with presidential contests.
