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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 easy transition as he takes over the job.
The Associated 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.
“At the tip of the day, this job is larger than anyone individual and what issues is that we hold shifting this City ahead,” Breed mentioned, including that she had referred to as Lurie to congratulate him. “I do know we’re each dedicated to bettering this City we love.”
While 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.
Political analyst Dan Schnur mentioned there’s been a requirement nationwide for change in management.
“London Breed didn’t create the crime and homelessness crises, however voters blamed her for not fixing them,” he mentioned.
She confronted 4 big-name challengers, together with two San Francisco supervisors and a former interim mayor.
But voters flocked to Lurie, 47, a metropolis native from a storied household who pledged to deliver accountability and public service again to City Hall. He is the founding father of Tipping Point Community, which says it has invested greater than $400 million since 2005 in applications to assist folks with housing, training and early childhood.
“I’m deeply grateful to my unbelievable household, marketing campaign workforce and each San Franciscan who voted for accountability, service, and alter,” Lurie mentioned in a press release. “No matter who you supported on this election, we stand united within the combat for San Francisco’s future and a safer and extra inexpensive metropolis 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. But he mentioned that as a political outsider, he wanted to introduce himself to voters and ultimately, some voters mentioned they favored 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.
Both the Levi’s identify 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 Community Federation.
Breed gained 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 standard 4, after voters modified the election calendar to line up with presidential contests.
