The newly elected mayor of San Francisco promises a concerned resident that he will clean up the city
San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie promised a concerned resident that he would clean up the streets ahead of his term, after a mayoral election focused on the city’s problems of homelessness, crime and drug overdoses.
“Clean up the streets and the homeless, please,” the woman told Lurie during a walking tour of the city, according to The Wall Street Journal. Lurie replied, “We will.”
Lurie, a first-time candidate, successor 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.” Lurie beat the incumbent Mayor of 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’s our city.”
The newly elected mayor said he wanted to run for mayor because he had a hard time explaining the decline of San Francisco to his children, according to the WSJ. ((Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))
The newly elected mayor said he wanted to run for mayor because he had a hard time explaining the decline of San Francisco to his children, according to the WSJ.
“I just couldn’t stand by… This is our city. I love it with my whole being,” he said.
Lurie plans to declare a state of emergency because of the fentanyl crisisto fill San Francisco’s police force and force its City Hall employees to return to full-time personal work, according to the WSJ.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was named chairman of Lurie’s transition team, and Lurie appointed Ned Segal, former Twitter CFO, to the newly created position of head of housing and economic development.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a news conference at the future site of the Transitional 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 common sense policies.
“I’m a lifelong Democrat, but we don’t think of ourselves as progressives, moderates or conservatives here in San Francisco,” Lurie said. “We just want to get back to sanity. We have to deliver the basics and that’s my plan. That’s the mandate I was elected to serve.”
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“We need to make sure we have a fully staffed police department. We need to get our behavior and the 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 it’s a right turn. It’s a common sense approach.”
