San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie promised a concerned resident that he would clean up the streets before his term, after a mayoral election centered around the city's problems of homelessness, crime and drug overdoses.
“Clean up the streets and the homeless, please,” one woman told Lori during a walking tour of the city. Wall Street Journal. “We will,” Laurie replied.
“It's time to end the perception that chaos is an acceptable part of life in San Francisco,” Lurie, a first-time candidate, heir to Levi Strauss and founder of an anti-poverty nonprofit, said on the campaign trail. Lowry beat the incumbent Mayor of London born in November.
“We are the greatest city in the world when we are at our best,” Lowry said during the walk, according to the Wall Street Journal. “If I had to bet on a city that would come back stronger and better than ever, it would be ours.”
The city's mayor-elect said he wanted to run for mayor because he had difficulty explaining San Francisco's decline to his children, according to the Wall Street Journal. ((Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))
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The city's mayor-elect said he wanted to run for mayor because he had difficulty explaining San Francisco's decline to his children, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“I couldn't stand idly by,” he said. “This is our city. I love it with all my being.”
Lowry plans to declare a state of emergency Because of the fentanyl crisisHe revamped San Francisco's police force and had his staff at City Hall return to in-person work full-time, according to the Wall Street Journal.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been named head of Lurie's transition team, and Lurie has appointed Ned Segal, Twitter's former CFO, to a newly created position, head of housing and economic development.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a news conference at the future site of the Navigation Center for Transitional Era Youth on January 15, 2020, in San Francisco, California. (Getty)
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After Lowry's 10-point win over Breed, he told CNN he wanted to come back To common sense policies.
“I'm a lifelong Democrat, but we don't consider ourselves progressive, moderate or conservative here in San Francisco,” Lowry said. “We just want to get back to common sense. We have to deliver the basics, and that's my plan. That's the mandate I was elected to deliver.”
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“We have to make sure we have a fully equipped police department. We have to get the behavioral health and 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 think this is a shift to the right. This is common sense. It's getting close.”
