{"id":2365871,"date":"2024-11-07T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-mayoral-race-daniel-lurie-topples-mayor-london-breed-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T03:50:32","slug":"san-francisco-mayoral-race-daniel-lurie-topples-mayor-london-breed-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-mayoral-race-daniel-lurie-topples-mayor-london-breed-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco mayoral race: Daniel Lurie topples Mayor London Breed &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-mayoral-race-daniel-lurie-topples-mayor-london-breed-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2365871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Billionaire Daniel Lurie has won \u200bthe San Francisco mayoral race, \u2063defeating \u200dincumbent Mayor London\u200d Breed among a crowded field of\u200b candidates. Lurie, a political novice and founder of the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point, emphasized his commitment to public safety as \u200bhis\u200d primary focus. He criticized\u200b Breed and her administration\u2063 for failing\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-says-maga-extremists-may-need-formal-deprogramming\/\" title=\"Hillary Clinton suggests that individuals who identify as &quot;MAGA extremists&quot; might require &quot;official deprogramming.&quot;\">address critical \u200dissues<\/a> like property crime, homelessness, and the city&#8217;s post-pandemic recovery. \u200bUtilizing San Francisco&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ranked-choice-voting-advocates-are-forced-to-lie-about-fairness-to-get-voters-on-board\/\" title=\"Ranked-choice voting advocates must deceive voters about the concept of &quot;fairness&quot; to gain their support.\">ranked-choice voting\u200c system<\/a>, which complicates the election process by \u200drequiring\u200b multiple rounds of vote tallying, Lurie emerged as a strong candidate as\u2064 he attacked the perceived \u2063corruption and mismanagement \u2064of city \u200bhall. Despite Breed&#8217;s attempts to appeal to shifting political sentiments and her claims of improved safety, voters\u200d seemed to support Lurie&#8217;s \u2063message of accountability and change. This election showcases the challenges facing urban leaders \u200din <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-oliver-attempts-to-bribe-clarence-thomas-to-leave-supreme-court-sparking-calls-for-arrest\/\" title=\"John Oliver&#039;s bribery attempt on Clarence Thomas ignites calls for his arrest\">addressing pressing societal issues<\/a> and the demand for a new approach by the \u2064electorate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">San Francisco mayoral race: Billionaire Daniel Lurie topples San Francisco Mayor London Breed<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1765901\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire heir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3208713\/san-francisco-mayor-candidate-daniel-lurie-bought-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Daniel Lurie\">Daniel Lurie<\/a> defeated Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/london-breed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Daniel Lurie\">London Breed<\/a> and a crowded field of rivals to win the San Francisco mayoral race, earning his first term leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"California's\">California&rsquo;s<\/a> fourth-largest city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Lurie, a Democrat and political novice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3208713\/san-francisco-mayor-candidate-daniel-lurie-bought-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> the&nbsp;<em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&nbsp;that Breed and his opponents &ldquo;underestimated not only us, but they underestimated the people of San Francisco and their desire for change and accountability.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">San Francisco mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie, Oct. 28, 2024. (Barnini Chakraborty\/Washington Examiner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lurie, founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">anti-poverty nonprofit organization&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/tippingpoint.org\/thought-leadership\/tipping-point-founding-story-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tipping Point\">Tipping Point<\/a>, said his No. 1 priority would be public safety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco uses a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/ranked-choice-voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranked choice voting system<\/a>, which delayed the results. Under the system, voters rank candidates from their first choice to their least preferred. In multiple rounds of tallying, the candidate who receives the fewest votes is eliminated, and their supporters&rsquo; votes are carried over to the voters&rsquo; next preferred pick until there is a winner.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though San Francisco holds nonpartisan elections, all five of the leading candidates were Democrats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Breed, a political centrist by California standards, leaned into the city&rsquo;s shifting political winds, hoping to gain some traction among voters, but it proved to be too little,&nbsp;too late.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her political opponents, which also included a former San Francisco&nbsp;mayor and two city supervisors, blamed her for the city&rsquo;s failure to bounce back as quickly as others after the pandemic. They also hammered&nbsp;her on the growing drug epidemic, property crime, and a homelessness crisis that has led to an economic downturn and businesses fleeing the area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During her closing arguments to voters over the weekend, Breed claimed San Franciscans were feeling safer &ldquo;than they ever have before&rdquo; while admitting there was more work to be done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks leading up to the election,&nbsp;Lurie, former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safai inched up in the polls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lurie emerged as the strongest threat to Breed and&nbsp;slammed&nbsp;her for contributing to a corrupt system that was grossly mismanaged and did little to benefit residents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The city hall insiders have failed to deliver for the people of San Francisco, and we are going to deliver on that promise of true public service, not for personal profit but to serve the people again,&rdquo; he told the&nbsp;<em>Washington&nbsp;Examiner<\/em>. &ldquo;We are going to get our behavioral health crisis on our streets under control. We are going to get people off the streets and into help. More mental health, drug treatment beds. We are sending a message to the country: You do not come to San Francisco to deal drugs, to do drugs, or to sleep on our streets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his message, Lurie was accused by his opponents of trying to buy the race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the $8 million Lurie contributed to his own campaign, his mother, Mimi Haas, supported his candidacy through a million-dollar independent committee contribution. His brother, Ari Lurie, gave $150,000 to the same committee. Daniel Lurie&rsquo;s rich tech friends also opened their wallets for him and forked over hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>On a per-capita basis, he has only been outspent by two candidates in modern mayoral history: Rick Caruso, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Los Angeles, and Michael Bloomberg, who served three terms as mayor of New York City. Both are self-made billionaires who pitched voters on their business chops and ability to run the massive organizations they built.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\" \"> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lurie&rsquo;s only significant work experience has been in philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>Lurie&rsquo;s win makes him the first person since 1911 to be elected mayor of the city without prior government credentials.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1765901\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1765901\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Daniel Lurie defeats Mayor London Breed in San Francisco&#8217;s mayoral race, marking his first term as the city&#8217;s leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2365872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/daniellurie2-1024x594.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44589,36674,44588,32422],"class_list":["post-2365871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-daniel-lurie","tag-london-breed","tag-mayoral-race","tag-san-francisco"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/daniellurie2-1024x594.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365875,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365871\/revisions\/2365875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}