{"id":28699,"date":"2023-09-23T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28699"},"modified":"2023-09-23T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:40:55","slug":"daniel-lurie-files-to-challenge-mayor-breed-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/daniel-lurie-files-to-challenge-mayor-breed-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Lurie files to challenge Mayor Breed in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Adam%20Shanks\">By Adam Shanks | Examiner staff writer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sep 22, 2023\u00a0Updated\u00a01 hr ago (SFExaminer.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/1\/f6\/1f6f2b1a-596f-11ee-9481-2f2212dd093f\/650dd18dd4ce3.image.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"Daniel Lurie\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Daniel Lurie, pictured above on Jan. 30, 2016 ahead of Super Bowl 50 festivities kicking off in San Francisco, appears to be the latest major challenger to Mayor London Breed.AP Photo\/David J. Phillip<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie appears to be the latest major challenger to Mayor London Breed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As has long been expected,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2023\/09\/21\/nonprofit-founder-daniel-lurie-files-papers-to-run-for-mayor-of-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lurie filed paperwork on Thursday<\/a>&nbsp;with The City\u2019s Ethics Commission to enable a run against Breed in her 2024 reelection campaign, the San Francisco Standard first reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lurie joins a race increasingly crowded with political moderates, but thus far absent of formidable and prominent progressives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though he has not yet publicly declared his intentions to run, Lurie has been conspicuously testing the mayoral waters in recent months and was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2023\/09\/07\/daniel-lurie-mayor-san-francisco-london-breed-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rumored to be imminently jumping into the contest.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lurie, a San Francisco native, is a founder of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tippingpoint.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tipping Point Community<\/a>, a nonprofit that has aimed to address poverty in the Bay Area since 2005. He served as its CEO until 2019, when he stepped down and transitioned to board chair \u2014 a position he vacated in August of this year,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tippingpoint.org\/thought-leadership\/tipping-point-founding-story-2\/#:~:text=Daniel%20Lurie%20founded%20Tipping%20Point,current%20CEO%20of%20Tipping%20Point.\" target=\"_blank\">according to the nonprofit\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lurie\u2019s mother, Mimi Haas, married Peter Haas, the great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss. His father, Rabbi Brian Lurie, formerly served as the executive director of the Jewish Community Federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, Lurie joined Manny\u2019s owner Manny Yekutiel to launch the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/the-city\/civic-joy-fund-to-launch-5-programs-for-sf-economic-recovery\/article_007f9eac-ef65-11ed-9d87-bf40e31e6f4c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2 million Civic Joy Fund<\/a>, a project intended to reinvigorate neighborhoods with public art installations, concerts and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s the most prominent figure to join the race who does not have deep experience in city government, which, given voters&#8217;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/bay-area-news\/examiner-poll-san-francisco-voters-are-unhappy-and-elected-leaders-should-take-note\/article_685d8c14-e138-11ec-a88b-e3aa72789f08.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">well-documented dismay with the state of The City<\/a>, he could try to promote as an asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breed is eyeing a second full term after more than five years on the Board of Supervisors. She is sure to highlight her recent efforts to more aggressively curtail open-air drug markets in the Tenderloin and Mid-Market neighborhoods, as well as her expansion of community ambassador programs and funding for police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s fielding a challenge from current Supervisor Ahsha Safai, who has represented District 11 in the southeast quadrant of The City for two terms. Safai has been sharply critical of Breed\u2019s leadership, including the opening \u2014 and then abrupt closure \u2014 of the Tenderloin Center, which served as a de facto safe consumption site for drug users in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie appears to be the latest major challenger to Mayor London Breed. As has long been expected,&nbsp;Lurie filed paperwork on Thursday&nbsp;with The City\u2019s Ethics Commission to enable a run against Breed in her 2024 reelection campaign, the San Francisco Standard first reported. Lurie&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/23\/daniel-lurie-files-to-challenge-mayor-breed-in-2024\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1117,1119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28703,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions\/28703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}