{"id":32899,"date":"2024-04-12T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32899"},"modified":"2024-04-12T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T20:20:48","slug":"mayoral-candidate-aaron-peskin-releases-first-campaign-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/mayoral-candidate-aaron-peskin-releases-first-campaign-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Releases First Campaign Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34-1024x617.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34-1024x617.png 1024w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34-250x150.png 250w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-34.png 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo from SFist.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 APRIL 2024\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/politics\/\">SF POLITICS<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/author\/jay-barmann\/\">JAY BARMANN<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of &#8220;recovery&#8221; \u2014 both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco&#8217;s return to prosperity and his own struggles with alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the theme from the outset of Peskin&#8217;s first campaign video advertisement, posted to X on Wednesday afternoon. It&#8217;s two minutes long \u2014 more than will air as a TV spot, giving him some room to lay out how he differs from the other, more moderate candidates, and to defend against attacks that he has stymied housing development in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;San Franciscans are still proud of their neighborhoods, but they&#8217;re feeling down about San Francisco. And that needs to change,&#8221; Peskin says in the video. &#8220;I&#8217;m Aaron Peskin, and I know something about recovery, and what it takes to rebuild from a very low point.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our city is in need of recovery, something I know a little about. I&#39;m running for Mayor because I love San Francisco, and I&#39;m committed to helping our city recover with hard work and decades of experience. Watch my video to learn more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3GmlXeLWLa\">pic.twitter.com\/3GmlXeLWLa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaron Peskin (@AaronPeskin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronPeskin\/status\/1778128437238178253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peskin goes on to show us a string of newspaper headlines that tout his good works, including the approval of &#8220;thousands of new homes in the Hunters Point Shipyard, China Basin, and SoMa.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need a neighborhood mayor with the experience to rebuild our city from the ground up,&#8221; Peskin says. &#8220;We need a leader who will fix our city for everyone, not one who will ruin it for the many to please a wealthy few.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peskin is pledging to recruit more police and 911 dispatchers, to add 2,000 homeless shelter and treatment beds to &#8220;drastically reduce homelessness,&#8221; and he says he will &#8220;make sure San Franciscans are in charge of development decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By contrast, former supervisor Mark Farrell, who is also running for mayor, sounds a bit more stern and unrealistically draconian when it comes to homelessness, saying he&#8217;ll clear all large homeless encampments in his first 100 days, establish a &#8220;24\/7 intake center&#8221; for a population that is not always looking to be taken in, and &#8220;mandate treatment-focused detention and a connection to services for individuals who are revived with Narcan on city streets.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t mention a specific expansion of shelter beds, but he does say he will take a &#8220;shelter-first approach because San Francisco can\u2019t just build itself out of the homelessness crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Lurie has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/daniellurie.com\/priorities\/shelter\/\">pledged<\/a>&nbsp;to build 1,500 new shelter beds, and to establish 24-hour shelters \u2014 he&#8217;s basically talking about more Navigation Centers \u2014 where people are not kicked out during the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to Peskin, though. He finishes the video saying, &#8220;Extreme solutions might feel good in moments of frustration and fear, but to truly recover we need to come together and heal our city while living up to the ideals that made San Francisco so great.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don&#8217;t yet know who is throwing funding behind Peskin \u2014 his announcement was just made last weekend, and data on the SF Ethics Commission website is still a week old. But as of now, Mayor London Breed has the most candidate-controlled funds, with just over $658,000 at her disposal, and Daniel Lurie has the most PAC support, with Believe In SF: Lurie For Mayor group commanding almost $3.3 million at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Previously:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/03\/25\/mark-farrell-wants-to-bring-car-traffic-back-to-market-street-downtown-is-that-wise\/\">Mark Farrell Wants to Bring Car Traffic Back to Market Street Downtown \u2014 Is That Wise?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from SFist.com 10 APRIL 2024\/SF POLITICS\/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) As we knew from his first announcements last week about his campaign for mayor, Supervisor Aaron Peskin is leaning into the concept of &#8220;recovery&#8221; \u2014 both as it pertains to the city of San Francisco&#8217;s return to prosperity and his own&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/mayoral-candidate-aaron-peskin-releases-first-campaign-video\/\"> 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899"}],"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=32899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32901,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32899\/revisions\/32901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}