{"id":36736,"date":"2024-10-06T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=36736"},"modified":"2024-10-06T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T19:45:59","slug":"see-how-they-run-lurie-the-democrat-gets-support-from-s-f-republican-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/06\/see-how-they-run-lurie-the-democrat-gets-support-from-s-f-republican-group\/","title":{"rendered":"See how they run: Lurie, the Democrat, gets support from S.F. Republican group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"A by\u00a0XUEER LU<\/a><\/strong> OCTOBER 4, 2024 (MissionLocal.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniel Lurie taking questions from press after filing his candidacy. Photo by Xueer Lu. September 26, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor\u2019s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Daniel Lurie. Read earlier dispatches <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With ballots being mailed out to San Francisco voters on Oct. 7, the 7.6 percent of them who registered as Republicans <\/a>might be surprised to see whom their fellow Republicans are telling them to vote for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rising Republican political group called San Francisco Briones Society<\/a> has put moderate-leaning Democratic candidate Daniel Lurie as their first choice<\/a> for the November election, ranking Mark Farrell as second and the incumbent Mayor London Breed as third. All three are registered Democrats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This came at the expense of Farrell, whose conservative campaign rhetoric has won over law-and-order voters and is backed by donors such as Thomas Coates \u2014 a rent-control foe who gave<\/a> $500,000 to a political action committee supporting Farrell and another $250,000 to Farrell\u2019s ballot measure committee supporting Proposition D to reform city commissions and give more power to the mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019d say it was pretty evenly split between people who wanted Mark Farrell first and Daniel Lurie first,\u201d Jay Donde, co-founder of the San Francisco Briones Society said about the decision made by a nine-person committee. \u201cThe one thing that Daniel has over all of the other candidates is that he can say that he was not in office and did not take part in the politics that led us to the current mess the city is in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donde acknowledged that Farrell has experience in government but called it a \u201cdouble-edged sword.\u201d \u201cSometimes it\u2019s better to have new blood, new perspectives, fresh eyes in City Hall,\u201d he added, while emphasizing the two are both \u201cgood candidates\u201d that would be \u201ca significant improvement over the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m a proud lifelong Democrat so it\u2019s not an endorsement I\u2019m seeking,\u201d Lurie said in a statement. \u201cBut my campaign has always been about bringing people into the fold, not pushing them away.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI welcome the support of every San Franciscan who is committed to restoring safety, ending homelessness and shutting down open air drug markets,\u201d Lurie said. \u201cThat\u2019s not partisan. It\u2019s common sense.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time Lurie has received support from the Republican party or a Republican political group. In fact, Lurie and Farrell are the two top picks for the San Francisco GOP<\/a> \u2014 with Lurie\u2019s name placed ahead of Farrell\u2019s on a chart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ellen Lee Zhou, the only Republican candidate in the mayoral race, who wears a red MAGA-like hat while campaigning, has failed to make the cut for either the city\u2019s official Republican Party or the upstart Briones Society. Across all the Republican groups in the city, Zhou is only able to make it as a second choice endorsed by the San Francisco Young Republicans<\/a>, which placed Farrell as first and Aaron Peskin as third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MORE FIELD NOTES FROM THE MAYOR\u2019S RACE<\/mark><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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See how they run: Daniel Lurie greets voters in the Castro \u2014 and in heat wave<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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See how they run: Mayor Breed skips likely last mayoral forum, gets blasted in absentia<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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See how they run: Breed, Lurie trade barbs in Latinx-focused Mission mayoral forum<\/a><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

XUEER LU<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

xueer@missionlocal.com<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xueer is a California Local News Fellow,<\/a> working on data and covering housing. Xueer is a bilingual multimedia journalist fluent in Chinese and English and is passionate about data, graphics, and innovative ways of storytelling. Xueer graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with a Master’s Degree in May 2023. She also loves cooking, photography, and scuba diving.More by Xueer Lu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0XUEER LU OCTOBER 4, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) Sign up below to get Mission Local\u2019s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won\u2019t find elsewhere.Sign up Mission Local is publishing campaign dispatches for each of the major contenders in the mayor\u2019s race, alternating among candidates weekly until November. This week: Daniel Lurie…. Continue reading → <\/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\/36736"}],"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=36736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36737,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36736\/revisions\/36737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}