SF Politics Daniel Lurie Campaign Paying Google to Run Fake, Anti-Mark Farrell Headlines on Real News Articles The latest skullduggery in the SF mayor’s race has Google search results for Mark Farrell that make it look like prominent local publications ran headlines declaring “Don’t Trust Mark Farrell.” But the headlines are fake, and the Lurie campaign appears to be paying Google to manipulate them.
SF Politics Breed Bounces Back Big-Time With Sizable Lead In New Mayoral Race Poll Is it the Kamala effect? Whatever it may be, Mayor London Breed is up by eight points in the five-way race for mayor, according to the latest poll from the Chronicle, but ranked-choice voting could scramble these results entirely.
SF Politics Fundraising Totals Show Lurie Way Ahead In Mayoral Race Money, Lurie and Farrell Argue About It on Twitter Wealthy SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is millions of dollars ahead of his rivals in the fundraising race, according to just-released public information, but this revelation wrought a puerile pissing match between Lurie and Mark Farrell on Twitter Thursday.
SF Politics SF’s Moderate Candidates Duke It Out at Debate Peskin Skipped Because He Figured It Was Rigged Monday night saw another SF mayoral debate, this one largely dominated by the topics of crime and homelessness, but Aaron Peskin refused to show because he felt the organizers already had the fix in for Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie.
SF Politics SF’s Wealthiest Political Group Endorses Farrell and Lurie, Relegates Breed to Third Choice The moderate group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, whose top money man is a Republican mega-donor, has dual-endorsed Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie for SF mayor, and only says to include London Breed as your third choice so Peskin doesn’t win.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Has Now Spent More Than $1 Million In SF Mayoral Race Levi Strauss family heir money and venture capitalists’ bucks are flying into the campaign accounts for SF mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie, but he’s burning through it too, and has spent $1.2 million with Election Day still five months out.
SF Politics Lights Went Out as Candidates Were Speaking at Monday Night’s Very Glitchy SF Mayoral Debate It was literally a “lights out” performance, and not in a good way, on Monday night when the five major candidates running for San Francisco mayor debated at UC Law, and repeated technical glitches marred the night’s proceedings.
SF Politics In First SF Mayoral Debate, Crowd’s Jeers are More Memorable Than Candidates’ Performances All five major candidates for San Francisco mayor faced off Wednesday night in their first proper debate of this year’s mayoral race. All stuck tightly to their pretty wonky scripts, but the crowd let loose on the candidates (and the moderators) with booing and heckling.
SF Politics We’ve Finally Got a Real SF Mayoral Debate, Happening on June 17 After two scheduled debates crashed and burned, we’ve finally got a true mayoral debate with all five major candidates on the same stage, scheduled for June 17 at UC Law San Francisco.
SF Politics London Breed, Aaron Peskin Beg Off From Monday Mayoral Candidate Debate By TogetherSF, Will Host Their Own Thing A scheduled May 20 debate among mayoral candidates by two tech-funded advocacy groups has been making Mayor London Breed uneasy, and as of Tuesday, she is officially pulling out.
SF Politics Breed Threatens to Back Out of First Mayoral Debate, Questions Whether It Might Be Rigged by Organizer The first SF Mayoral debate is in less than two weeks, but London Breed may be a no-show, as there are ties surfacing between the debate’s tech PAC organizer, and both the Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie campaigns.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie PAC Already Spending Gigantic Sums To Clog Your Mailbox With November Election Mailers There’s only one candidate who’s already sending out mailers for SF’s November mayoral elections while it’s still April, and that’s Levi Strauss heir Danial Lurie, whose campaign PAC is bolstered by a million-dollar donation from his mom.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie Raising Eye-Popping Sums of Money From VCs and His Family Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is walloping the competition in the mayoral money race, with about four times as much cash raised as Mayor Breed, most of it coming from tech founders, venture capitalists, and his mom.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Daniel Lurie Gets Endorsement From Former Mayor Frank Jordan Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie got an endorsement from former mayor Frank Jordan Wednesday; a pedestrian was struck and killed on 101 in San Jose; and a documentary is being made about the disappearance of Alexis Gabe.
SF Politics New Poll Shows Mark Farrell Beating London Breed in First-Choice Vote, and Breed Trailing In Ranked-Choice The first poll conducted since Mark Farrell jumped into the SF mayor’s race shows him edging London Breed slightly in first-choice votes, while Daniel Lurie does the best in second-choice votes, and there are generally low approval ratings for Breed.
SF Politics Poll Shows Daniel Lurie Beating London Breed by 18 Points Head-to-Head, But Breed Still Leads If You Count All Candidates The good news for mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie is that a new poll shows him 18 points ahead of London Breed in a head-to-head matchup. The bad news for him is that Breed’s still ahead by five points if you count all candidates, though ranked choice favors Lurie.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Makes Candidacy Official For SF Mayor, Says There's 'Hunger For Change' Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is positioning himself as an "outsider" candidate for San Francisco mayor as he makes his 2024 candidacy official today. And he's promising, among other things, to compel more mentally ill people into treatment even if it's against their will.
SF Politics It Sure Looks Like Levi Strauss Heir Daniel Lurie Is Running for Mayor Against London Breed Levi Strauss heir and former anti-poverty group Tipping Point Community CEO Daniel Lurie just submitted preliminary filings to run for SF mayor in 2024, and he’s expected to officially announce on Tuesday.
SF News CEO Trying To Raise $100 Million For Homeless Reportedly Considering Run For Mayor Candidates running for mayor of San Francisco in 2019 will not be running against Ed Lee, as Lee is termed out after this, his second full term. That means a large litter of