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CNN Throws San Francisco Under the Bus In Nation's Rightward Shift, Casts Lurie as Law-and-Order Conservative

Democrats' post-mortems after this election were already exhausting last Wednesday, and they've only continued for the last nine days. And on networks like CNN, they have had to hammer home the reasons why Dems lost so terribly, in terms of losing control of the House and Senate.

London Breed Concedes Mayoral Election as Lurie Maintains Lead In Ballot Update; D1 Race Is Dead Even

Daniel Lurie continued to have a comfortable lead in the ranked-choice tally for San Francisco mayor, and while incumbent Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin made some small gains, Breed announced she has already conceded the race.

Daniel Lurie Poised to Be Next Mayor of San Francisco After Spending Record Sum In Election

Daniel Lurie, the billionaire heir to a Levi's jeans fortune who, with the help of his mother's wealth, launched a campaign to become mayor of San Francisco, is well ahead of incumbent London Breed in ranked-choice votes.

Mayor Breed Presses Forward With Embarcadero Plaza Revamp on Eve of Election

On the last day before Election Day, SF Mayor London Breed held a press conference in Embarcadero Plaza, announcing a public-private partnership that, if approved by the Supes, intends to entirely remake the plaza along with the adjacent Sue Bierman Park.

SF Zoo Claims It’s Nearing Its $20 Million Fundraising Goal to Bring Pandas to Town

The zoo may be “dilapidated” and London Breed might not even be mayor anymore once they get here, but the SF Zoo claims they are almost at their $20 million goal to bring two giant pandas to the facility next year.

New Chronicle Poll Has Daniel Lurie Edging Ahead of London Breed, Thanks to Second-Choice Votes

While Mayor London Breed has a tiny lead in first-choice votes in the latest Chronicle poll, Daniel Lurie pulls ahead in second-choice votes, and Aaron Peskin has surprisingly leapfrogged Mark Farrell for third place.

In a Political Stunner, Mayor Breed Calls For ‘Immediate Stop’ to SFUSD School Closures, Trashes Superintendent

Mayor London Breed cannot stop the San Francisco school closures, but she just lent her muscle and bully pulpit to the cause, suddenly declaring “It is time to immediately stop this school closure process.”

Mayor Breed Touts 60% Drop in Tents on Streets, Mandelmans’s District 8 Supposedly Has Just One Tent

Some very encouraging new statistics saying the number of tents on San Francisco streets is at a six-year low, including there being only one tent counted in District 8, but this does not seem to have meaningfully lowered SF’s homeless population.

Breed Proposes Yet Another Incentive to Convert Offices to Housing, as No One’s Been Jumping on Previous Incentives

Mayor Breed is pushing a new proposal to eliminate an estimated $70,000 and $90,000 per unit in costs to convert downtown office space to housing, as developers aren’t really biting on previous conversion incentives.

In Fifth (and Probably Final) Mayoral Debate, Sharp Barbs on Homelessness and Corruption

The Coalition On Homelessness was the unexpected boogeyman at Thursday night’s SF mayoral debate, but London Breed and Mark Farrell took plenty of heat for their own alleged corruption issues.

With Another Mayoral Debate Tonight, Breed Tries to Tag Farrell With Permit Scandal on Home Renovations

With a 7 pm Thursday night mayoral debate looming, Mayor Breed, who’s had something of a scandal-ridden week, is suddenly alleging that opponent Mark Farrell illegally pulled strings to expedite permits on a half-million-dollar renovation of his new house.

Update: Yet Another Improper Spending Scandal Rocks SF City Hall, Commission Director Hastily Resigns

The curious matter of a $10,000 Martha’s Vineyard house rental paid for with your tax dollars had led to the resignation of an SF City Hall commission director, and she appears to have also approved more than a million dollars in contracts to a man that lives with her.

Over a Quarter of SF Voters Still Undecided, But Breed and Farrell Still Lead Mayor's Race In New Poll

Former Supervisor and (briefly) Mayor Mark Farrell leads incumbent Mayor London Breed by the slimmest of margins in a new poll, with Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Asha Safai trailing. But over a quarter of voters polled said they were still undecided about the race.

Michael Bloomberg Kicks Down $1 Million to Breed PAC, Daniel Lurie Gives His Own Campaign Another $1 Million

Nearly $17 million has now been poured into the SF mayoral race, and Mayor London Breed just benefited from huge donations from former presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg and the Doordash CEO, while the Daniel Lurie campaign got another $1.3 million from Daniel Lurie.

New Interim SF Fire Chief Sandy Tong Sworn In By Mayor London Breed

Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced and swore in San Francisco's new interim fire chief, Sandy Tong, who takes over after the sudden retirement of Chief Jeanine Nicholson.

Mayor Breed Yanks Her Support From Commission Reform Measure, Alleging It’s Just a Slush Fund for Mark Farrell

SF Mayor London Breed just un-endorsed the Prop D ballot measure to trim the number of commissions at City Hall, amidst continuing allegations that rival Mark Farrell is just using the Prop D contributions to finance his own mayor’s race.

SF Police Union Endorses London Breed for Mayor, But Members Complain There Was No Actual Vote

Mayor London Breed won the coveted SF Police Officers Association endorsement Thursday, but members of the union are grumbling off the record that there was no real vote, and claim that there’s more support for Mark Farrell among the ranks.

London Breed and Billionaire Friend Throw SF Boosterism Bash In Chicago, Featuring The Killers

In an effort to flex some muscle on a national stage and counter the Republicans' tired narrative about San Francisco being a hellhole, billionaire Chris Larsen and Mayor London Breed threw an SF image-boosting party on Night Two of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Mayoral Candidates Scramble for Asian Vote, and Polls Say Mayor Breed Is Winning That Vote for Now

London Breed’s sudden new strong standing in mayoral-race polling seems powered by the Asian and Chinese-American vote, as her approval rating has doubled in that demographic over the last six months.

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 Steps Up Homeless Encampment Sweeps This Week — Will Homeless Just Ping-Pong to Other Blocks?

San Francisco's ever-shifting strategy to address the crisis of homelessness shifts again this week to an aggressive effort to clear encampments off of streets and push individuals to accept shelter and/or substance abuse treatment.

After Many Waymo Near-Collisions at School Crossings, Mayor Breed Vows to Hold Waymo's Feet to the Fire

An NBC Bay Area report in May detailed that 25% of SF school crossing guards said they or their school children had nearly been hit by self-driving Waymos, and now Mayor Breed is promising to hold the Google subsidiary more accountable.

Trump-Like Rhetoric at Mark Farrell Event Raises Eyebrows, Farrell Quickly Disavows Host’s Remarks

The host of a recent Mark Farrell fundraiser in the Marina went off on SF for “lawlessness and wokeism,” a description Farrell called “pretty compelling.” But now Farrell says he disagrees, and Mayor Breed is taking him to task.

SF Supervisor Dorsey, Mayor Breed, Propose 'Cash Not Drugs' Plan to Encourage Sobriety

A San Francisco Supervisor has some new proposed legislation that would pay an extra $100/week incentive to city welfare recipients if they are in substance-abuse treatment and succeed in staying clean.

Breed Vows Major Encampment Crackdown Coming In August, Says There May Be ‘Criminal Penalties’

Emboldened by the recent Supreme Court decision allowing bans on homeless encampments, Mayor London Breed said Thursday that a major effort to sweep encampments was in the works and would start in August.