San Francisco Mayor London Breed loses reelection to Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie

SAN FRANCISCO– San Francisco Mayor London Breed lost her re-election race to Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie.

The Associated Press called the race Tuesday.

In to give in the race to Lurie, Breed, 50, promised a smooth transition for the next mayor.

“Being mayor of San Francisco has been the greatest honor of my life. I am beyond grateful to our residents for the opportunity to serve the city that raised me,” she said in a statement last week.

Race victory six years ago when the city’s first Black female mayor – who grew up poor and in public housing – showed that no dream was impossible in the progressive, compassionate and just city.

She won the election as mayor in June 2018 to serve out the remainder of Ed Lee’s term, who died suddenly while in office.

But the honeymoon was short-lived due to the COVID-19 pandemic closed shops and tech workers retreated to home offices. The number of tent encampments increased, as did public drug use, and her opponents said she was doing too little, too late.

Streets became cleaner and homeless tents harder to find this year, but the daytime recordings in September by 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall in a popular central shopping area reignited the public safety debate.

She was re-elected in 2019 to a full term that lasted five years instead of the usual four, after voters adjusted the electoral calendar to the presidential elections.