San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie vowed to clean up the city’s streets.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a woman urged Lurie to “clean up the streets and the homeless, please,” to which the mayor-elect said, “We’re going to.”
“We are the greatest city in the world when we are at our best,” Lurie said. “If I had to place my bet on a city that is going to come back stronger and better than ever, it is our city.”
The WSJ said the incoming mayor plans to take “swift action” on the city’s issues, including “declaring a fentanyl state of emergency; reinvigorating the depleted police force; and ordering his direct reports at City Hall back to the office full-time to set an example—and attack an office-vacancy rate topping 35%.”
Lurie explained he wanted to run for mayor after struggling to describe the city’s decline to his children. “I just couldn’t stand by,” he said. This is our city. I love it with all my being.”
In November, Lurie told CNN that although he is a “lifelong Democrat,” city residents do not view themselves as “progressives or moderates or conservatives.”
“We just want to get back to common sense. We have to deliver the basics and that’s my plan. That’s the mandate that I was elected to fulfill,” he said. “We have to make sure that we have a fully staffed police department. We have to get our behavioral health and drug crisis under control in our city.”
“We need to make sure our small businesses can thrive. Our big businesses need to be coming back to San Francisco. We need to be open for business again,” he noted. “I don’t believe that that’s a rightward swing. That’s a common sense approach.”
