The Honeymoon is Over: Lurie Scandals Are Mounting and Finally Getting Attention
A year in, and no matter how much he spends on PR, the San Francisco Mayor’s scandals and unforced errors are becoming too big for the media to ignore.
A year in, and no matter how much he spends on PR, the San Francisco Mayor’s scandals and unforced errors are becoming too big for the media to ignore.
After slashing essential services for everyday San Franciscans, Mayor Daniel Lurie is celebrating select billionaire handouts. What’s resulted is disproportionate power for billionaires to decide what gets funded and to divert funds from public agencies to private contractors.
In the debates on housing development, industry-aligned politicians gloss over one key fact: new housing built in San Francisco will
San Francisco's Mayor continues to treat poverty and homelessness as personal failings that need punishment, rather than as symptoms of an unjust and broken system that needs fixing
New data shows that 621 people died from overdoses in 2025, a similar level as 2024. The Mayor’s strategy of ramped up criminal enforcement does not appear to be working to significantly lower fatal overdoses in San Francisco.
Daniel Lurie was recently videotaped celebrating Blackstone, one of the most notorious private equity landlords in the nation.