For the first time in a long time, San Francisco Mayor London Breed might have momentum.
Fresh off her strongest poll numbers in recent memory, Breed formally kicked off her reelection campaign in front of throngs of supporters at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday.
She all but dared her opponents to run negative campaigns, promising to run an uplifting race and encouraging her supporters to join her on the “roller coaster.” It’s a position that might have been harder to take had she faced reelection a year ago, but now Breed happily pointed to statistics showing crime on the decline and unsheltered homelessness dropping.
The same survey found that, in relation to previous polls, fewer San Franciscans view The City as heading in the wrong direction, which could be an important improvement for a mayor seeking to win reelection. Speakers at the event included representatives from labor, a drag queen, a Mission district community leader, a safe streets advocate, and beloved San Franciscan and actor Danny Glover.
These are the next steps for Great Highway's coastal-trail conversion Opponents of the proposal say that its current iteration falls short of the climate resilience and public-access goals that city officials set more than 10 years ago
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