Yes, London Breed Is a Little Bitter That Lurie Is Getting Credit For Things She Started

"I know that people think this happened overnight, but it definitely did not. This is my stuff, and I'm very proud of it."

"He is doing a good job of publicizing it, I think, better than I did, in terms of bragging about all this."

"All of what's happening in this city has everything to do with my administration. It's so easy to attach a white face to the work of a Black person."

A year after stepping off the public stage and retreating to lick her wounds, former San Francisco Mayor London Breed has been privately asserting responsibility for the city's recent upswing. She contends that many improvements began during her administration and expresses pride in that work. Breed acknowledges that her successor, Daniel Lurie, benefited from timing, luck, and effective self-promotion, especially on social media, and that his persona helped public perception. She accepts responsibility for encampment cleanups and early crackdowns on open drug use while criticizing the tendency to credit a white successor for a Black leader's accomplishments. She also faced a pandemic hangover, retail closures, and negative headlines about homeless encampments that eroded support, and there is lingering bad blood with the local Chronicle over access.

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