#daniel-lurie

#daniel-lurie

The Chronicle reports today that Lurie has spent $870,000 out of his own pocket since taking office in early 2025, with most of that sum going to outside speechwriters, PR consultants, and top advisers to the centrist political agitator group GrowSF. More specifically, the Chronicle found that Lurie's own personal dollars were spent getting advice from local PR firm Szabo and Associates ($130,000), Democratic mega-consultant Lis Smith ($50,000), speechwriter Jennifer Pitts ($60,000), and political consultant Tyler Law ($60,000), among others.

The general public has no idea how much coffee Mayor London Breed drank. For all we know, her predecessor Mayor Ed Lee started each morning by wading into a kiddie pool full of macchiato. That's because neither of these mayors had their staff post even a fraction of what Lurie's team has to social media. Lurie, on the other hand, is seemingly perusing all the cafes in the Yellow Pages, A to Z, and taking his Instagram followers with him.

Trump reiterated his decision to call off a planned incursion of federal agents and/or troops in San Francisco this weekend after phone calls with Lurie, as well as "friends" Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. "It's very different from the vicious way Trump has described mayors of other big, blue cities," the Times notes, saying that other cabinet members spoke favorably about Lurie and Trump added, "I told the mayor, 'I love what you're doing.'"

Lurie has redefined a broader scope of beds to fall under the aegis of "shelter bed," and decided to count 361 beds that were "in the pipeline" during the administration of Mayor London Breed toward that 1,500.