“No matter what the results said, I’m still a winner,” Breed said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times this week. “The fact that I have come out of the most problematic circumstances of San Francisco to be mayor, and I’m here, and I have been able to serve, it is an absolute privilege.”
It’s a peculiar take from the mayor who spent the past six years pitching progressive ideas, only to do a 180-degree turn in the final months of the election and embrace a tough-on-crime and homelessness stance.
For voters, it was too little, too late.
Billionaire heir Daniel Lurie defeated Breed and a crowded field of rivals last month to win the San Francisco mayoral race, earning his first term leading