San Francisco Mayor London Breed returns from China, appears in public to campaign for her position

mayor London breed is back from a trip to China and making a visible push to fight for her job in the middle of a tough re-election fight she has major opposition several H high-profile Challengers campaigning on the Promises of change each are touting their own solutions to the city's problems from crime to the housing crisis the candidates have made it a strategy of getting out into the city's neighborhoods to hear from voters directly Wilson Walker went along with mayor breed as she walked San Bruno Avenue in the port TOA District oh my goodness you Leon you got my grandmother's out here in the cold in a blustery afternoon wind mayor London breed hit San Bruno Avenue going door Todo along a business Corridor with a large Chinese population in a sure sign that the campaign and hand-to-hand politics are well underway we got a whole grw come on come on accompanied by the woman she calls her Asian grandmother breed l a team of supporters up and down this street for some voter Outreach her other job was never far away um I was asking uh the mayor um if she's going to be fixing the potholes on Mission Street here in San Francisco um we do a lot of low riding there and our cars are getting messed up you said low rider I talk Roberto all right sounds good and my hope is that by being out here I can answer questions I can deal with people's uh issues and concerns I mean even a speed bump that still hasn't happened beyond the job of being mayor breed must also convince residents that things are getting better in San Francisco something you do hear in the city quite a bit however do you feel enough people feel that way and will ultimately in a couple months decide to give you credit well my hope is to get credit for it and like today out here in San Bruno uh I am talking to people about the various programs that we provide from the city people um are realizing that it is attributed to the work that I am doing as mayor so the posters went up along San Bruno in some cases right alongside those of an opponent a reminder that this is a complicated race for the mayor as voters have options it's hard to have a conversation about the race with anyone in the city and they don't mention rank Choice voting do you have any thoughts on that well my thoughts on are it's important for me to run my race and to talk about all the things that I have done and the fact is and just to talk about safety crime is down lower than it's been in 10 years not including the pandemic and even in 2024 it's continuing to Trend down so we are seeing the difference but we also have to make sure people feel the difference so when you hear people say it's getting better they're starting to feel it but we want them to to feel it more consistently and I think that's going to be a determining Factor when folks go to the polls you know whether or not they see the consistency and we have plenty of time to get there now the mayor had made one neighborhood walk about since her return from China and that was in chinat town probably gives you a pretty good idea of how the mayor's campaign team sees this race taking shape with just over 190 days to go until election day

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Published: Fri Apr 26 2024