London Breed lost her reelection bid after six years as San Francisco mayor. After tackling a series of crises, including entrenched homelessness, the explosive rise in fentanyl use and the COVID-19 pandemic, Breed said she leaves office with her head held high.
Mayor London Breed may have lost reelection, but after more than six years at the helm of one of America's most iconic cities, she says she will leave office next month as a champion. 'No matter what the results said, I'm still a winner,' Breed said in an interview 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 just was definitely very challenging to run the city, which is the priority, and then try to run a campaign against the kind of financial resources that were coming at me from a lot of different places,' she said. The rise in tech sector influence has become a defining theme the last two years in an array of San Francisco elections. Breed is still weighing whether that shift will ultimately improve local politics.
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