Daniel Lurie's campaign is on a roll—fresh off a Chronicle endorsement and good polling. And the momentum has never felt better.
For the last two weeks before the election, Mission Local’s campaign dispatches are switching daily between the major candidates. Read earlier dispatches incumbent London Breed a “safe choice” last week but gave Lurie its endorsement as “the only candidate that fits.” dropped Monday showing that Lurie was also the candidate to beat. The poll, based on 802 voter interactions conducted Oct. 15 to 16, showed Lurie with 23 percent of the first choice votes, with Breed at 24 percent.
Moisés García, Lurie’s LGBTQ outreach director and one of the only two campaign staffers — a smaller posse than usual — at the meet-and-greet, agreed. Weekends are even more packed, García continued. Last Saturday, Lurie hit nine events in 11 hours — meet-and-greets in Dogpatch, the Potrero Hill Festival, the India Basin Waterfront Park opening in the Bayview-Hunters Point, a Filipino block party in South of Market, just to name a few.
He said he has a game plan for what his administration will look like, but declined to reveal any details at this point in the race. “I just think it’s unwise to talk about that when the voters are still making decisions,” he said.Lurie talks a lot about accountability at City Hall. A scene he always paints to voters is that he will sit down with all the major department heads and interview them for the job they have.
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