'We don't have time for the foolery,' Breed said to 750 supporters packed inside the Fillmore, hoping to give the mayor four more years.
London Breed, taking the mic at her campaign kickoff in the Fillmore on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros.
Hundreds packed the dimly-lit hall, wearing yellow “London Breed for Mayor” hats and pins, and carrying yellow lawn signs. Roughly a third of the crowd was Black, another third Chinese elders organized by Breed’s well-oiled Asian outreach coordinators, and another third a mixture of volunteers, politicos, and others seeking to give the city’s first Black female mayor four more years.
London Breed’s campaign kickoff featured dozens of Chinese elders, whom she greeted in Cantonese at the beginning of her speech on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros. “I didn’t even like her at first,” said Chanel Blackwell, a 26-year resident of the city. But Breed’s shepherding of San Francisco through Covid — Blackwell’s son was in 9th grade during the outset of the pandemic — changed her mind. “I saw that she really cares about the students in San Francisco.”
“When you live over 20 years of your life in conditions you have no control over, in poverty, those experiences you never forget,” she added, as the boisterous crowd clapped and hooted. “And I want to be very clear: Every decision I’ve made as mayor, are the reasons why I have made those decisions.”
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