Jackie Fielder + Daniel Lurie = good governance for SF?
Editor-at-large
San Francisco Standard
Published Nov. 27, 2024 • 6:00am
From what I knew about Jackie Fielder before her resounding election this month as supervisor for the Mission, I expected a bomb-thrower.
What I found instead last week over coffee (for me) and matcha latte (for her) was a 30-year-old pol more eager to talk about street-level constituent service than progressive tropes like defunding the cops or DEI training in schools.
Fielder has a reputation as a brainy ideologue who’s a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Many in San Francisco’s political scene expect her to pick up the firebrand mantle of Aaron Peskin, who was her defeated first choice for mayor, and fellow DSA supervisor Dean Preston, who was also vanquished at the ballot box by San Francisco’s monied moderates.
But that’s not the Fielder I met. The great hope for San Francisco’s progressives — and with Peskin and Preston out of the picture, she is exactly that — Fielder spent more time discussing street maintenance, how to encourage cops to walk the beat, and cooperation with Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie than mouthing left-wing talking points.
Corny as this may sound, the encounter left me hopeful that the city’s new crop of elected officials really do mean to embark on a journey of collegiality and cooperation, rather than partisan bickering.
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