Reading London Breed's mind
Editor-at-large and reader of minds**
Published Aug. 26, 2024 • 6:00am
The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/08/26/mind-reading-london-breed/
When I win reelection this November — and it is a when, not an if — I’ll have a few people to thank for my incredible good fortune.
The first is someone nobody would ever guess: Supervisor Dean Preston. Yeah, the Democratic Socialist from my old stomping grounds in District 5. It was Preston who, in 2022, helped put a charter amendment on the ballot that would push out the mayor’s race to a presidential election year, a move I opposed at the time. Now I see the genius of this “reform.” Had the mayoral election been held last year, I would have been toast. But not now!
Now I’m beginning to think I’ve got this.
I know the polls show me running neck and neck with Mark Farrell, my predecessor who held the job on an interim basis for six months. (He likes to omit the “interim” bit.) But that’s not the whole story. There are multiple reasons I think I’m going to pull this out — a far cry from what I thought even at the beginning of the year.
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