San Francisco mayor steered backup power to daughters Nutcracker show during massive blackout

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie pushed to get power back at the city’s Opera House — where his daughter was performing the lead role in the Nutcracker ballet as her dad’s constituents endured days of darkness just before Christmas.Lurie, the wealthy heir to the Levi Strauss jean fortune and fixture in SF’s high society set, “requested” PG&E send emergency generators to the San Francisco Opera House as the blackout blanketed huge swaths of the city, CEO Sumeet Singh said at a hearing at the Board of Supervisors — a claim a company representative later walked back, according to reports. Records obtained by The Post show the mayor was “directly” involved in the call to redirect scarce backup power to the Nutcracker ballet — a holiday tradition for the city’s posh upper crust. “I would like to personally recognize both the Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor himself-who has been very engaged with us directly- we have succeeded in getting PGE to relocate two massive generators from another site to the Opera House.See photo,” bragged Kate Sofis, director of the War Memorial Opera House, in a Dec.

21 email.  The same day, PG&E rep Jake Zigelman assured the mayor in a text that he was “working feverishly” to restore power to the ballet after Lurie demanded an update on restoring power in Civic Center, which is home to the opulent War Memorial and Davies Symphony Hall — as an estimated 20,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark. The despised utility shared a tone-deaf X post that day boasting that the 2 p.m.Nutcracker performance — where Lurie’s daughter performed as Clara — was “ON using its backup generator” and it was working to “secure temporary generation” for the 7 p.m.

show. The company was torched for prioritizing the ballet while much of the low-income Tenderloin and residential Richmond neighborhoods languished without power for up to 48 hours. “The show must go on, but f–k the...