Exclusive | Common sense is winning in San Francisco, says Mayor Daniel Lurie

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said Tuesday’s election results sent a message: focus on results, not politics.Just 16 months into the job, Lurie has presided over a surge in optimism in the once-ridiculed liberal city alongside a drop in petty crime, a decrease in large homeless encampments and glimmers of life in a downtown district hollowed out by Covid-19.“I think the mood is one of hope and optimism, one where [voters] want the supervisors and the mayor to work together, around common sense solutions to the issues we have,” Lurie told The Post in an interview Friday at City Hall.

Sixty-four percent of San Franciscans believe the city is on the right track, according to a Chamber of Commerce poll — a striking turnaround from 2024, when locals were overwhelmingly sour on the city’s leadership.Public drug use, rampant theft and embarrassing corruption scandals tainted the city’s reputation for years before a moderate voter revolt, financed largely by tech bosses such as Ripple chairman Chris Larsen and venture capitalist Michael Moritz, ousted progressive elected officials.

Lurie, 48-year-old heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, unseated former mayor London Breed in 2024 on a promise to upend the status quo.The newbie mayor has sought to balance the city’s shaky multibillion-dollar budget while approving raises for cops and fighters, partly by trimming back the city’s hefty nonprofit contracts that have totaled more than $1 billion annually.

While Lurie noted he’s still relatively new to the job, he offered one suggestion to fellow elected officials: Focus on results.“That’s the only advice I would share with anybody in any elected position — focus on where you are governing,” he said.

“The city of San Francisco, the people deserve a mayor and a board of supervisors that are focused on getting results and delivering common sense, reasonable policies,” Lurie added.On Tuesday, San Francisco voters easily reelected two moderate supe...