Dear Fellow San Franciscans,

We launched this campaign 13 months ago with the strong belief that it’s time for accountable leadership in City Hall. After years of record-high budgets, worse outcomes, and more excuses, San Franciscans are ready for change.

Over the past 13 months, I’ve had the great experience of meeting with San Franciscans in every corner of our city, learning about your frustrations but also your hope and desire to be part of writing our next chapter. After 250 meet and greets and more than 100 merchant walks, I am proud to report that hope is alive and well in San Francisco!

A hope powered by our love for this city we call home. But hope alone is not enough. Strong values are not enough. They have to be drivers of action and results.

Our collective challenge is to show how the government can deliver on its promises:

• Clean and safe streets for all.
• Tackling our drug and behavioral health crisis.
• Shaking up the corrupt and ineffective bureaucracy.
• Building enough housing so our neighbors can afford to live here.
• Breathing life back into our downtown, and ensuring our small businesses are thriving.

Here’s the truth: Turning around this city is not going to happen overnight. No matter who wins this election, we have extremely difficult challenges ahead.

But here’s another truth: our opportunities and advantages are more powerful.

This moment calls for leadership rooted in true public service, one that puts the people of San Francisco above all else. To tackle these issues, we need to work together and turn the page on the politics of demonizing each other on every issue. You poured your whole selves into this campaign. Tonight, I am asking you to pour that same passion and energy into turning our city around. It’s time for us to roll up our sleeves and work together – no matter the outcome of this election.

Thank you to everyone who has stood with me. I am deeply grateful to my wife Becca, our children, my family, friends, supporters and my campaign team. Above all, I’m grateful to every San Franciscan who loves this city and is fighting for a city that works, and for a city that loves them back.

The campaign is over, but the work continues.

Thank you,
Daniel Lurie