Daniel Lurie

As an elected official, the most important characteristics are integrity, transparency, and accountability. Public trust depends on leaders who uphold the law and prioritize ethical behavior, not just in their decisions but in their everyday actions.

City Hall insiders have spent years building and exploiting a broken system. Our city deserves better and replacing one insider with another is not going to change things for the better.

Far too often, we’ve seen elected officials use loopholes, accept questionable donations, or engage in conflicts of interest, which only deepens the mistrust between residents and City Hall. As mayor, I will close the slush fund loophole, require greater transparency in campaign finance, and ensure that those who violate ethics rules face serious consequences. It’s not enough to talk about values—we need to enforce them.

By fully funding the San Francisco Ethics Commission and giving it the resources to audit, investigate, and hold wrongdoers accountable, we can begin to rebuild that trust. Ethical leadership isn’t just about following the rules—it’s about leading by example, ensuring the public feels confident that their government is working for them, not for insider interests.

In my administration, transparency and ethics will be a priority, and I will lead the charge to clean up City Hall.

In 2005, I founded Tipping Point Community (TPC) to identify, fund, and support impactful poverty-fighting organizations in the Bay Area. Under my leadership, TPC grew to become the largest and most innovative anti-poverty organization west of the Mississippi, all without accepting government funds.

Tipping Point spearheaded the construction of a first-of-its-kind affordable housing building on Bryant Street, completing the project on time and under budget while employing good-paying union labor. In response to the devastating North Bay Fires, I mobilized efforts to collect donations and distribute funds to community-based organizations, including organizing a sold-out relief concert at AT&T Park that raised over $17 million for victims.

As a lifelong Democrat and San Franciscan, I am running for mayor to turn around the city I love. I have dedicated my career to improving the lives of people throughout San Francisco. Tipping Point has raised more than $500 million, delivering measurable results in early childhood education, employment, housing, and education. My accountable leadership has facilitated innovative projects that helped house 40,000 people and prevent countless others from falling into homelessness.

Inspired by my parents' commitment to service, my wife Becca and I are dedicated to raising our children in a San Francisco we can all be proud of.

I am proud to have the endorsement of a diverse group of San Franciscans.

Civic & Public Safety Leaders:

Former SF Mayor and Police Chief Frank Jordan

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the First Surgeon General of CA

Vicki Hennesy, Former Sheriff of SF

Paul Yep, Commander, SFPD (Ret.)

Robert Yick, Captain, SFPD (Ret.)

Pat Gallagher, Past SF Travel Board Chair

Mabel Teng, Former Assessor-Recorder & Former SF Board of Supervisors

Organizations:

GrowSF

LiUNA! Local 261

UFCW 648

Restaurants & Small Businesses:

Amanda Michael, Owner, Jane The Bakery

Michael & Lindsay Tusk, Owner, Quince and Cotogna

Gilbert Pilgrim, Owner, Zuni Café

Mousa Shamieh, Owner, UpForDayz Coffee

Tate Chan, Owner, The Wok Shop

I’ve had countless conversations with San Franciscans in every corner of the city and I haven’t met a single person who thinks City Hall is up to the job of solving today’s problems.

Our government has been hijacked to serve political agendas rather than the city’s best interests. The result is many years of record budgets wasted because of corruption and political greed. If we’re going to turn our City around — and I promise you we will — we can’t let creative solutions continue to die slow bureaucratic deaths.

My City Hall Accountability Plan will address the root cause of our problems, which is the outdated, ineffective, and corrupt City Hall system. In order to fix City Hall, I am going to restructure it. That will allow us to finally deliver results on clean and safe streets, shelter beds instead of encampments, ending corruption, supporting small businesses, and more.

This plan to fix the foundation of our government will make our city safe and clean, and stomp out corruption.

There are three pillars:

(1) Centralize contract management and oversight. A specialized unit of experts will oversee the $5 billion of taxpayer money that goes out the door each year. This will take contracting out of departments so they stop functioning as independent and unaccountable fiefdoms.
(2) Reform the broken permitting process and the Department of Building Inspection. This will bring transparency and end the need to hire “permit expediters”, the corrupt pay-to-play process that exists in SF.
(3) Streamline construction management. With centralized planning and coordination we will avoid debacles like the Nightmare on Taraval Street and the $1.7 million toilet.

City Hall insiders have been telling us we can’t change our systems for so long. I’m not buying it. Together we will make City Hall accountable to the people of San Francisco.