Mark Farrell

I think that they're going to be successful, and I think it will be the culmination of what's a years-long effort by moderates in the city to reform the city charter.

If you remember back in 2024, there was another Proposition D by an advocacy group called Together SF that similarly had some $9 million in change behind it, ultimately failed kind of spectacularly, but only because it was tied to Mark Farrell, who ended up being an unpopular mayoral candidate.

This time around, they are being championed by an extremely popular mayor, and they have all kinds of money behind them.

And what I find interesting in particular about the money that's going to D, E, and F is that Lurie has seemingly been able to pull in donors to these measures who are not traditional givers in San Francisco politics.

That is a cryptocurrency company.

And while he was a big London Breed ally, he has now become a big Daniel Lurie ally and financier, and he is, uh, funding a lot of the mayor's efforts.

Michael Moritz, likewise, was a big supporter of Mark Farrell in the last election cycle, and has similarly turned towards supporting our mayor in his efforts.

He is, uh, the chairman and also financier of the San Francisco Standard, and, uh, actually started as a Time journalist and became a tech venture capitalist.

This is recommendations.

That task force had been created by Proposition E in 2024 when the initial Proposition D, sponsored by Together SF, the Mark Farrell for Mayor campaign against its supporting Prop D in 2024, failed.

Prop E was fast creating that streamlining task.

And it's a charter revision.

They, they imposed on him that it was his obligation to the city to be the mayor.

And so Ed was the mayor, and then, uh, and then Ed died, and there was a minute where someone else was mayor, Mark Farrell was mayor.

But then, um, London Breed was elected, and London was also, you know, a protege of Willie's, I mean, was created by Willie.

You know, so the, um...

And, um, I would say that a lot of the glowing national portraits are premature.

Uh, I think that what we have found is that people were hungry for a candidate who made them feel good and that didn't, uh, put the city's head in the toilet for political gain, which London Breed did, which Mark Farrell did, and now they're in the toilet.

And, uh, so you know, that, that is a message to everybody who runs campaigns in San Francisco that, like, you know, that kind of, um, trashing the city for political gain, um, i- is, you know, uh, will, will come back and get you sooner or later.

Uh, I think Daniel Lurie comes off as genuine and friendly and, uh, and well-meaning because he is.