San Francisco’s new mayor is heir to Levi Strauss
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San Francisco’s new mayor Daniel Lurie and his supporters say his wealth means that he owes no favours in a city that has grappled with widespread corruption.
PHOTO: MIKE KAI CHEN/NYTIMES
Heather Knight and Alain Delaquérière
San Francisco’s new mayor, Mr Daniel Lurie, is a wealthy philanthropist himself, his fortune coming from his late stepfather, a Levi Strauss heir and long-time Levi’s chief executive.
His rise has inspired optimism in a city desperate for change, but also questions about whether a political neophyte, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, can run the fourth-most populous city in the US state of California. At the same time, institutions all over the region are arguably beholden to his family.