London Breed
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40 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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There are so many different things that happen. Last time when we talked on the podcast, I talked about my brother who's incarcerated and how we both went to the public school system. He didn't even graduate from high school and I did. It's hard to finger point where the issue happened, but I feel really honored and grateful to God for that.
just the strength to overcome so many of those obstacles and to get my education and to want to go back to the community and make a difference.
I don't know if I would say that I have the best temperament because I have a temper. But I will say that I have remained true to who I am as a person. But the whole reason why I got involved in public service in the first place is because of violent crime in my community where people were dying, where our homicide rates were significant in the 90s. And it is...
just amazing to see us in a better place than we've ever been before. And I've always said it is always the will of the voters that I'm going to respect and be grateful that I had the opportunity to serve.
I think so a little bit, yeah. I didn't talk about it much, but when the mayor calls you and to not return the mayor's call, that was pretty offensive. Or to sit in a meeting with me and to look at my chief of staff and talk to him and not talk to me directly.
In the moment, I'm like, hi, I'm right here. Nice smile. And I'm the one who makes the decision. And then I move on from it. I didn't come from money. I come from the hood. I didn't have built in relationships with a lot of these people, but I did do what I could to try and reach out to people and develop those relationships and make sure that my door was always open.
So even if someone opposed me, which, you know, I had a member on the board of supervisors who was just the worst person to work with. That person's name was what again? Uh, Well, here's the interesting part is somehow once that person decided they wanted to work with me, we developed a tight, really good working relationship. And so what I've always said is, look, I may not like you.
I don't have to like you, but I will work with you.
No, I just think when I wake up in the morning, I'm the mayor of San Francisco. Like, I'm the mayor of San Francisco. So come right in. Look, sometimes it shows on my face, but I'm a grown-up here, and I have to be better than somebody who's petty because you don't particularly care for someone. I mean, you know what's in your head, but the business of the people is the most important.
I can't just... support or work with the people who voted for me. I can't just talk to the people that I wanna talk to. And it's what anybody in elected office should be if you are here for the right reasons to get the business done for the people. And I've been able to accomplish a lot because I've always kept the door open.
So under the law, I can't look at other opportunities until I actually leave office. And so I will be having a lot of meetings once I leave office because I need a job.
I think that the biggest thing we need to do is cultivate young, new talent. I mean, my race is a perfect example. I am a perfectly capable, qualified Democrat who runs a major city. And when you have young Democrats... You guys like that, huh?
When you have people in these various positions, whether it's mayor or board of supervisors or other places, we have to invest the resources into helping to grow our talent pool to ensure that we have a pipeline
I think that the tent needs to be open. Again, I come from nothing. So I've only mostly volunteered and helped people in their campaigns. So it's significant that I'm mayor. So how do we capitalize on that in order to ensure that people like me don't get lost by the party? It really does start with how do you get more people choosing to register as a Democrat rather than decline to state?
I would be open to it, but I'm not 100% sure that that's the right route to go.
I mean, it's politics. And you got to remember, politics is never going to be nice and wrapped into a neat little bowl. It's going to be something you have to fight for. The reason why I struggle with the open primary has a lot to do with, I want to see the Democrats united.
And I want us to do the work to get behind the candidate, whether we agree with that person or not, to really fight for that candidate. And also to listen to people as to why they might want something different. We may see something or hear something and we say, oh, they don't know what they're talking about. But you know what?
if you listen closely and you hear what they're saying, you have to think about, well, how do we appeal to the people who we believe may not know what they're talking about?
I just think you have to be a little bit more open-minded and not just toss someone to the side just because their beliefs aren't 100% of what you think our value system should be because clearly we got a lot of work to do and we have to understand all those different states differently than we have in the past.
I was able to get the Chinese government to commit to allowing San Francisco to host pandas. You went to China to get the pandas. I went to China to get some panda bears. It's called panda diplomacy.
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