Mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater on Wednesday. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Five mayoral candidates squared off at the first major debate this week ahead of November's election, where they spoke on key issues like crime, housing and drug overdose deaths, The San Francisco Standard's Josh Koehn reports.
The candidates: Mayor London Breed, former mayor Mark Farrell, anti-poverty nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, and supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí.
A snapshot: Here's what they said they'd do if they could change one thing about SF overnight.
Breed: Add 100,000 housing units
Farrell: Bring the San Francisco 49ers back to town
Lurie: Fix the schools
Safaí: Fix the drug overdose crisis
Peskin: Fix the civil service system to fill vacant city positions
Who won: "The only correct answer seems to be … nobody," Koehn wrote. "But no one lost either."
"One issue the mayor faces in these debates is that the bar is higher for an incumbent," he added. "Breed needs to be head and shoulders above her challengers after six years in the Mayor's Office."
