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Daniel Lurie Tried to End Poverty in the City. Now He Wants to Be Mayor.

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Lurie founded and was the CEO of the antipoverty nonprofit, Tipping Point. He’s also heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and has put more than six million dollars of his own money into his San Francisco mayoral campaign. In the last of our interviews with the major candidates, we talk with Lurie about how he’d solve San Francisco’s most entrenched problems, and why he thinks it’s time for the city to be run by an outsider candidate who hasn’t held elected office. Guests: Daniel Lurie, founder and former CEO, Tipping Point Community - a nonprofit grant-making organization that fights poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Daniel Lurie founded Tipping Point, which worked with dozens of nonprofits across the city

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to alleviate poverty and strengthen

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education.

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He's also one of the heirs to the Levi-Strauss fortune and has put more than $7 million

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of his own money into his San Francisco mayoral campaign, completely changing the nature

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of the race.

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In the last of our interviews with the major candidates, we talked with

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Lurie about how he'd solve San Francisco's most entrenched problems and why he thinks it's time

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for the city to be run by an outsider candidate who hasn't held elected office. That's coming up next,

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