Mark Farrell Wants to be Mayor…Again

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mark Farrell was born and raised in San Francisco, and now he wants to be the city’s mayor…again. Farrell served as mayor for six months in 2018, completing the term of Mayor Ed Lee who died unexpectedly in office. Farrell contends that the city has been on a downward spiral since his short tenure: on the campaign trail, he paints a city in decline, plagued by homelessness, a lack of public safety, and a situation in the Tenderloin so dire it requires intervention by the National Guard. A two-term former supervisor for District 2, Farrell argues that his past experience and moderate politics are what San Francisco needs at this moment. We talk to Farrell as part of our series of interviews with the five major candidates in the San Francisco mayoral race. Guests: Mark Farrell, former mayor, San Francisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.9	Mark Farrell served as mayor of San Francisco for six months in 2018, completing the term of Ed Lee who died in office.
1:10.0	Farrell contends that the city has been on a downward spiral
1:12.8	since his short tenure. On the campaign trail, he paints a city in decline, plagued by homelessness,
1:18.4	a lack of public safety, and a situation in the tenderloin so dire it requires intervention by the National Guard.
1:24.6	A two-term former supervisor for District 2, Farrell argues that his past
1:29.3	experience and moderate politics are what San Francisco needs at this moment. We'll talk with him
1:34.7	about his vision for the city after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:53.8	Mark Farrell is a Westside dad.
1:56.2	And in keeping with his dad forward campaign, he told our politics team he's coached nine of his kids' sports
2:01.7	team since he left city government in 2018. He has run as a law and order common sense candidate,
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