Lee Heidhues 9.26.2023
Heather Knight, who spent 20 years at the San Francisco Chronicle pitching law and order.
In the latter part of her tenure Ms. Nightcrawler scurrilously used her poison pen to destroy progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The Nightcrawler has now planted her poison pen as San Francisco bureau chief for the The New York Times.
In one of her opening pieces Heather failed to get the Haas family lineage of Mayoral challenger Daniel Lurie correct. Daniel is not a direct descendant of the Levi Strauss & Co. founder Levi Strauss.
In typical Heather fashion, more suited for The New York Post, she leads her story with, “he (Lurie) decided to run for mayor when he was walking his 9-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter to school, and they saw a man stumbling down the street, naked and screaming.”
Details matter. Heather’s Faux Paux Unzipped.
A correction was made on Sept. 26, 2023:
Because of editing errors, an earlier version of this article and correction referred incorrectly to Mr. Lurie’s familial connection to Levi Strauss. His mother married Peter Haas, who was a great-grandnephew of Mr. Strauss; neither Ms. Haas nor Mr. Lurie is his direct descendant.
Too bad Heather’s former employer The San Francisco Chronicle failed to equally check her misstatements when she was trashing, unfairly, Chesa Boudin.
Excerpted from The New York Times 9.26.2023 by Heather Knight
Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss clothing fortune, announced on Tuesday that he would run against Mayor London Breed of San Francisco next year, at a time when the city is struggling to overcome a number of crises in its downtown core.
Mr. Lurie, 46, planned to launch his campaign Tuesday at a community center in the city’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, a longtime working-class area now dotted with multimillion-dollar homes and upscale shops. His entrance in the race signals that Ms. Breed may be vulnerable in her bid for re-election and may have lost the support of some moderate allies.
Mr. Lurie said in an interview that he intended to campaign on solving the city’s quality-of-life problems, and that he blames Ms. Breed for doing too little to tackle them.
Mr. Lurie is the founder of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit. He said that he decided to run for mayor when he was walking his 9-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter to school, and they saw a man stumbling down the street, naked and screaming.
Ms. Breed, 49, and Mr. Lurie are both San Francisco natives and Democrats, but have very different backgrounds. Ms. Breed, the first Black woman to lead the city, was raised by her grandmother in public housing near City Hall, and now rents an apartment in the Lower Haight, a lively neighborhood popular among young tenants for its restaurants, nightclubs and colorful Victorian homes.
Few San Francisco residents have family ties — or riches — that extend as far back in the city as Mr. Lurie’s do. When he was a young child, his mother married Peter Haas, a great grand-nephew of Levi Strauss, the German immigrant who opened a dry goods shop in San Francisco in 1853, when the city was bustling with new arrivals seeking gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Mr. Strauss found his own fortune by making durable denim pants for miners, and his company is still synonymous with bluejeans today.
Mr. Lurie’s mother, Mimi Haas, is a billionaire. His father, Rabbi Brian Lurie, was the executive director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco. Daniel Lurie is living in Potrero Hill temporarily while his house in Pacific Heights, the wealthy residential area where he grew up, is being renovated.
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