SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 1.29.2025
The first day of The Year of the Snake is not a happy one for San Francisco political rabble rouser Man Kit Lam.
Kit Lam is out of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration after less than a month.
Last March it was all smiles as then candidate Levi Strauss & Co. scion Daniel Lurie brought Kit Lam aboard as a liaison to the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
After Lurie’s victory in the Mayoral election last November, Kit Lam joined the incoming administration. It was a short lived tenure in the Mayor’s office.
His fate with Daniel Lurie is similar to that of his brief tenure with Supervisor Joel Engardio. Kit Lam managed Engardio’s 2022 successful Supervisorial campaign. He then came on as one of Engardio’s legislative aides. He left after a year.
At the time Kit Lam left Supervisor Engardio’s employ I was told he had a difficult working relationship with fellow legislative aides in City Hall. Then Mayor London Breed’s office also had a difficult time working with Kit Lam.
In both instances, Kit Lam said publicly he left for “personal reasons” and said he still supported both his former employers.
During 2021 and 2022 Kit Lam was active in the successful campaigns to Recall three School Board members and District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
Prior to entering the electoral arena Kit Lam did investigative work for the San Francisco school board. He was laid off several years ago.
In Hong Kong Kit Lam worked for law enforcement.
Top photo. Jason Kruta and Kit Lam confront each in the San Francisco Richmond District other during the School Board Recall petition campaign in 2021.
San Francisco MSM trumpeted the settlement of Man Kit Lam’s civil law suit against Jason Kruta. The young man who briefly disrupted his successful campaign to recall three Progressive School Board members in February 2022. An act for which Jason Kruta was fired from his job and was criminally prosecuted. A prosecution which was not enough for vengeful Man Kit Lam. He sued Mr. Kruta in San Francisco Civil Superior Court. A lawsuit which concluded in 2023.
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