London Nicole Breed was born on August 11,1974 and is an American politician who is the 45th and current mayor of the City and County of San Francisco.
58 Facts About London Breed
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London Breed was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
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London Breed was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 2012, and elected its president in 2015.
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London Breed served in this role from December 12,2017, to January 23,2018.
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London Breed won the San Francisco mayoral special election held on June 5,2018.
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London Breed was sworn in as mayor on July 11,2018.
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London Breed earned a bachelor's degree in political science-public service from the University of California, Davis in 1997 and a master's degree in public administration from the University of San Francisco in 2012.
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London Breed was named to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Commission in 2004.
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In November 2012, London Breed was elected to the District 5 supervisor seat, defeating incumbent Christina Olague, who had been appointed to the seat that year by Mayor Ed Lee after Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was elected sheriff.
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London Breed was inaugurated as District 5 supervisor on January 8,2013, with then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris administering the oath of office.
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On January 8,2015, London Breed was elected President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors first by a vote of 8 to 3 and then unanimously.
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London Breed defeated supervisor David Campos, who was nominated for the position.
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London Breed succeeded District Four Supervisor Katy Tang, who assumed the presidency temporarily after then-Board President David Chiu resigned to begin serving in the California Assembly.
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In February 2016, London Breed announced her reelection bid to represent District 5.
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London Breed was unanimously reelected to another two-year term as Board President on January 9,2017.
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London Breed served in this position until January 23,2018, when the Board of Supervisors selected Mark Farrell to serve as the interim "caretaker" mayor until a special election on June 5.
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Progressive Supervisor Hillary Ronen delivered a speech accusing London Breed of being supported by "white, rich men" and billionaires such as Ron Conway.
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London Breed led in the initial count's first-place votes with 35.6 percent, with Mark Leno in second with 25.9 percent, and Kim with 22.8 percent.
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London Breed resigned as president of the Board of Supervisors on June 26,2018 and was succeeded by Malia Cohen in a unanimous vote by the Board.
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London Breed was elected to a full term in the 2019 mayoral election against five relatively unknown candidates.
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In March 2019, London Breed awarded a posthumous certificate of honor to Sinn Fein politician and former IRA member Martin McGuinness for his "courageous service in the military".
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London Breed apologized two days later following controversy over McGuinness's involvement with the IRA.
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On January 23,2020, London Breed endorsed Mike Bloomberg for president in the primaries.
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London Breed has worked to expand mental health and substance abuse recovery beds.
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London Breed authored legislation with Supervisor Rafael Mandelman to expand San Francisco's conservatorship laws, based on California Senate Bill 1045, authored by State Senator Scott Wiener.
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London Breed created a task force of members of the San Francisco Department of Public Works to clean up feces from city sidewalks, known as a Poop Patrol.
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Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Matt Haney have criticized London Breed's actions, saying that according to the city's ethics laws it is illegal for a supervisor to accept gifts from a subordinate.
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In November 2020, London Breed attended an eight-person birthday party at the Michelin 3-star restaurant French Laundry in Napa County during the COVID-19 pandemic in California.
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In 2021, London Breed called for allowing small businesses to use sidewalk and parking spaces indefinitely as outdoor dining spaces.
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On September 16,2021, videos surfaced showing London Breed violating the city's mask mandate by not wearing a mask indoors while dancing at the Black Cat nightclub.
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The city's mask mandate, advocated by London Breed, requires everyone to wear a mask indoors regardless of vaccination status.
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London Breed authored legislation in 2014 to allow the San Francisco City Attorney to pursue civil damages against graffiti taggers, instead of solely relying on criminal prosecutions to punish taggers.
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London Breed fought for substantially more funding for emergency medical services, ultimately succeeding in getting $47.3 million invested to hire EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, and 911 dispatchers, as well as buy new ambulances and fire trucks, and improve SFFD facilities.
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London Breed's work helped her earn the sole endorsement of the San Francisco Firefighters Local 798 union in the 2018 mayoral election.
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In 2015, London Breed worked with then-Mayor Ed Lee to help add 400 new police officers to the San Francisco Police Department.
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In July 2019, London Breed signed an ordinance effectively banning the sale of e-cigarettes in San Francisco, both at brick-and-mortar stores and online to a San Francisco address.
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In 2015, London Breed helped pass "neighborhood preference" legislation to prioritize neighborhood residents for the affordable homes built in their community.
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The Affordable Divis group requested that London Breed rescind the law, citing concerns about the availability of affordable units and lack of community input.
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London Breed declined, citing the need for more homes in the city and conflicts with Proposition C from 2012.
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In 2017, London Breed coauthored legislation to provide civil counsel for tenants facing eviction, reducing the chances of vulnerable tenants unfairly losing their homes.
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London Breed is a major advocate for modular housing, arguing that it can be built more quickly and cheaply than conventional construction, helping the city create more housing sooner.
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London Breed carried multiple pieces of legislation allowing Muni to purchase hundreds of new buses and replace its entire fleet of trains.
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London Breed worked with Muni to launch a morning commute shuttle train, serving the most crowded stops from Cole Valley to Downtown.
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London Breed worked with then-Supervisor Scott Wiener in 2013 to persuade Muni to change the seat layout in its trains from forward-facing to side-facing to create additional room for passengers.
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London Breed worked with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Bay Area Rapid Transit and carried the legislation to add cellular service for riders on Muni's underground trains.
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London Breed cosponsored 2014's Proposition A, a $500 million bond to fund street repaving, infrastructure repair, transit service improvements, and increased bicycle and pedestrian safety.
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London Breed was the deciding vote to place 2014's Proposition B on the ballot, which required transportation funding to be increased with population growth.
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When Kezar Drive, a major thoroughfare in her district, fell into disrepair, London Breed addressed what she called a "case study in bureaucracy" between the Department of Public Works and Recreation and Parks Department and got the road repaved.
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In 2015, London Breed coauthored legislation to create San Francisco's Transportation Sustainability Fee, requiring residential developers to pay a fee toward transportation improvements.
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London Breed carried the legislation to place Regional Measure 3 on the San Francisco ballot in June 2018.
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London Breed cosponsored the 2014 legislation to implement Vision Zero, a plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities via improved engineering, education, and enforcement.
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London Breed cosponsored the 2016 legislation to create the city's Transportation Demand Management Program, in which housing developers provide transit benefits to their residents such as transit passes, bike parking, and carpool programs.
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London Breed passed legislation in 2015 banning certain obstructions to bike lanes and removing parking minimums in new buildings.
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London Breed had work on the project stopped and called a hearing at the Board of Supervisors about the matter.
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London Breed later passed legislation with then-Supervisor Scott Wiener to revise the city's contract awarding process, emphasizing a bidder's past safety record.
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London Breed worked for the subsequent 17 months to launch CleanPowerSF, often fighting with the Lee administration.
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In March 2021, London Breed launched a program to provide guaranteed income to artists impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In September 2022 a public records request revealed London Breed had required 48 of her appointees to boards and commissions to sign undated letters of resignation for her use.