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London Breed

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“Oh, they can visit SFggov.org, or they can call 311, the residence of San Francisco, if you're looking for resources or support or help. You can also email Mayor London Breed at sfggov.org.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I will say that I never expected to be mayor. I couldn't believe what I won for the Board of Supervisors. And I didn't realize that being an elected official would even be in my life because of where I came from, the challenges with my background. And I'm a very spiritual person. Part of what I rely on if something feels right. And the fact is right now I love being mayor of the city that I was born and raised in and I feel like there's no better job than being mayor. And so I'm not sure what the future holds for me in the political life, but it's always going to be centered around public service. So we'll see.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let me ask one more question. I think I'm coming in kind of deep on your thing. That's okay, I don't care. Do you want to run for higher office? I mean, you've gotten a lot of attention. A lot of women have been doing very well with the cities. They've seen countries they've been running. We can get into that on a whole nother topic. But do you want to run for higher office getting this attention you've gotten for this? Well,”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like I said, I don't want much. I just want to go get my nails done. I want to go get my hair done. I want to massage. I want to go eat at a restaurant with my friends. I want to go wine tasting in Appa. Like I don't want much. I just want to go and relax and enjoy myself and maybe have a nice vacation.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In terms of thinking when this will be over Well, first, I'll say it's not going to be really over until we have a vaccine because there's still a possibility as long as this is out there, there's still a possibility of people being infected. So it's going to change our lives as we know it in terms of how we interact with one another. But I think that I'm hopeful that sometime soon we can come out of this in the next month or two and we're able to kind of get back to some.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“More of the giving and the support and the volunteerism, the giving back to be incorporated in the work that they do. And I think that would make a real difference in the relationships between tech and people in San Francisco.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wealthy folks who really, it's a part of the fabric of who they are, like the Gettys and Warren Hellman and folks who have been institutions in the giving world. And I think that with the tech world, because these are people who are newly established wealthy people and they have a different kind of personality in comparison to maybe folks who have developed their money in the ways that some of these folks have and they I don't know if they see a connection between their wealth and their responsibility to their fellow citizens some do and some are very generous and some try and they're trying to be active and engaged he's been incredible with not only contributions but incorporating volunteerism and work from his employees so I think part of what I'd like to see is”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think that because they're more probably more global, it seems a little different. Like they have workforces all over the world. And I also think that these are people who are newly wealthy people and have never probably understood the philanthropic needs or responsibilities of those who are in the wealth category. The reason why I think Mark Benioff is a lot different, I mean, first of all, he's a native San Franciscan several generations. His family has a real long history here. And he grew up in this world and understands the need to also give back and to use your wealth to support others. And so you have this kind of like a lot of the old school, not that he's like an older person, but like a lot of the old school.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you think they get that they live in San Francisco? I mean, have you been able, you know, one of the things is they sort of live above in these beautiful offices with their cafeterias and everything else. And it sometimes feels they don't feel like they are a part of San Francisco. And in the past, other things like banks had been part of the social fabric.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With computers to our public schools. We're seeing the apps that are being created that are helpful to us in order to do our job. So just realizing what tools they have at their disposal and giving back by providing that as a resource, taking care of their employees, and making contributions to the things that will help residents of this city that are less fortunate.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At the center of it. Well, first of all, I've reached out to a lot of the folks in the tech industry and a lot of them have made contributions to our give to SF fund, which is a public-private partnership to provide support for food insecurity, for housing, and for small businesses. And I really want to appreciate Mark Benioff and the work that Salesforce continues to do to not only support San Francisco, but he's supporting the whole country with PPE. And I mean, I'd like to see, you know, the tech industry not only take care of their employees, because I think that's important to make sure that we don't have more unemployed people than necessary. But I'd like to see them do more contributions and using some more of their technology and tools. I'm sorry, I don't know the name of the company, but they created the app that's going to allow us to do the contract tracing. So like we're seeing a lot of philanthropics.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tourism is significant because part of it is it's not just it's conventions in tourism, right? So when you think about the hotels where there's a hotel tax paid and that hotel tax money goes into our general fund, it supports our arts, it supports a lot of things. When you think about the restaurants, And you think about all of the different shopping businesses, the retail, the convention fees, everything that is done in this city has the revenue we generate has a lot to do with our tourism industry. And it is going to be hit hard and it's going to take some time to recover from that.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“More people who are struggling. We're going to see something we've never seen before as it relates to poverty and economics and inequality and the things that are really going to change. Because when we reopen, all of a sudden people aren't going to start coming to San Francisco on vacation. It's going to take some time for us to get back financially to a better place.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think we can change that. That's probably going to be a lot harder because it has been. It continues to be before this happened. I was basically taking a ballot measure to the voters this November. I was collecting signatures because I wasn't able to get the support on the board of supervisors to allow 100% affordable housing as of right and to allow projects that exceed the affordable housing requirements to also do as of right. And so I wanted to get housing production moving faster. And unfortunately, we're not going to probably be able to take that to the ballot for this November, but I am hopeful that we're going to be able to propose some policy decisions that will cut the red tape because if we don't do that, you think about it. I mean, after this is over, they're going to be more people who are homeless.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am hopeful that that's the case. I am hopeful that this gives us the opportunity to start to get rid of fees and all kinds of things that will help keep these business.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The restaurants have been paying, the businesses have been paying for insurance. We've been able to give them back some of that money to pay for extra week of sick leave for their employees. So we're looking at creative ways to try and give that money back to small businesses to take care of their employees. So we're trying to make sure, because there's also certain laws that we have to follow and we have to be very careful about what we do that it fits within the scope of what we're able to do because we collected the money.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm hopeful that this is an opportunity that's realistic because we have already been exploring this, what we've done because we've not gotten the support we need to make changes on the board level, but we've taken money and reinvested it in the businesses. So we've given them back their money in some cases. And this is before all this was going on. We've been able to identify resources that will give them a fee waiver or other things so that it kind of helps with maybe $800 here, $1,000 there. For a small business, that matters. In fact, one of the first things I did was not only delay the tax payments for businesses until February of next year, but we also delayed the fee payments and we are exploring whether or not we can eliminate those fees entirely. And then secondly, the money that”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let me tell you. I hope so. Because the thing that drives me crazy, and even before this pandemic, the fact that we talk about in this city, we care about small businesses. And every time you turn around, Board is passing legislation to, and I will take responsibility for this in some cases when I served on the board too, to add a fee, to add a fee, to add a fee. And it's ridiculous. And these businesses are expected to pay all of this. And on top of the rents that we can't control, they're paying certain fees, you know, in most cases, they do pay decent wages just to their employees. They are providing health care benefits to their employees. And then they're paying all these city fees for a cash register, for tables and chairs, for just things that I think are ridiculous.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mean everyone's going to start going back out there, shopping, or eating at restaurants. The question is, what can we do to cut fees for small businesses? What can we do to provide grants or loans? Now, for example, we established a fund where we could provide $10,000 grants and up to $50,000 no interest loans with a six-year repayment plan. And we're not going to be able to help everyone based on the amount of money that we have in this fund. Public dollars that have been identified. There's private dollars that have been provided to this. We want to increase it as much as possible because we want to help people now too, but what happens after this is over?”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's been approved, but people need to be fed now. So we've We're doing some things now which I can talk about, but this economic recovery task force, the goal is to develop a strategy for the future. So for example, working with our educational institutions to provide training for a specific industry or a specific purpose or retraining for people to get them back to work, right? So whether it's free classes or whether it's some sort of trade or what have you, like how are we going to get our economy going? And so we're going to have to redirect our attention because there are things that may not be possible when we come back as there might be businesses that there might be restaurants that may not come back. There could be certain coffee shops or places, boutique shops and other small businesses that may have real trouble. Because again, when you open back up, it doesn't.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, what is this going to look like? And jobs are going to be important, access to work is going to be the most critical, making sure that people are not evicted is going to be important, making sure that people have access to food and some of the basics. And so how are we as a city going to propose policy changes and income strategies that will help in this recovery? So this task force goal is to, yes, of course, we have some resources now. We've done a lot of things now, not enough, but a lot for a city with hopefully soon to receive some federal stimulus support, hopefully someday.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We had a close to a little bit over $400 million budget deficit that was basically anticipated. And we usually for that sort of budget deficit, we're able to kind of manage it better than what we're talking about now.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, one of the things that I launched a couple weeks ago was an economic recovery task force. Carmen Hu, our assessor recorder, our treasurer Jose Neros, the director of the labor council, and the director of the Chamber of Commerce. They're going to co-chair this task force with a specific agenda to help our economy recover from this, whether it's our artist, our small businesses, folks who work in various industries, in the hotels, the restaurants, the medium-sized businesses. Where do we go from here? What is our plan when we start to basically reopen the city? What is that going to look like? And with a projected 1.1 to 1.7 billion dollar budget deficit, we are definitely going to be in trouble. So, how are we”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we are doing what I think is the best that we can because, again, there are people who have real challenges that it doesn't make it, it's not as simple as we can give someone a hotel room and everything is like we have moved the, for example, families who were in our family shelters. It was not very difficult to move the families into hotel rooms and we do not need a lot of management. There's not a lot of oversight. That has been a simpler process, but there are certain populations that and certain individuals that are definitely a lot easier to work with and they're pretty much on their own and we don't really need to provide them with any support resources. We just need to make sure that we have cleaning service. They're fed and they have whatever support we can offer. There's a major population that's just a lot more challenging.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and we're having a real problem with that. We really are. And so that's really been a little bit of the holdup because if social distancing wasn't necessary, then it wouldn't probably be as challenging. But it's challenging because of the social distancing that's required of all of us. And then when you're trying to work with someone who refuses to keep their distance and also wear a mask and the basic things you're asking them to do when you're helping them, that is frustrating and difficult. So it's not to make any excuses to be clear. We are signing up for as many hotels as we can get. We've put over 750 homeless people into hotel rooms. And I don't know any other city that's done as many as we have. We have hotels for our healthcare workers, for our first responders and other folks. We are providing the three meals a day and the services and the support.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Leaving the facility and basically then coming back and then kind of interacting with people when we're asked we're just we're okay like people have to leave they want to go smoke their cigarettes they you know they want to live their lives and we understand they need fresh air but at the same time the biggest challenge we have is getting them to comply with some even the basic rules So it's hard because there is no way that we're going to be able to open a hotel and then not have the appropriate staffing levels and support necessary to support that population because otherwise it makes no difference, right? Because”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of managing this is not as simple as, okay, we have all these hotel rooms. We're going to start moving all these people in because, you know, we're having problems with folks who are in one another's room and we're asking them not to, are getting several people at a time on the elevator when we're asking them to limit the number of people in the elevator.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A hotel that we acquire, we have to have someone at the front desk making sure the only people coming into the hotel are people who are clients in the hotel. We have to make sure there's a site manager, there's 24-hour security, there's three meals a day, there's cleaning service in how we train the hotel staff of what to do and what not to do, how we maintain social distancing in the elevators, which has been a real problem, people with their pets and other issues, folks who are not complying with wearing the masks when we provide them to them and ask them to. So it's been very challenging. It's been challenging even before, but now the social distancing has made it difficult, moving people from the shelter to the hotel rooms with their stuff or with their dogs or what have you, it has to be pretty much one person at a time and it can't be in a car. It has to be in a van where there's distance even in the vehicle.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the caseworkers, the shelter workers, the people who work with this population traditionally, the homeless outreach team, all of these people are now concerned about their own health and the health of their families. And so it definitely has been very difficult. So we started early on trying to thin out the shelter system to move the most vulnerable population, those over 60, into hotel rooms. And we have had to increase our capacity. And what that means is we've had to call in not only disaster service workers, which every city employee is a disaster service worker, but some of our nonprofits that we basically fund to come into work. And it's been difficult to get people to agree, to come in to do this work. So we can't just move people into a room without making sure that, for example,”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think that what needs to be made clear is that it's not simple. The problems that existed with our homeless population don't just go away because there's a pandemic. In fact, it's a lot more difficult to manage. People who struggle with mental illness, people who struggle with substance use disorder, they have real challenges. You have people who have caseworkers and they have support. And in the past, if they would show up intoxicated or high or what have you, it was different than now because, you know, dealing with social distancing and trying to serve a client is a whole nother arena. And so...”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, okay. Yeah. And again, I probably would need to rely on public health experts to help us to understand where we are in that fight. UCSF and our Department of Public Health, they work closely together and UCSF is really taking the lead on many of those.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really focused on that because they're researching. And then lastly, on this part, when you're thinking about treating patients with COVID-19, one of the things is this idea of getting better and better at treatment of it. I guess it's mitigation. But you said the AIDS crisis, there was a point where the AIDS crisis was a death sentence, and then it wasn't. It was not for everybody that they were able to find treatments that would keep people alive, that would keep people healthier and living with AIDS, you know, the whole idea of living with AIDS. And where are you all on that? Because at some point, until we get a vaccine, that's what we have to do is get better and better about treating the illness.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes I think that that's really with UCSF, they're really focused on that because they're research institution. And so that's really important. What they are and other, I think, institutions like UCSF are focused on doing, of course, is a vaccine. They're focused on understanding this virus and how it works. And that's an important part of it as well.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It would be nice. It would be very nice if that were the case. And so I think the shortage of test kits and that particular challenge is significant. And I hope that we get to a better place. I know here, again, UCSF and the resources that they have have been incredible. They've been great partners along with some of our other hospitals in helping us to set up places and provide testing access for city employees and those who exhibit symptoms or who are not insured. A city employee that I know got tested on Monday and got the results back Tuesday and is negative. Like this is exactly what we need to happen for more people who may not even exhibit symptoms.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“By allowing testing is critical because when you talk about contract tracing, because right now we're only testing people who exhibit symptoms. And we have an app even, and we've been working and getting city employees and others and people who don't have insurance, we're going to test anyone who exhibits symptoms here in the city as much as we possibly can. But what will also help us if we increase our capacity people who have been in contact, and this is where contact tracing comes in, people who have been in contact with those who test positive, we need to be able to track them down, test them, and rule them out, right? So that's really how we get to a place where we can really start to identify who is infected so that we can get them in quarantine so that we can keep them away from other folks because there are a lot of folks out there who don't even exhibit any symptoms, who are positive and they can basically infect somebody else, which is everybody.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Able to flatten the curb in some regards, we're going to rely on them to help us transition out of this as we prepare to recover”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We close churches, we close schools. I mean, this is almost 100 years ago, right? And then November, we thought, okay, there's no more deaths. We're coming out of this. Everyone threw out their maths. Everyone partied. And a couple of days later, a lot more people died. Things started to spike again. And all of the work that had been done, you know, they basically, it was almost for nothing because it got worse. And I just think we got to be careful about that. But we also know that we need to get the city open. We need to go back to work and other things, but we have to do so when it's safe. And I think contract tracing, as well as more testing and resources are going to play a role in helping us get there. But I just think that it's just like we relied on health experts to guide us into this situation where we're”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that every decision that we've made has a lot to do with the data, with the facts, with our healthcare professionals who are monitoring the situation. And I will take their advice on what to do next. And I think that our goal, of course, is to prepare for what the future looks like after the coronavirus. We don't want to jump ahead of ourselves and think, okay, we're doing great and then reopen the city and then have a surge and it get out of control. That's what happened in San Francisco in 1918 during the Spanish flu when in September it really, you know, I mean, first of all, I think it's somewhere around 50 million people worldwide died from the Spanish flu. And in San Francisco, we started early. As soon as it hit, we closed down the city.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, they need people to comply. They social, they didn't social distance. So what else works from your perspective? It's just information and constantly changing. That's one thing. Is there things that you're looking at now that you think will help mitigate what's going on? Obviously everyone's getting, my brother happens to be a doctor at CPMC in the emergency room. And he said, I have to give it to Mayor Bree because I was expecting the absolute worst and it's been manageable. Like the case and in fact more than manageable. And he was sort of just waiting for disaster and a nightmare situation. And he, of course, is on the, we just got to keep doing this for a very long time. That's really pretty much his message to me. From your perspective, is that what has to happen? It has to just last for a certain amount of time.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we don't want to be put in the situation where we're closing the parks. Don't drive to the beach. Don't drive to a park that's not in your neighborhood. Get out, get some fresh air. If you need to walk somewhere, but maintain social distancing. So I think communication has of what to do and what not to do has played the most critical role and people taking it seriously. I don't know what else could have, you know, and also I think seeing what's happening in New York. I mean, it's one thing to see what happens in Italy because you think, okay, that's far removed and China and Italy. But right here in the United States, in New York, I think that has also played a role in getting people to comply.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For example, when we had one weekend, it was really nice and everybody was at the beach. Everybody was at the parks. The next day I had to get on, I showed up at a press conference and I basically said, look This can't happen, or I'm going to close the parks. So we immediately closed all the parking lots. We immediately put in certain systems into play. We know you need to go outside and get fresh air. And we had to explain to people what we expect because we want you to stay as home as much as possible and we want to leave the parks open. We want to leave to leave the grocery stores open. There are things we need to do. But if you go out and you don't socially distance yourself, what's the whole point of why we're doing this?”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think those are the main things that people take. The people who are not, it's not 100% compliance in San Francisco by no means.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Situation, this is like nothing we in our lifetimes have ever experienced before. So what that requires is everyone being open to change. We may say that we need to do one thing today and depending on data or something may shift that gives us an indication that this is not the right move. And because of public health, we have to make a shift. And so I think we've made that clear so people have been very open to that and very understanding as long as we communicate. And I think that is so critical to make sure that we're getting the facts out there and we're providing solutions and we're making recommendations. And that's really, I think, what has helped us a lot.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Why, even though I had basically said no events over a thousand except essential stuff, which was like schools, and we had got together to say, look, these are some of the reasons why we think we need to keep the schools open, which includes meals for kids. They're not a part of the vulnerable population. We don't want kids to miss out on their education because some kids may not have access to a computer or the internet. So we expressed those concerns. And then the next day, the decision based on some new cases and some things that emerged to close the schools. And the reason why that was the right decision because part of it, unfortunately, was to protect the health of not only the kids, but the teachers and the workers and everyone else. And so we had to make a change and we had to explain to the public why we went in a different direction the very next day because this is an evolving.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So what I think worked is that part of how we communicated the messaging, we were from day one when I got out there in a press conference and talked about the coronavirus and what was happening and what might be coming. When we started to talk about it, we made it clear to the public that every time we know something, we will let the public know as soon as we can confirm the information. It was important for us to be very, very honest with reality like what is going on even if it's uncomfortable for people to hear. And then also to talk about recommendations of what we can do about it. So we had been doing that from day one. And I think people really appreciate that. So, for example, the day before the schools were closed, we had a press conference with the superintendent and other school board members to say that this is”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what do you let's talk about? Let's stop talking about Trump because he's useless. Let's talk a little bit about what you think worked. What do you think worked and what do you think has to work now? What do you think the critical elements are?”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's okay. I mean, because I don't definitely don't do this work for praise. At the end of the day, I want people to say the mayor of San Francisco overreacted and everything was better than we thought it was going to be.”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When he was sort of downplaying it and you were not downplaying it, what does that feel like? I mean, I know there was a lot of Californians overreacting, over-dramatizing over this. Did you just ignore it completely?”
2020-04-17 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's really like I was never gonna rely on the federal government to help us through this because sadly it's been already challenging for our city financially with this president. And I am just hopeful that between our governor and the work that we're trying to do here and some of the work that Congress is trying to do around stimulus, that that's going to lead to some sort of help for the people of the city in this entire country because we are truly all in this together and we can't keep letting the president be a distraction to this. We just have to work around that.”
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“I would say that I want to just appreciate the work of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and how hard she and Senator Kamala Harris and others are working to fight for support and to take this pandemic seriously. But we also need to talk about the realities of what we're dealing with with our president. And it's been really challenging to have someone who in office who you can't trust, who provides an accurate information, who is just very challenging to believe when dealing with what is a world pandemic. And it is what it is. We can't dwell on that because we know who he is. We can't control what he does or what he says. We can only focus on what we're able to do. And I think.”
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