Recode’s Swisher to run for San Francisco mayor

Recode co-founder Kara Swisher plans to run for mayor of San Francisco in 2023.

Emily Green of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, “It’s hardly the news one would expect from the woman described by New York magazine in 2014 as ‘Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist.’

“But Swisher said she’s serious. A former Wall Street Journal columnist, Swisher co-founded the San Francisco technology news website Re/code in 2014 with journalist Walt Mossberg. Vox Media acquired the website last year.

“‘We all yammer about politicians and how bad things are, and I think it important that we stop bellyaching and act if we want change,’ Swisher wrote in an email.

“‘Also this whole election cycle has struck a chord in me that I have always thought about, related to professional politicians and how we need to shift thinking about who should serve and the duty of citizens to be, you know, citizens,’ she continued. ‘There is an important and necessary role for good government and I hate this wholesale tearing down of it. Also the increasing divide between tech sector and the city is something that I think a lot about. Not that I have solutions as yet.'”

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