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| Subject: YaY! Ed Lee, San Francisco's first Asian American mayor, dies from heart attack Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:51 pm | |
| Ed Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants who rose to become the first Asian American mayor of San Francisco in 2011, died early Tuesday after a heart attack.
Former mayor Willie Brown told the San Francisco Examiner that Lee was shopping at his neighborhood Safeway when he suffered the attack. Lee died just after 1 a.m. at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, with friends, family and colleagues by his side, the city said.
The 65-year-old Democrat — an affordable-housing advocate who led the city during a time of ballooning rents and explosive real estate prices — was remembered by political leaders as a defender of civil rights. This year Lee clashed with President Trump by declaring that San Francisco would remain an immigrant-friendly sanctuary city.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/12/san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-dead-at-65/?utm_term=.bbe5e31ef706
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