San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie demanded that power be restored at the city’s Opera House — so his daughter could perform as the lead role in the Nutcracker ballet as her dad’s constituentsendured days of darknessjust before Christmas.
Lurie, the wealthy heir to the Levi Strauss jean fortune and fixture in SF’s high society set, “requested” PG&E send emergency generators to the San Francisco Opera House asthe blackout blanketed huge swaths of the city, CEO Sumeet Singh said at a hearing at the Board of Supervisors — a claim a company representative later walked back, according to reports.
Records obtained by The Post show the mayor was “directly” involved in the call to redirect scarce backup power to the Nutcracker ballet — a holiday tradition for the city’s posh upper crust.
“I would like to personally recognize both the Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor himself-who has been very engaged with us directly- we have succeeded in getting PGE to relocate two massive generators from another site to the Opera House. See photo,” bragged Kate Sofis, director of the War Memorial Opera House, in a Dec. 21 email.
The same day, PG&E rep Jake Zigelman assured the mayor in a text that he was “working feverishly” to restore power to the ballet after Lurie demanded updates on restoring power in Civic Center, which is home to the opulent War Memorial and Davies Symphony Hall — as an estimated 20,000 homes and businesses were still in the dark.
The despised utility shared atone-deaf X postthat day boasting that the 2 p.m. Nutcracker performance — where Lurie’s daughter performed as Clara — was “ON using its backup generator” and it was working to “secure temporary generation” for the 7 p.m. show.
SF Outage Update: The 2PM#Nutcrackerperformance at the#SFOperaHouse is ON using its backup generator. PG&E is helping secure temporary generation for the 7 PM show.pic.twitter.com/CPjVUILS3S
The company was torched for prioritizing the ballet while much of the low-income Tenderloin and residential Richmond neighborhoods languished without power for up to 48 hours.
“The show must go on, but f–k the residents who live in the area,” Richard Bullock chimed in.
“The self appointed elites in SF need their nutcracker while other people are 24+ hours without power having to throw away an entire fridge of spoiled food, can’t cook, have no heat,” another resident fumed.
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