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Re/code executive editor Kara Swisher has declared her intention to run for mayor in her home city of San Francisco. She says her 2023 bid for the position currently held by the embattled Edwin Lee — his 2016 inauguration was interrupted by protesters, for example — is sparked by a desire to shake up the political establishment. And she hopes to tackle the seemingly inexorable issue that Baghdad by the Bay struggles with: the divide between tech and the rest of the city. “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 wrote in an email message to the San Francisco Chronicle. “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.” She insisted to the Chronicle that her bid was serious — but doesn’t plan to run until 2023. The Re/code editor declined to comment to IBD. @chernandburn No! Podcasts and then my kid’s 11th birthday. Passel o’ tweens takes full attention (also why I would be a good mayor) — Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) April 15, 2016 Swisher is a longtime and one of the best-known Silicon Valley and tech journalists, providing definitive coverage of Yahoo ( YHOO ), among other firms. She began covering digital issues in 1997 for the Wall Street Journal. Her longtime spouse, Megan Smith — they are now separated — was once a high-ranking executive at Google, which is a unit of Alphabet ( GOOGL ), and is now the U.S. chief technology officer for the Obama administration. Scalper1 News
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