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SAN FRANCISCO (KABC) -- San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died suddenly early Tuesday morning at age 65.

Lee suffered from cardiac arrest while he was out shopping at around 10:30 p.m. Monday, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told ABC7's sister station KGO-TV's News anchor Carolyn Tyler.

A statement from the Lee's office said the city's first Asian-American mayor died at 1:11 a.m. Tuesday at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Just Monday, Lee was at a recycling event in San Francisco, where he was smiling and shaking hands.

http://abc7.com/politics/san-francisco-mayor-ed-lee-dies-at-65/2772017/
 
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article189432779.html

The fallout of Ed Lee's death.

A bespectacled man who had made his career as a civil rights attorney and then in a series of bureaucratic positions, Lee was the first to admit that he was no Gavin Newsom, no Willie Brown, no Art Agnos, no Dianne Feinstein, no George Moscone, no Joe Alioto. But history will remember Lee not merely as a politician, but as a true public servant.

He wasn’t flashy, even as the city’s first Asian American mayor. The son of immigrants from China was self-effacing and understated. He talked about collaboration and consensus. He wasn’t out to make a name for himself. In fact, it was Lee’s claim to fame that when Newsom’s rise to lieutenant governor in 2011 prompted the vacancy at San Francisco City Hall, he didn’t really want to be mayor.

Nonetheless, when the city, back on its heels from the devastating recession, needed unity and guidance, it was Lee who willingly stepped up – and without fanfare.

On his watch, San Francisco came roaring back with a redoubled tech economy, an influx of high-paying jobs and a housing market to match. It was a recovery that, as Newsom later put it, was like “drinking from a fire hose.”

And when Lee died unexpectedly on Tuesday, hours after collapsing while shopping at a Safeway store near his home, the whole world paid attention – not just to mourn the father of two, but to ponder the loss of a steady hand in a city of worldwide consequence.

San Francisco isn’t just the smaller, quainter of California’s two most famous cities. It’s the hub of an economy that encompasses much of Northern California and drives the tech sector all over the globe. It matters who is mayor of San Francisco because San Francisco matters – increasingly even to Sacramento.

The capital city has, under Mayor Darrell Steinberg, tied its fortunes to those of San Francisco. Each day, more than 100,000 Sacramento-area residents commute to the Bay Area, and nearly another 100,000 come here to work.

There’s a reason why Barry Broome, CEO of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council, spends so much of his time in San Francisco, lobbying priced-out companies to move their offices and employees here instead of relocating to equally cheap Texas or Arizona.

While prices for swanky new condos continue to climb to astronomical heights in the Bay Area, they are more manageable here.
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