Pius Lee

Lee's family were landlords. As a teenager, Lee fled to Macau from the newly founded Communist republic in China with his father. From there, they moved to Hong Kong, where they stayed until 1963, when they moved to San Francisco in 1963 under a refugee support program. After moving to San Francisco, he worked odd jobs while attending night school and later became a licensed real estate agent. He sold homes to Chinese families in the Richmond District and Sunset District and built a real estate portfolio consisting of properties across San Francisco, from the Marina District to Chinatown. Lee is the owner of California Land and Realty, Inc. == Political career ==

Lee was appointed president of the San Francisco-Taipei Sister City Committee by Mayor Dianne Feinstein. As president, he began the effort to build the Golden Gate Pavilion in Golden Gate Park in 1981. In 1992, Lee organized a gun buyback program while serving as a police commissioner that gathered approximately 1,600 guns. Political influence Lee praised the Democratic Party for their policies toward minorities and the impoverished but also admitted that it is impractical to be a Republican in San Francisco. Lee is the chairman of the Chinese Six Companies, which holds significant political influence in San Francisco Chinatown, and the Chinese Neighborhood Association. The two organizations lobbied the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to ban marijuana ads on MUNI buses and proposed a 50-dispensary cap in San Francisco. Lee and Pak both opposed a proposed recall of Mayor Ed Lee in 2016. == References ==