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Eliana Lopez on Ross Mirkarimi and their family looking forward
On 08.18.2012, two days after the final San Francisco Ethics Commission hearing regarding Mayor Ed Lee's suspension of her husband, elected Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and Lee's attempt to have him permanently removed from office. Lopez has stood by her husband and steadfastly insisted that he did not abuse her. The decision as to whether Mirkarimi will be removed or reinstated is now up to the Board of Supervisors.
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Ross Mirkarimi spoke to the press after the last San Francisco Ethics Commission hearing regarding Mayor Ed Lee's attempt to have him permanently removed from office. Photo courtesy David Elliott Lewis.
Transcript and more photos: http://www.anngarrison.com/audio/kpfa-news-eliana-lopez-on-ross-district-5-the-ethics-commission-and-looking-forward
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The witch-hunt and threats to Supervisors continues.
This was in the Examiner yesterday, threatening Eric Mar: “He has to decide between his Burning Man buddies and Richmond district residents.”
Whatever happened to the merits of the case? Clearly those are already meaningless. And again, pushing with the poll created by those who seek to remove him -- what were the questions? The open poll on the Chron website showed the opposite results.
Supporting Mirkarimi could cost Mar in supervisorial election
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/08/los-angeles-dislikes-san-francisco-s-tax-approach
Now that the Ethics Commission has recommended that two of the charges against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi be sustained, it is up to the Board of Supervisors to vote to remove him.
Every writer in town has suggested that the board’s vote will come down to a handful of progressive supes. Well, those supervisors might be interested in the results of a mid-August poll commissioned by advocates of domestic violence prevention, including Janice Mirikitani, founding president of Glide Memorial Church.
Overall, 51 percent of the poll’s 500 respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a supervisor who votes to let Mirkarimi retain his position as sheriff. Among Asians, that number was 58 percent and among whites it was 56 percent.
Only 44 percent of blacks and 29 percent of Hispanics would be less likely to vote for a candidate who supports Mirkarimi.
In one supervisorial race, this is already a campaign issue. Supervisor Eric Mar, who represents the heavily Asian District 1, is a progressive in a tight re-election race against challenger David Lee.
On Sunday, Lee took to Facebook and Twitter to ask, “How should our current Dist 1 Supervisor vote?”
I spoke with Lee’s campaign manager, Jim Ross, who told me that this is far from the last we’ll hear about this subject on the campaign trail.
“It’s an interesting issue that could go away real quick if he’ll just say, ‘I’ll vote for removal,’” Ross said. “He has to decide between his Burning Man buddies and Richmond district residents.”
This was in the Examiner yesterday, threatening Eric Mar: “He has to decide between his Burning Man buddies and Richmond district residents.”
Whatever happened to the merits of the case? Clearly those are already meaningless. And again, pushing with the poll created by those who seek to remove him -- what were the questions? The open poll on the Chron website showed the opposite results.
Supporting Mirkarimi could cost Mar in supervisorial election
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/08/los-angeles-dislikes-san-francisco-s-tax-approach
Now that the Ethics Commission has recommended that two of the charges against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi be sustained, it is up to the Board of Supervisors to vote to remove him.
Every writer in town has suggested that the board’s vote will come down to a handful of progressive supes. Well, those supervisors might be interested in the results of a mid-August poll commissioned by advocates of domestic violence prevention, including Janice Mirikitani, founding president of Glide Memorial Church.
Overall, 51 percent of the poll’s 500 respondents said they would be less likely to vote for a supervisor who votes to let Mirkarimi retain his position as sheriff. Among Asians, that number was 58 percent and among whites it was 56 percent.
Only 44 percent of blacks and 29 percent of Hispanics would be less likely to vote for a candidate who supports Mirkarimi.
In one supervisorial race, this is already a campaign issue. Supervisor Eric Mar, who represents the heavily Asian District 1, is a progressive in a tight re-election race against challenger David Lee.
On Sunday, Lee took to Facebook and Twitter to ask, “How should our current Dist 1 Supervisor vote?”
I spoke with Lee’s campaign manager, Jim Ross, who told me that this is far from the last we’ll hear about this subject on the campaign trail.
“It’s an interesting issue that could go away real quick if he’ll just say, ‘I’ll vote for removal,’” Ross said. “He has to decide between his Burning Man buddies and Richmond district residents.”
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