Newsom’s Double Standard

It’s an easy out for the Mayor – allowing him to express concern about what happened, without alienating the Asian-American community in a re-election year. But Newsom never tried to “fix loopholes” in the City’s Catastrophic Illness Program, after Dennis Herrera found nothing illegal about the Mayor’s girlfriend getting $10,000 in payments for alcohol abuse. At seven different points in that report, Herrera said that the facts surrounding Ruby Rippey-Tourk’s paid leave raises “policy questions” that the City should look into, but Newsom never proposed “clarifying” amendments.

Despite heroic efforts from his lawyers to obfuscate the intent of the law, it is clear that Ed Jew does not live in the Sunset District. His neighbors never see him there, the house has practically no water usage or garbage collection, and for crying out loud – he turned himself into police authorities in Burlingame!

While it’s true that “residency” is based on a Supervisor’s subjective intent of where they plan to reside, there is enough evidence to prove that Ed Jew intends to live in Burlingame. Merely saying otherwise does not make it so.

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