The City Attorney's gone through all the residency documents that beleaguered Burlingame boy and erstwhile supposed San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew provided last week, and ---- baaaaaaaaahmp -- (that's supposed to be a buzzer sound like when you guess something that's not on the board on Family Feud): the City Attorney has concluded that the documents currently on file are insufficient to demonstrate that Ed Jew lives in San Francisco. Oh no, Ed Jew!
Namely, of the documents that Tapioca Ed provided last week, the City Attorney did not receive: any tax returns from 2006, any phone bills from the SF residence, any cable bills from the SF residence, any information about magazine or newspaper subscriptions, or any information about the address for which the Jew family takes their homeowners' tax exemption. Hey, maybe Ed Jew 1) took an extension on his 2006 returns, 2) makes all calls on a cell phone, 3) reads the Chron online at work, and 4) got someone to tape the Sopranos finale for him last night!
The operative date by which Ed Jew is required to have lived in San Francisco is 30 days before filing to run for office, or July 12, 2006 (Jew filed on August 11, 2006. Can someone check our calendaring?) As for the operative date to prove up, Jew's got until Friday to give the City Attorney the rest of the documents and sit for an interview. As the deputy city attorney's letter sternly notes, "If your client is able to make statements to the press regarding the status of his residency, then we do not understand why he is unwilling to make statements on the record to this office." ABC 7 has a copy of the letter if you want to read it yourself.
Unrelated, but amusing: Leah Garchik points out that July 15 is National Tapioca Day. The 15th is also Respect Canada Day, for what it's worth.
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If Ed Jew is found to not live in District 4, what exactly happens? Is he thrown out/removed from office by the City Attorney? Does the Mayor appoint a replacement? When does District 4 get to elect a new Supervisor? Thanks a bunch!
What's also great about that letter is that the Tapioca-Gruel team are also claiming that the FBI took their evidence.
Stick a straw* in him. He's done.
Or whatever you eat those tapioca things with...
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You'd think that they'd verify this sort of thing *before* the election ...
I'd say that based on his superior knowledge of residency requirements, Ed's all set to run as Vice President of the United States of America.
Why verify residency before the election when you can always use it as a coup d'gras for a three way set up for those who veer off the reservation?
Corporate San Francisco is trying for a bold "end game" to off the pesky nature of participatory democracy.
Fucking with Jew gives Newsom a free shot. The City Attorney, Chronicle and probably entities sympathetic to both in the permitting subculture seem to have worked together quite effectively on this.
Recalling McGoldrick distracts progressives this fall if not costs us a seat, gives Newsom a second free shot.
Add to this the parking measure, and it seems like a coordinated strategy.
-marc
I am not qualified to check your calendaring, but I feel certain that your deployment of the adjective erstwhile earns a baaaaaaaaahmp.
He's not an erstwhile supervisor yet, although it sure seems like he will be before long.
Also, marc is out of his friggin' mind.
Why isn't this scumbag in jail or at least thrown out of city hall??? Geeez!
true, true, "erstwhile" probably does jump the gun a little, doesn't it? (I write these posts kinda fast is my only excuse.)
But "purported" didn't seem right either! What's a good synonym for "someone with a cloud over their reign"? "penumbraed"? Maybe I'll go with "residentially-challenged."
[update: I went with "supposed." Boring, I know.]
oh, and yes! While I'm editing my own comment, I can answer Megan's question too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think under City Charter 13.110(e), if they find that Ed Jew doesn't live in SF, he has to be removed from office. If a Supervisor is removed or resigns from office for any reason, Newsom gets to appoint the replacement under City Charter 13.101.5.
Here's a link to section 13 of the City Charter if you want to double-check my cites:
http://www.municode.com/content/4201/14130/HTML/ch013.html
I want a bumper sticker that says: "What Would Ed Jew Do?"
coup d'gras? as in they throw foie gras at him?
In the event of removal or resignation, the mayor appoints a replacement, but then there is a by-election at the next scheduled election (November 2007 in this case). This happened with Sean Elsbernd and Phil Ting.
i love the conspiracy theory by marc in the post above. what a dildo!
yeah, we all made ed jew chinese, greedy, and stupid.
a total conspiracy!
Most of you probably don't know this, but there's a very old part of the City Charter that wasn't brought online. It still holds, however. It reads:
"Should a Board Supervisor be found with malfeasance to not properly reside thusly in his District, he will be henceforth catapulted from the Capitol Grounds in an eastwardly direction to-wards the Baye."
There's more in this part of Charter about how the Mayor is entitled to comely lasses as compensation, but that isn't relevant here. I believe the catapult is still in the City Hall basement.
Can Ed Jew swim?
I'd prefer a bumper sticker for Ed Jew that says: "TapiocaGate"
David Latterman, are the comely lasses of virtue true?
I'm afraid not. The actual text reads, "And these lasses shall hail from the land of the north, by the wyld Baye". Today, of course, that's the Marina.
First, rita, the July 12 date is correct :) Second, when Jew signed his "Intent to Solicit or Accept Contributions for Local Office" on FEBRUARY 28, 2006, he listed the 28th Ave. place as his residence. Third, he signed a sworn statement on August 11 saying that he met residency requirements. So, perjury too??
Defenders of Ed Jew: Save yourselves! Do not go down on the Tapioca Titanic!
The elections docs are here: http://abclocal.go.com/three/kgo/iteam_ed_jew_filing_papers_1thru3.pdf
First, rita, the July 12 date is correct :) Second, when Jew signed his "Intent to Solicit or Accept Contributions for Local Office" on FEBRUARY 28, 2006, he listed the 28th Ave. place as his residence. Third, he signed a sworn statement on August 11 saying that he met residency requirements. So, perjury too??
Defenders of Ed Jew: Save yourselves! Do not go down on the Tapioca Titanic!
The elections docs are here: http://abclocal.go.com/three/kgo/iteam_ed_jew_filing_papers_1thru3.pdf
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
Another sticker:
Ed Jew: "Quickly" Bribed! or "Quickly" using water!
I'm sure it'll be linked on SFist before long, but I can't wait for that! Check out this amazing quote from a letter sent by Ed's lawyer Steve Gruel to the City Attorney's Office:
"Not only has your office displayed a degree of unprofessionalism which I have never witnessed, but the City Attorney's actions further underscore what is discussed on the streets -- that this 'investigation' is politically driven against the supervisor."
Who knew Steve Gruel had his ear to the streets like that! Keep it real, Steve!
What a pathetic act of desperation. Does anybody really believe that Ed Jew has been living in the Sunset for the past six months? (That's a rhetorical question. The answer is "no.")
Full story at SF Gate...
For once Marc may be on to something. All these badly co-ordinated attacks on Gavin's detractors aired at the same time. I wonder who owns the URLs?
Meanwhile, who has the brownest nose in D4? Will Ed go to jail (soon)? What will Barbara Meskunas say next? Now that she's stomped out of CSFN, who will have her?
Maybe Gavin will appoint her Supe! "Christopher, BRING ME THE AXE!"
Whatever happened to Julie "Kevin Killer" Lee? Is she in jail yet?
Meskunas will fall back on her 4-person organization: the Taxpayers Union.
Look for her, Comstock, and Gruel if it ever has a meeting.
Oh, wait, make that her 3-person organization; Ed probably won't be going to the next meeting.
Question:
Why did Fed Ed turned himself in to the Burlingame Jail?
Answer:
Because they serve better meals to prisoners than the San Francisco jails.