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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Smile.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-59709\" title=\"Smile\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Smile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\">\u003c/a>Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere else in California. We're in this Golden State together. Right?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Vallejo \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/03/BADM1NFGLH.DTL\">settled its bankruptcy situation\u003c/a>, Stockton has become the new poster child for the California city careening into \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/27/municipals-stockton-mediator-idUSL2E8QRBD520120327\">insolvency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, Stockton has so much going for it. Cover your eyes, urban planners: the Central Valley city is close enough (80 miles east) to count as a suburb of the San Francisco Bay Area. It's got colorful history dating back to the Gold Rush era, a natural inland seaport, and lots of hot weather ... for those who like hot weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did I mention it's a suburb? \u003c!--more-->You could say that blessing is at the heart of Stockton's current crisis. During the housing boom, the real estate market soared, as people who work close to the coast fled East in search of lawns and a reasonably priced third bedroom. City leaders signed off on generous public employee union contracts and took on big debt to fund a big redevelopment project on the waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, the housing market crashed. As NPR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2012/03/11/87314/an_example_to_avoid_city_of_stockton_on_the_brink?source=npr&category=economy\">Richard Gonzales\u003c/a> put it on Weekend Edition Sunday recently, \"Those homes that sold for more than $400,000 are now going for less than $150,000.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn't help that so many people drive elsewhere to work, but at least they have jobs. In February, the unemployment rate for San Joaquin County clocked in at 16.6 percent. Although, it's worth noting that employment is seasonal in this Central Valley city because agriculture is one of its economic pillars (\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYMXdy01OI&feature=youtu.be\">asparagus\u003c/a>, anyone?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the media piles on. \u003ca href=\"http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2110115,00.html#ixzz1qbxv4kZt\">TIME\u003c/a> writes \"Stockton has been down on its luck for as long as memory serves,\" as it warns, \"If a deal is not reached in the coming weeks — and prospects are bleak — Stockton will become the largest municipality in U.S. history to go bust.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577297801570813854.html?KEYWORDS=california\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> makes a point of picking out Stockton for its national survey of municipal murder rates, even though Stockton is hardly the only California city to lay off police officers lately, or struggle with gang violence. Also, if we're going to talk about a bounce back in murders from 2009 to 2011, let's include \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201106081730/a\">San Jose\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/27/map-a-month-of-oakland-violence/\">Oakland\u003c/a> in the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can't blame the media entirely for Stockton's PR problem, but the temptation is strong for some, especially after Forbes hoisted the city atop its annual list of \"Most Miserable Cities\" in 2011. As we noted on the California Report, Stockton locals were \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201104220850/b\">up in arms\u003c/a>. Thankfully, the mantle moved on to \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/02/02/americas-most-miserable-cities/\">Miami\u003c/a> this year. Still, the sting lingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who is gonna step up for Stockton?\" asks Ian Hill, the KQED Newsroom's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=49504\">Web Maven\u003c/a> - and its lone Stocktonian. He's lived there for the better part of six years, along with his wife. They have no plans to move any time soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We love our neighborhood, we love our house, and we love our friends,\" he says - and then after a beat, \"not necessarily in that order.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60697\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/tube-lightsources-300x173.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60697\" title=\"tube-lightsources-300x173\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/tube-lightsources-300x173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If we looked more closely, could we have seen signs Solyndra was headed for bankruptcy? (Credit: Solyndra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Has it really only been half a year since Solyndra \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/fremonts-solyndra-solar-tech-firm-suspends-operations-filing-bankruptcy/\">suspended operations\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, Solyndra was soaring above the rooftops, a green energy darling making thin film solar photovoltaic power systems for large commercial and industrial rooftops. \"Clever product!\" analysts and investors said. \"Big potential market!\" \"Who doesn't love Fremont?\" OK, that last thought was mostly expressed by people in the Bay Area, but the excitement was genuine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the price of Chinese solar panels dropped, and Solyndra's fortunes faded fast. (There's more on this rise and fall at the California Report's old blog \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/shiftinggears/tag/solyndra/\">Shifting Gears\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the collapse, new questions cropped up. 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In his remarks, Biden laid the credit for the loan guarantee and construction launch squarely on the Obama Administration's 200-day-old Recovery Act legislation, downplaying the role of the 2005 legislation and the nearly two-and-a-half-year process that had actually led up to this moment. Thus, Biden unwittingly inflated a political football that would soon grow to the size of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day float.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A flock of investigators swarmed into Fremont. They came from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-searches-shuttered-solyndra-offices-plant-in-california/2011/09/08/gIQAu4kRCK_story.html\">FBI\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/SOLYNDRA_FINAL.jpg\">Department of Energy Office of Inspector General\u003c/a>, the regional \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/13/grand-jury-begins-probe-of-bankrupt-solyndra/?page=all\">US Attorney's\u003c/a> office...even \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/solyndra-execs-stonewall-congress/story?id=14589597#.T3NRPtkmXTo\">Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last but not least, there came ex-FBI agent \u003ca title=\"http://www.brg-expert.com/professionals-todd_neilson.html\" href=\"http://www.brg-expert.com/professionals-todd_neilson.html\" target=\"_blank\">R. Todd Neilson\u003c/a>. Solyndra's board hired him to be the the company's chief restructuring officer, and to deliver a report for the benefit of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware - and Solyndra's creditors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approach anything with a healthy skepticism and with an understanding that I should look at things anew without the baggage of other opinions people may have,” Todd Neilson told the Wall Street Journal's blog, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2012/03/27/trustee-brings-fbi-accounting-experience-to-solyndra-probe/\">Bankruptcy Beat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, his 204 page report on Solyndra is filed and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/86917035/SolyndraCROreport\">available to the public\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>Today marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Not everyone is throwing a party. Detractors, who disparagingly refer to the law as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/embracing-the-obamacare-label/2012/03/23/gIQAO5eLWS_blog.html\">Obamacare\u003c/a>,” are hoping that next week’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/19/the-supreme-courts-4-health-care-reform-questions/\">extraordinary three days of hearings on the legislation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court will serve as prelude to a judicial override that shrinks the entire enterprise down to a historical footnote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60370\" title=\"paulruffino\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian Paul Ruffino, 55, has been looking for an insurance plan since leaving his previous job. Several insurance companies refuse to cover him because he has pre-existing conditions.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now you Bay Area folks, in the heart of the heart of Blue Territory — let’s face it, most of you are rooting for the legislation to prevail like you cheered on the Giants versus the Rangers in the World Series. Because the debate over the law has become something much more than an argument over a specific policy. Opposition to the act among Republican politicians is virtually mandatory, and its fate \u003cem>feels like\u003c/em>, at least, a proxy for the success or failure of the entire Obama presidency. Furthermore, opponents’ \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/public-options-death-panels-health-care-debate-evolved/story?id=15982445#.T20ZCo5GydM\">extreme interpretations\u003c/a> of the law’s provisions and their eventual effects are indicative of not just the gaping partisan divide, but an almost \u003cem>metaphysical\u003c/em> chasm between two distinct sets of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/health-reform-enters-2nd-year-amid-broad-changes-challenges-15404\">\u003cstrong>Effects of health care bill in Calif. so far\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (California Watch)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which all serves as our introduction to interviews that KQED’s Sarah Varney conducted when she traveled outside the Blue Bubble to Madera County, “a largely conservative and agricultural area where one in every three people lacks coverage,” as she \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">\u003cstrong>reports on our State of Health blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. “While many people say they want the Supreme Court to throw out the federal health law, I found that many there are struggling to reconcile their political views with the basic need for health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">Read the blog post\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">listen to The California Report segment here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As web extra — since many of you may only hear conservatives explicating their opinions when your in-laws are over for Thanksgiving and someone mentions global warming and then it’s “Hey why don’t we all settle down and turn the football game on, it’s THANKSGIVING for God’s sake!” — we’re posting three extended if edited transcripts from Sarah’s conversations with the folks in Madera County, as they explain their feelings about the health care bill. All three live in \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OCZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1245&bih=643&q=oakhurst+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x809427a27f5dbc67:0xd0683ed7bb7d8d81,Oakhurst,+CA&gl=us&ei=f_9sT-f6ApDZiQLGyNnGBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CFsQ8gEwAA\">Oakhurst\u003c/a>, a southern gateway to Yosemite north of Fresno; and all three are both uninsured \u003cem>and\u003c/em> opposed to the law to one degree or another. Here they are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Ruffino, age 55\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been involved in the hospitality business for 35 years at a corporate level and have always had full insurance benefits, major medical, vision, dental, the Cadillac of all packages. This last year I left my job and it was the first time I left without having another one because I was trying to decide what I wanted to do in my old age. I went on COBRA and that ran out. Now here I am at a more independent job, less of a corporate environment, that doesn’t have those insurance benefits. So I am looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m uninsured! It’s the first time in my life and it’s probably when I need it the most. I ‘m looking at AFLAC, but its very expensive. I was an athlete in college and I’m riddled with pre-existing conditions. So I’m out and about finding policies that wont accept things that I have… in my ankles, knees and my hurt back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m an old-school libertarian. I get frustrated sometimes when I see government putting their fingers all over it and then I sort of wonder if they have to. I wonder if we can leave it up to individuals and companies and the doctors to sort it out. Because you start getting involved in profit motivation then you effect everybody’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I find in government is lack of accountability. In corporate America, lack of accountability will get you fired. And all I’ve ever seen now is passing the buck, regardless of who comes in. The Democrats, Republicans, there’s no delineation anymore. That’s why I’m on the Ron Paul bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a Democrat until Reagan, then Republican, then back and forth with being an independent. Now I’m libertarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On being uninsured and his feelings about the law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not either/or for me. They hide these things. I started to do research on Obamacare and all these things and there’s so much other pork they put in there. I distrust government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’ I knew beforehand. I have to be responsible for my own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would I like to be better? There’s a greedy part of me that says I would. I believe there are people and Americans who need health care a lot more than I do because ultimately the bottom line is I can afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My concern is for people who can’t afford it. And that’s where I have to ask: Does there come a time when government has to get involved and at what levels? But when you are distrustful of the system it makes it difficult. I ping pong on this all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes back down to accountability. Our parents used to be responsible for us. Now parents blame everybody else. I think a lot of it has to do with education. We spend a lot of time educating people about sex, abstinence. The problem is we don’t educate people about insurance. It’s never talked about until people are in their 30s, 40s. So I think there’s a little bit of a wake-up call, saying this needs to get talked about soon. Knowing insurance and knowing your responsiblities are as important as telling kids about safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have eight children – seven daughters and one son – and my children knew about insurance by the time they graduated from high school. The system we have is sufficient if we have the information. Absolutely. It works. It really does work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do think companies have to be held accountable. They shouldn’t be allowed to cherrypick. Banks don’t let it happen in the private sector. If a company buys mortgage papers, they can’t buy all A paper. They have to buy the B,C, D paper in order to maintain their licenses. You could say if you want to operate in this community as a licensed health insurance, you must have a certain spread in your portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is kind of crazy. Is it irrationally crazy? No. To fix it, you have to get people to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t anticipate change. I don’t see it getting better…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Stern, age 66\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I own Joe Stern Water Conditioning. I only have two employees so the rates are pretty high. I offered it but they’ve elected not to take it. For myself, I’m on Medicare and I have a Medicare supplement through Kaiser. Before Medicare I had Kaiser, and I just paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I went on Medicare, I was paying $670 a month as a single person. And I consider that pretty high. And that was without dental or glasses. So I just paid my dental out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought it was pretty brutal but I was still against Obamacare by far. Because I saw how they did it in the middle of the night. It was just not how you do a radical change like that. You do it slowly so you don’t make mistakes. You study it. But you don’t say we’re going to find out what’s in it after we pass it, like Nancy Pelosi said. That was unbelievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything. So I think that’s terrible. The only reason they’re doing it is cause they can’t pay for it any other way and it’s just a horrible bill in every way. There’s nothing good about it. It doesn’t even insure more people like they promised. And by the way, I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that the cost has doubled from what they predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Congress is not qualified to make a law like that. When have they ever done any big change that came out good economically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think about Medicare?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Laughs) Well, yes, but it looks like we’ve got trouble coming up…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m glad on I’m Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid…\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I think we should always have a safety net for people, and I always thought we did. Why did we need this big cumbersome program that no one really likes except the most liberal people? Or people who just like Obama no matter what…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we have a safety net in the United States. When they were trying to get the health care bill passed, Obamacare, they said we’ve got 60 million uninsured. A lot of that may not be true. A lot of the uninsured don’t want insurance, like young people. They don’t think they need it. And a lot of people are qualified, for Medi-Cal for instance, and they just haven’t gone out and gotten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know of anyone that was left on the street to bleed to death. Unless they were some drunk. I don’t know anyone who was really left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is it important that everyone have health insurance? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. It’s important that everybody who wants it should get it competitively.\u003cbr>\nI think you get competition by… you don’t have the state lines when it comes to coverage, put it out to bid, use economies of scale to get it competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mandates? No. I’m a capitalist. I’m a free-market guy. I’m not for government control. Or anything government does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad I’m on Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid. And I’m glad I’m on it, it’s a good plan. Social security is a good plan, but where was that money? It wasn’t invested properly. Government that governs best governs the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. It’s only fair. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe a little bit. I am a compassionate person. At least I’m trying to be. I don’t want anyone suffering, and I love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still I just don’t think that works very well. It costs way too much. A lot of people just milk the system. If everything were free, then every time you go to a hospital, an aspirin would go up to $17. People would be going there all the time. People would be hanging out at the emergency room. That’s how I see it. Welfare Cadillac. That’s what I’m worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to really qualify the needy people who do get government assistance. 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Detractors, who disparagingly refer to the law as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/embracing-the-obamacare-label/2012/03/23/gIQAO5eLWS_blog.html\">Obamacare\u003c/a>,” are hoping that next week’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/19/the-supreme-courts-4-health-care-reform-questions/\">extraordinary three days of hearings on the legislation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court will serve as prelude to a judicial override that shrinks the entire enterprise down to a historical footnote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60370\" title=\"paulruffino\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian Paul Ruffino, 55, has been looking for an insurance plan since leaving his previous job. Several insurance companies refuse to cover him because he has pre-existing conditions.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now you Bay Area folks, in the heart of the heart of Blue Territory — let’s face it, most of you are rooting for the legislation to prevail like you cheered on the Giants versus the Rangers in the World Series. Because the debate over the law has become something much more than an argument over a specific policy. Opposition to the act among Republican politicians is virtually mandatory, and its fate \u003cem>feels like\u003c/em>, at least, a proxy for the success or failure of the entire Obama presidency. Furthermore, opponents’ \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/public-options-death-panels-health-care-debate-evolved/story?id=15982445#.T20ZCo5GydM\">extreme interpretations\u003c/a> of the law’s provisions and their eventual effects are indicative of not just the gaping partisan divide, but an almost \u003cem>metaphysical\u003c/em> chasm between two distinct sets of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/health-reform-enters-2nd-year-amid-broad-changes-challenges-15404\">\u003cstrong>Effects of health care bill in Calif. so far\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (California Watch)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which all serves as our introduction to interviews that KQED’s Sarah Varney conducted when she traveled outside the Blue Bubble to Madera County, “a largely conservative and agricultural area where one in every three people lacks coverage,” as she \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">\u003cstrong>reports on our State of Health blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. “While many people say they want the Supreme Court to throw out the federal health law, I found that many there are struggling to reconcile their political views with the basic need for health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">Read the blog post\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">listen to The California Report segment here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As web extra — since many of you may only hear conservatives explicating their opinions when your in-laws are over for Thanksgiving and someone mentions global warming and then it’s “Hey why don’t we all settle down and turn the football game on, it’s THANKSGIVING for God’s sake!” — we’re posting three extended if edited transcripts from Sarah’s conversations with the folks in Madera County, as they explain their feelings about the health care bill. All three live in \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OCZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1245&bih=643&q=oakhurst+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x809427a27f5dbc67:0xd0683ed7bb7d8d81,Oakhurst,+CA&gl=us&ei=f_9sT-f6ApDZiQLGyNnGBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CFsQ8gEwAA\">Oakhurst\u003c/a>, a southern gateway to Yosemite north of Fresno; and all three are both uninsured \u003cem>and\u003c/em> opposed to the law to one degree or another. Here they are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Ruffino, age 55\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been involved in the hospitality business for 35 years at a corporate level and have always had full insurance benefits, major medical, vision, dental, the Cadillac of all packages. This last year I left my job and it was the first time I left without having another one because I was trying to decide what I wanted to do in my old age. I went on COBRA and that ran out. Now here I am at a more independent job, less of a corporate environment, that doesn’t have those insurance benefits. So I am looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m uninsured! It’s the first time in my life and it’s probably when I need it the most. I ‘m looking at AFLAC, but its very expensive. I was an athlete in college and I’m riddled with pre-existing conditions. So I’m out and about finding policies that wont accept things that I have… in my ankles, knees and my hurt back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m an old-school libertarian. I get frustrated sometimes when I see government putting their fingers all over it and then I sort of wonder if they have to. I wonder if we can leave it up to individuals and companies and the doctors to sort it out. Because you start getting involved in profit motivation then you effect everybody’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I find in government is lack of accountability. In corporate America, lack of accountability will get you fired. And all I’ve ever seen now is passing the buck, regardless of who comes in. The Democrats, Republicans, there’s no delineation anymore. That’s why I’m on the Ron Paul bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a Democrat until Reagan, then Republican, then back and forth with being an independent. Now I’m libertarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On being uninsured and his feelings about the law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not either/or for me. They hide these things. I started to do research on Obamacare and all these things and there’s so much other pork they put in there. I distrust government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’ I knew beforehand. I have to be responsible for my own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would I like to be better? There’s a greedy part of me that says I would. I believe there are people and Americans who need health care a lot more than I do because ultimately the bottom line is I can afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My concern is for people who can’t afford it. And that’s where I have to ask: Does there come a time when government has to get involved and at what levels? But when you are distrustful of the system it makes it difficult. I ping pong on this all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes back down to accountability. Our parents used to be responsible for us. Now parents blame everybody else. I think a lot of it has to do with education. We spend a lot of time educating people about sex, abstinence. The problem is we don’t educate people about insurance. It’s never talked about until people are in their 30s, 40s. So I think there’s a little bit of a wake-up call, saying this needs to get talked about soon. Knowing insurance and knowing your responsiblities are as important as telling kids about safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have eight children – seven daughters and one son – and my children knew about insurance by the time they graduated from high school. The system we have is sufficient if we have the information. Absolutely. It works. It really does work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do think companies have to be held accountable. They shouldn’t be allowed to cherrypick. Banks don’t let it happen in the private sector. If a company buys mortgage papers, they can’t buy all A paper. They have to buy the B,C, D paper in order to maintain their licenses. You could say if you want to operate in this community as a licensed health insurance, you must have a certain spread in your portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is kind of crazy. Is it irrationally crazy? No. To fix it, you have to get people to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t anticipate change. I don’t see it getting better…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Stern, age 66\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I own Joe Stern Water Conditioning. I only have two employees so the rates are pretty high. I offered it but they’ve elected not to take it. For myself, I’m on Medicare and I have a Medicare supplement through Kaiser. Before Medicare I had Kaiser, and I just paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I went on Medicare, I was paying $670 a month as a single person. And I consider that pretty high. And that was without dental or glasses. So I just paid my dental out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought it was pretty brutal but I was still against Obamacare by far. Because I saw how they did it in the middle of the night. It was just not how you do a radical change like that. You do it slowly so you don’t make mistakes. You study it. But you don’t say we’re going to find out what’s in it after we pass it, like Nancy Pelosi said. That was unbelievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything. So I think that’s terrible. The only reason they’re doing it is cause they can’t pay for it any other way and it’s just a horrible bill in every way. There’s nothing good about it. It doesn’t even insure more people like they promised. And by the way, I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that the cost has doubled from what they predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Congress is not qualified to make a law like that. When have they ever done any big change that came out good economically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think about Medicare?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Laughs) Well, yes, but it looks like we’ve got trouble coming up…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m glad on I’m Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid…\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I think we should always have a safety net for people, and I always thought we did. Why did we need this big cumbersome program that no one really likes except the most liberal people? Or people who just like Obama no matter what…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we have a safety net in the United States. When they were trying to get the health care bill passed, Obamacare, they said we’ve got 60 million uninsured. A lot of that may not be true. A lot of the uninsured don’t want insurance, like young people. They don’t think they need it. And a lot of people are qualified, for Medi-Cal for instance, and they just haven’t gone out and gotten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know of anyone that was left on the street to bleed to death. Unless they were some drunk. I don’t know anyone who was really left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is it important that everyone have health insurance? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. It’s important that everybody who wants it should get it competitively.\u003cbr>\nI think you get competition by… you don’t have the state lines when it comes to coverage, put it out to bid, use economies of scale to get it competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mandates? No. I’m a capitalist. I’m a free-market guy. I’m not for government control. Or anything government does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad I’m on Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid. And I’m glad I’m on it, it’s a good plan. Social security is a good plan, but where was that money? It wasn’t invested properly. Government that governs best governs the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. It’s only fair. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe a little bit. I am a compassionate person. At least I’m trying to be. I don’t want anyone suffering, and I love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still I just don’t think that works very well. It costs way too much. A lot of people just milk the system. If everything were free, then every time you go to a hospital, an aspirin would go up to $17. People would be going there all the time. People would be hanging out at the emergency room. That’s how I see it. Welfare Cadillac. That’s what I’m worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to really qualify the needy people who do get government assistance. They need to make sure they qualify… not all addicted to drugs, buying drugs, not been on welfare for generations, driving Cadillacs… then I’m all for it. But it wouldn’t be no 60 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try not to follow things too closely… I was guilty of watching Fox news and hanging on to every word for awhile. Nah, why should I just be miserable?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>ObamaCare is absolutely horrible, horrible, horrible. It should be struck down immediately and I hope the Supreme Court does it. It’s just terrible. The way they did it, in the middle of the night, promised it would be on CSPAN, he lied… Reid, Pelosi, pathetic… Romney has a good chance of beating Obama But as a Republican in California, I don’t get a say in the presidential election. Around campaign time, I write letters…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you know many people who are uninsured? My daughter is on Medi-Cal; she’s getting ready to gradate; we didn’t have to pass ObamaCare for her…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Westover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a self employed artist-businesswoman… I make purses and luggage and I sell them at street fairs and art and wine festivals. I’ve been divorced for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was married I had insurance through my husband. Since we got divorced, I was self employed, I just couldn’t afford it. I couldn’t afford the premiums. I was flying by the seat of my pants every inch of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve only been the doctor or hospital on an emergency basis so I just have to take care of myself. I haven’t been getting regular pap smears, mammograms. I won’t qualify for Medicare for awhile…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I registered as a Republican, but I’m really going to vote the candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t make people who don’t have money buy health insurance, because they can’t afford it. It will just break them. It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What about the subsidies that people will get to help people buy it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? No, never heard of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If people knew more, would that shift their position on the law? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s really daunting. For my job, I make money three-quarters of the year and when I don’t do shows, I have no income. People who have families, I don’t know how they could fit one more thing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about applying for Medi-Cal, but I have a ROTH IRA, and I think you have to exhaust that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving toward a government subsidy is not a bad idea; it’s worked in other countries, but I don’t know if it’s going to work here because our country is too big and we’re in debt. I don’t know what the answer is. I’m just hanging on by the seat of my pants and hoping I stay healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What would you like the Supreme Court to do?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, it sounds like a good idea that they uphold it. I’m sure that if the Supreme Court sees that its going to work and it can be implemented, I think that’s probably the right thing to do. And it’s not going to take place immediately. I don’t know if it will ever impact me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, insurance right now is just too daunting. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 169px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/mirkarimi2postsentencemar192.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-60288\" title=\"mirkarimi2postsentencemar19\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/mirkarimi2postsentencemar192-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi after his Mar 19 sentencing (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city's Ethics Commission is expected to begin hearings on the suspension and possible removal of Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, submitted by Mayor Ed Lee, next month. The proceedings will not only be open to public comment but they'll also be televised, you'll be happy to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will use the proceedings to decide whether to pass the case on to the Board of Supervisors, who will then determine whether to oust the sheriff from office. But that will only happen if nine of 11 supervisors vote for removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges against Mirkarimi stem from his pleading guilty to charges of false imprisonment connected to a New Year's Eve fight with his wife, Eliana Lopez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both University of San Francisco political science professor Corey Cook and Golden Gate University Law School Professor Peter Keane, frequent observers of the city's political scene, say an amended city charter has made it much easier for Mayor Ed Lee to bring misconduct charges against Mirkarimi, as its definition of \"wrongful behavior\" is now broad. The applicable section reads...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Official misconduct means any wrongful behavior by a public officer in relation to the duties of his or her office, willful in its character, including any failure, refusal or neglect of an officer to perform any duty enjoined on him or her by law, or conduct that falls below the standard of decency, good faith and right action impliedly required of all public officers and including any violation of a specific conflict of interest or governmental ethics law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When any City law provides that a violation of the law constitutes or is deemed official misconduct, the conduct is covered by this definition and may subject the person to discipline and/or removal from office.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Keane says such a liberal definition of misconduct will not work to Mirkarimi's advantage in trying to defend himself. \"I think Mirkarimi will have a tough time trying to narrow that down, in terms of a defense that his activities did not constitute official misconduct,\" he said on KQED Public Radio's Forum show this week.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Cook and Keane say gray areas in the process remain, despite the charter amendment. \"It's not certain to me in reading the charter that the ethics commission will be required to vote on the matter, or whether a positive vote is necessary for this to go to the board of supervisors,\" Cook told KQED's Cy Musiker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first thing that has to be done by the Ethics Commission is to determine what their procedures will be,\" said Keane. \"The last time this was done, in 1976, it was under a totally different set of rules. That's when Airport Commissioner Joe Mazzola was removed by Mayor George Moscone. It was run just like a trial and it turned out to be a circus. I think the commissioners will try to set some sort of procedures so it doesn't deteriorate into something like that. If the committee wants to really cut to the chase and avoid a lot of proceedings, what they could do is put in evidence the record of conviction for false imprisonment that Mirkarimi pled guilty to and make a finding that the plea in itself amounts to the kind of conduct that falls below the standards of 'decency and good faith and right action.' That would be a quick and easy procedure in going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2009/05/commission-members.html\">five commissioners\u003c/a> on the board are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Beverly Hayon, Commissioner, appointed by the mayor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Benedict Hur, Chair, appointed by the assessor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dorothy Liu, Commissioner, appointed by the board of supervisors\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paul Renne, Commissioner, appointed by the district attorney\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jamienne Studley, Vice Chair, appointed by the city attorney\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>After the commission holds a hearing, it's required to make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. The supes, said Cook, will be in a difficult position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mirkarimi has a lot of political and personal allies on the board. This will pose a challenge to other progressives like Mirkarimi, who is the only progressive citywide elected leader. They'll be under a lot of pressure from constituents who are both angered by the charges and others who want to keep him around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a no-win politically. The allegations are very strong and disturbing to anyone who lives in the city. It's hard for progressives on the board to try to defend that behavior. Do they try to make the argument that these don’t rise to the standard of official misconduct? And how much political capital are they willing to expend?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane agrees the circumstances surrounding the case will not help the now-suspended sheriff. \"San Francisco is a place that has tremendous consciousness and sympathy toward victims of domestic abuse, as opposed to maybe some other areas of the country where it's seen as a family or private matter. The empathy for domestic violence victims has been part of the furor that has resulted in Mirkarimi's being brought to where he is now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook thinks Mirkarimi's former colleagues will try to avoid a moment of truth. \"There will be a lot of pressure on Mirkarimi to resign so it doesn’t come to a vote,\" he said. \"There are a lot of folks who want to avoid relitigating this in the public eye. I think there are a lot of details that will be embarrassing for the city let alone for Mirkarimi.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the case against Mirkarimi, getting to nine votes on the board may be a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be a challenge,\" said Cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's going to be difficult,\" said Keane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, as Melissa Griffin \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/03/mirkarimi-s-problems-may-affect-progressives\">writes in the Examiner\u003c/a> today, \"progressive supervisors John Avalos, David Campos, David Chiu, Eric Mar and Christina Olague will each be defending their seats this November.\" Anti-domestic violence advocates have made it clear time and again they intend on seeing the Mirkarimi case through to what they feel should be a natural conclusion of his removal from office; they're sure to put the pressure on those up for reelection as the process moves forward. And in what can't be a good sign for Mirkarimi, former supervisor, fellow prog, and Democratic County Central Committee Chair Aaron Peskin called on him to resign this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/cbs-5-poll-sf-wants-mirkarimi-out-as-sheriff/\">KCBS poll\u003c/a> released Wednesday found that 72 percent of respondents think Mirkarimi should resign, and 67 percent think he should be removed if he won't go voluntarily. When those figures were cited by a reporter to Mirkarimi at a Q&A this week, he said, \"I haven't really had a chance to tell my story...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He may get his chance -- in official proceedings -- soon.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Cook and Keane say gray areas in the process remain, despite the charter amendment. \"It's not certain to me in reading the charter that the ethics commission will be required to vote on the matter, or whether a positive vote is necessary for this to go to the board of supervisors,\" Cook told KQED's Cy Musiker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first thing that has to be done by the Ethics Commission is to determine what their procedures will be,\" said Keane. \"The last time this was done, in 1976, it was under a totally different set of rules. That's when Airport Commissioner Joe Mazzola was removed by Mayor George Moscone. It was run just like a trial and it turned out to be a circus. I think the commissioners will try to set some sort of procedures so it doesn't deteriorate into something like that. If the committee wants to really cut to the chase and avoid a lot of proceedings, what they could do is put in evidence the record of conviction for false imprisonment that Mirkarimi pled guilty to and make a finding that the plea in itself amounts to the kind of conduct that falls below the standards of 'decency and good faith and right action.' That would be a quick and easy procedure in going forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2009/05/commission-members.html\">five commissioners\u003c/a> on the board are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Beverly Hayon, Commissioner, appointed by the mayor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Benedict Hur, Chair, appointed by the assessor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Dorothy Liu, Commissioner, appointed by the board of supervisors\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paul Renne, Commissioner, appointed by the district attorney\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Jamienne Studley, Vice Chair, appointed by the city attorney\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>After the commission holds a hearing, it's required to make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. The supes, said Cook, will be in a difficult position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mirkarimi has a lot of political and personal allies on the board. This will pose a challenge to other progressives like Mirkarimi, who is the only progressive citywide elected leader. They'll be under a lot of pressure from constituents who are both angered by the charges and others who want to keep him around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a no-win politically. The allegations are very strong and disturbing to anyone who lives in the city. It's hard for progressives on the board to try to defend that behavior. Do they try to make the argument that these don’t rise to the standard of official misconduct? And how much political capital are they willing to expend?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane agrees the circumstances surrounding the case will not help the now-suspended sheriff. \"San Francisco is a place that has tremendous consciousness and sympathy toward victims of domestic abuse, as opposed to maybe some other areas of the country where it's seen as a family or private matter. 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(Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5:01 p.m.\u003c/strong>Mayor Ed Lee announced at a press conference Tuesday afternoon that he will serve Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi with misconduct charges Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has chosen not to resign and now I must act,\" said Lee. \"As public officials our first responsibility must always be to fulfill the obligations entrusted to us by the people of San Francisco, and we must always be held to the highest ethical and legal standards. Sheriff Mirkarimi's actions and confession of guilt clearly falls below these standards of decency and good faith rightly required of all public officials.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official misconduct charges force an investigation by the city's Ethics Commission, and the sheriff's immediate suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference Lee appointed Vicki Hennessy as interim sheriff. 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In any case, nine out of 11 Supervisors would have to vote to oust Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:31 p.m.\u003c/strong> At a press conference Mirkarimi announced that he will not resign: \"I believe that I am still very able to be the sheriff of San Francisco and at this time I do not plan to resign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi said that his behavior does not constitute \"official misconduct,\" and that he looks forward to making his case before the city's Ethics Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel that we're even more prepared,\" said Mirkarimi. \"I look forward to that process, because if you keep in mind, I still have never told our story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:40 p.m.\u003c/strong> Mirkarimi's lawyer Lidia Stiglich told the AP that he will not resign. Mirkarimi will make a statement in 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 1:03 p.m.\u003c/strong> The clock is ticking on Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/20/live-eliana-lopezs-attorney-speaks/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>Mirkarimi coverage on Twitter\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Chronicle and other news orgs are reporting that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/20/BAKP1NNI9F.DTL&tsp=1\">Mayor Ed Lee has given Mirkarimi until \u003cdel datetime=\"2012-03-20T20:56:29+00:00\">4 p.m.\u003c/del> to resign\u003c/a> (Update: Rachel Gordon at the Chron \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/20/BAKP1NNI9F.DTL&tsp=1\">now says 5 p.m.\u003c/a>) or face an official misconduct charge resulting in an immediate suspension. That could be followed by an attempt to remove him from office through a tortured city administrative process applicable to accused ethics violators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KCBS's Doug Sovern is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/SovernNation/status/182194867169009664\">tweeting\u003c/a> that Mirkarimi will respond \"shortly\" to the mayor's ultimatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier today, all San Francisco hell broke loose as Mikarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, no-showed at her scheduled presser, with her attorney Paula Canny speaking in her place just as news of Lee's ultimatum was breaking all around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canny said the reason her client didn't show was because of the \"disconcerting nature\" of an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/20/ivory-madisons-husband-calls-for-mirkarimi-to-resign-in-scathing-editorial/\">editorial\u003c/a> that appeared in the Chronicle today by Abraham Mertens, Ivory Madison's husband. In the piece, Mertens accused Lopez of illegal conduct in the form of Lopez's trying to get her to destroy evidence. Canny says Lopez denies those accusations and has retained an additional attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canny said she herself has retained an attorney as well. She said she has received a cease and desist letter from Madison's lawyers asking for Canny to retract the arguments she made in court asserting that communications between Lopez and Madison were subject to attorney-client privilege, motions that were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canny also questioned the legality under which Lee can invoke the city administrative process to have Mirkarimi removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is expected to make an announcement about all -- or some -- of this in the late afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:20 p.m.\u003c/strong> This \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2012/03/ross_mirkarimi_ultimatum.php\">analysis by SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi\u003c/a> says Mirkarimi shouldn't count on support from fellow progressives should he decide to duke it out with Lee:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Our messages for the sheriff have not yet been returned. But if he's looking for support from progressive stalwarts, he's not going to get it. Former Board President and current county Democratic Party chairman Aaron Peskin refused to comment on Mirkarimi's plight. But he did say that if the sheriff didn't resign by end of business today Peskin would be putting out a statement on the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It stands to reason that this statement would be a call for Mirkarimi to cut his losses and step aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Weekly contacted several city progressive movers and shakers. None felt Mirkarimi would be doing anyone any good by sticking around. He's not helping himself, and he's not helping progressives. If Supervisors Eric Mar, John Avalos, and David Campos were politically unambitious or termed out, that'd be one thing. 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