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The article's deck reads this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco’s ex-mayor Willie Brown has pioneered a new way to control a city without breaking a sweat—or running for office, or getting elected, or disclosing his clients, or making anyone particularly mad.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the piece:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown...is possibly more powerful and certainly less controversial now than when he held public office. The ethics and criminal investigations that dogged his entire political career (no charges were ever filed) have been largely forgotten...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is now a private attorney under no obligation to disclose the identity of his clients or his interactions with the legion of public officials and others who owe their careers to him. (The most promising of these may be California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Brown’s onetime girlfriend.) Brown operates in a post-partisan, post-paper trail world in which he reaps the benefits of power while bearing none of the unpleasant culpability or scrutiny that typically comes with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no scandal here. Brown helped create the system that allows him to flourish now. And he plays that system like a born musician who rarely if ever hits a wrong note...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie Brown’s power springs from his web of relationships and his intricate and strategic understanding, cultivated over six decades, of how politics in San Francisco and California is played.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong words, but not such a surprise to those who remember Brown, now 78, for his 15 years running roughshod over opponents as Speaker of the California Assembly, then his two terms as San Francisco mayor. The original Slick Willie, Brown's mastery of Assembly rules combined with a street fighter's will to win resulted in political victories that have now passed into \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-08/news/mn-6560_1_willie-brown\">political lore\u003c/a>. Brown made a habit, for instance, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/electoral-50653-states-bill.html\">stopping the Assembly clock before midnight\u003c/a> at the end of a legislative session so bills could continue to be passed. And in 1994, when it seemed certain his speakership would come to an end along with the Democrats' majority, he pulled a big fat rabbit out of one of his \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24137_1_willie-brown\">fashionable hats\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">coaxing one independent and one disgruntled Republican to switch sides\u003c/a>, cutting a deal with GOP Assemblywoman Doris Allen that resulted in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-06/news/mn-9978_1_speaker-emeritus\">her election as a sort of puppet Speaker\u003c/a> (she was soon recalled by angry GOP voters), with Brown receiving the title \"Speaker emeritus.\" After the coup, Brown lorded it over his nemesis, GOP Assembly Leader Jim Brulte, as reported in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Mr. Brulte, he hasn't hit the wall. He still thinks he can win the speakership,\" Brown said, clearly delighted at the recent turn of events. \"Apparently, the month of promising the world that he was going to be Speaker raised the level of expectations among Republicans so much so that they are irrational. . . . They really thought their time had come and when it became apparent their time had not come, they became really angry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the surface [he appears] to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\n--The California Report's Scott Shafer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the enactment of term limits, Brown moved on to become mayor of San Francisco, promptly setting off a war with city progressives over his pro-development agenda, as well as drawing scrutiny for his particular brand of insider politics. From a 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/THE-MAYOR-S-LEGACY-WILLIE-BROWN-Da-Mayor-2832960.php\">Chronicle retrospective piece\u003c/a> on Brown's mayoral legacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown's controversial pro-development policies turned traditional blue- collar neighborhoods into yuppie enclaves with pricey loft developments, setting off a political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his tenure, he was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism in the awarding of city jobs and contracts. Even though FBI investigations never unearthed any wrongdoing by Brown, wary voters approved several measures to limit the mayor's powers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After being termed out of the mayor's job, Brown continued to wield influence, furthering Gavin Newsom's political career by appointing him to the Board of Supervisors, then pulling a technocrat named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">Ed Lee out of the chorus of obscure municipal officials\u003c/a> to become a star as interim mayor of San Francisco when Newsom won election as Lieutenant Governor. Lee had a sort of avuncular, anti-charisma that played palatably after the Brown and Newsom years, and the two of them, along with \u003ca>string-puller-in-arms Rose Pak\u003c/a>, somehow managed to squeeze him past a progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors that included anti-Lee diehard Chris Daly, who famously called Lee's accession the \"\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/01/interim_mayor_selected.php\">biggest fumble in the history of progressive politics\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's promise to not seek the job permanently was a big factor among some supervisors who helped install him, and who had mayoral aspirations of their own. Later, of course, Lee pulled the Big Switcheroo, reportedly under pressure from Brown, running for and handily winning a term as mayor. And while Lee's mayoral opponents \u003ca>tried to make his relationship with his benefactor a major issue\u003c/a> during the campaign, the public yawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I asked two observers of the San Francisco political scene, Scott Shafer and Corey Cook, to assess Brown's influence on what goes on in the city today. Shafer, a reporter and host for The California Report, is also a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/01/what-are-politicians-really-like-scott-shafer-our-own-ex-insider-illuminates/\">former insider\u003c/a> who worked for Art Agnos and Gray Davis. Cook teaches political science at USF and has been an elections analyst for KQED. Both agreed that Willie is still a force to be reckoned with. Says Shafer: \"There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\" And from Cook: \"I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\" When I asked Cook if Ed Lee was a mayor who is simply simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown, or if he's actually carrying out a specific Brown agenda, Cook said, \"I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interviews\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Scott Shafer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what are your thoughts on Willie Brown's influence over the political system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED'S SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown holds a unique place in California and San Francisco political history, and in fact currently. He's part Herb Caen, part Boss Tweed, part Wizard of Oz. He's someone who has always understood power, wielded power, and loved power. So eight years after leaving office, he still has an enormous amount of influence not just in San Francisco but in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the ear of a lot of people, he has a knack for collecting chits and knowing when to spend them and how to spend them and doing it in a way that on the surface makes him appear to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering. There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: He wields influence, but he has not broken any laws, at least that we know of...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown never breaks the law. He knows where the line is, and he may walk right up to it and he may even kind of look over it, but he rarely crosses it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I interviewed Willie Brown before he left office, he laughingly said one of his greatest accomplishments was not getting indicted. He was joking. But in the legislature when he was speaker, there were people all around him that had FBI wires, legislators that were investigated, some that were in the middle of scandal. Willie's rarely been in the middle of a scandal, but he's often at the periphery of it, at least publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's shown an uncanny ability to develop relationships with people in a way that accumulates power for him, and then he uses that power in ways that are not obviously apparent. A lot of things happen because of Willie Brown, but he doesn't really leave fingerprints. And by that I don't mean to suggest at all that everything he's doing is illegal. But he's just very smart about strategy and power and politics and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So he knows where the levers are...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Oh, He owns the levers. He is a political Houdini. There was a time in the legislature when the republicans actually had a majority, and he managed to maintain his speakership. He is a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> During the Newsom years, how influential was Brown, and how much was Newsom a creature of Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown gave Gavin Newsom his first political appointment, then put him on the Board of Supervisors, and then endorsed him for mayor and campaigned for him. And while I think Gavin Newsom publicly tried and perhaps privately tried to distance himself from Willie brown once he became mayor, and to deliberately be more transparent in his dealings than Willie Brown was, there's no question Willie Brown maintained a close relationship and a very probably influential relationship with Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> How do you think Ed lee has done regarding his relationship with Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's incumbent on the mayor to distinguish himself from Brown and Pak. I don't know the things he's done that were strongly opposed by Brown and Pak, and just because Pak makes a lot of noise publicly, it doesn't mean she really cares. The same is true of Willie Brown. These are two of the shrewdest political operators in the state, and so they know that sometimes it's beneficial to Ed lee to have them campaign and criticise him publicly; that can be helpful to their guy. They're not above doing that to help him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Now here's my interview with Corey Cook\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So how powerful is Willie Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>USF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't see the way it works today as a political machine in the classic sense; it's a different animal than that. Historically, oftentimes the power of the machine wasn't the mayor, it was the informal power of the boss. In some cities, the mayor and the boss were one and the same, like in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's not a patronage machine in the same way, but certainly what he's been able to do is leverage the informal power that he has, which is considerable. It's partly term limits and it's partly the incapacity of local government generally, but there's a clear vacuum in terms of having a leadership structure, and Willie Brown remains one of the great strategic thinkers of his generation, and he remains super well- connected in the public and private sectors, so he's uniquely capable of filling the role he does. And that's being facilitated by the weakness of our institutional actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of talk right now that whether you like Willie and his politics or not, there's a clear sense that this is a return in many ways to the Willie Brown era. There's a tech bubble emerging, increasing pressures like a housing crisis and gentrification in the Mission district...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years or so, this fight between the progressives and moderates has splintered into the fight over things like the plastic bag ban and the Happy Meal ban and ranked-choice voting and a variety of other issues. But the big fights right now are over development, the same fights that were around when Willie was mayor. And he's in a unique position to build a pro-development coalition. The power he brings is around how do you get these big deals done, which is his expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's the Warriors stadium or the 8 Washington project or other big deals on the horizon, it takes these extra-institutional players to play a role, and there's a re-emergence of interest in this Willie Brown machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your view is that the city needs to be able to get these big projects done, then Willie Brown becomes an essential power broker. If your perspective is this is going to drive up housing prices and gentrify neighborhoods and fundamentally change the character of the city, then your perspective is oh my gosh, Willie Brown. Progressives are certainly concerned; they don't read the Washington Monthly piece through a positive lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Willie was mayor, his mayoralty spawned this progressive revolt that resulted in a super-majority of the Board of Supervisors being progressive. The Newsom term was these two big ideological camps – progressives and moderates – fighting over land use, which was really a response to Willie's time as mayor. At the end of the Newsom term, there was a stalemate where things sort of got blocked generally. The progressives didn't do well in the 2010 election, and then Ed Lee was elected, sort of this consensus mayor, and right now progressives are on their heels again saying this looks an awful lot like the dotcom boom and the politics of the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks who like these development politics are saying thank goodness Willie's back. Because he's able to break that gridlock that Newsom was never able to break through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How much of an extension of Willie Brown is Ed lee? Is Lee just a mayor that's simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown when he was mayor, or is he tied up with Brown and carrying out Brown's agenda?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer. I think that was the question when Ed lee got in the race. I thought the best argument against Ed Lee – the one criticism that sort of stung him – was a quote from City Attorney Dennis Herrera, where he said I'm worried about him being his own man, basically. That Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, and now he's being compelled to run. So who's' compelling him? That was potentially the most biting criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does Mayor Lee think the Twitter tax break was a good idea and so did Willie, and there's a commonality? Or is the mayor just carrying the water? I don't know. That's the question that people have had since he was the interim. And that's always the tough question when you talk about these things. It's hard sorting out cause and effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my sense is that Ed Lee has changed his style the last couple of months. He's gone from being more consensus-based, and Willie's encouraged that in his column. So Ed Lee's style has changed, but on substantive issues it's tough to judge. He hasn't done anything so far that he didn't say he'd do in the campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong words, but not such a surprise to those who remember Brown, now 78, for his 15 years running roughshod over opponents as Speaker of the California Assembly, then his two terms as San Francisco mayor. The original Slick Willie, Brown's mastery of Assembly rules combined with a street fighter's will to win resulted in political victories that have now passed into \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-08/news/mn-6560_1_willie-brown\">political lore\u003c/a>. Brown made a habit, for instance, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/electoral-50653-states-bill.html\">stopping the Assembly clock before midnight\u003c/a> at the end of a legislative session so bills could continue to be passed. And in 1994, when it seemed certain his speakership would come to an end along with the Democrats' majority, he pulled a big fat rabbit out of one of his \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-13/news/mn-24137_1_willie-brown\">fashionable hats\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">coaxing one independent and one disgruntled Republican to switch sides\u003c/a>, cutting a deal with GOP Assemblywoman Doris Allen that resulted in \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-06/news/mn-9978_1_speaker-emeritus\">her election as a sort of puppet Speaker\u003c/a> (she was soon recalled by angry GOP voters), with Brown receiving the title \"Speaker emeritus.\" After the coup, Brown lorded it over his nemesis, GOP Assembly Leader Jim Brulte, as reported in the \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-16/news/mn-9556_1_willie-brown\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Mr. Brulte, he hasn't hit the wall. He still thinks he can win the speakership,\" Brown said, clearly delighted at the recent turn of events. \"Apparently, the month of promising the world that he was going to be Speaker raised the level of expectations among Republicans so much so that they are irrational. . . . They really thought their time had come and when it became apparent their time had not come, they became really angry.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the surface [he appears] to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\n--The California Report's Scott Shafer\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After the enactment of term limits, Brown moved on to become mayor of San Francisco, promptly setting off a war with city progressives over his pro-development agenda, as well as drawing scrutiny for his particular brand of insider politics. From a 2004 \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/THE-MAYOR-S-LEGACY-WILLIE-BROWN-Da-Mayor-2832960.php\">Chronicle retrospective piece\u003c/a> on Brown's mayoral legacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Brown's controversial pro-development policies turned traditional blue- collar neighborhoods into yuppie enclaves with pricey loft developments, setting off a political backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout his tenure, he was dogged by allegations of corruption and cronyism in the awarding of city jobs and contracts. Even though FBI investigations never unearthed any wrongdoing by Brown, wary voters approved several measures to limit the mayor's powers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After being termed out of the mayor's job, Brown continued to wield influence, furthering Gavin Newsom's political career by appointing him to the Board of Supervisors, then pulling a technocrat named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/edlee-vs-willie-brown/\">Ed Lee out of the chorus of obscure municipal officials\u003c/a> to become a star as interim mayor of San Francisco when Newsom won election as Lieutenant Governor. Lee had a sort of avuncular, anti-charisma that played palatably after the Brown and Newsom years, and the two of them, along with \u003ca>string-puller-in-arms Rose Pak\u003c/a>, somehow managed to squeeze him past a progressive bloc on the Board of Supervisors that included anti-Lee diehard Chris Daly, who famously called Lee's accession the \"\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/01/interim_mayor_selected.php\">biggest fumble in the history of progressive politics\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's promise to not seek the job permanently was a big factor among some supervisors who helped install him, and who had mayoral aspirations of their own. Later, of course, Lee pulled the Big Switcheroo, reportedly under pressure from Brown, running for and handily winning a term as mayor. And while Lee's mayoral opponents \u003ca>tried to make his relationship with his benefactor a major issue\u003c/a> during the campaign, the public yawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I asked two observers of the San Francisco political scene, Scott Shafer and Corey Cook, to assess Brown's influence on what goes on in the city today. Shafer, a reporter and host for The California Report, is also a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/06/01/what-are-politicians-really-like-scott-shafer-our-own-ex-insider-illuminates/\">former insider\u003c/a> who worked for Art Agnos and Gray Davis. Cook teaches political science at USF and has been an elections analyst for KQED. Both agreed that Willie is still a force to be reckoned with. Says Shafer: \"There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\" And from Cook: \"I don't have any hesitance to say that he's exceptionally powerful, still.\" When I asked Cook if Ed Lee was a mayor who is simply simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown, or if he's actually carrying out a specific Brown agenda, Cook said, \"I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"interviews\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, Scott Shafer...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So what are your thoughts on Willie Brown's influence over the political system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED'S SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown holds a unique place in California and San Francisco political history, and in fact currently. He's part Herb Caen, part Boss Tweed, part Wizard of Oz. He's someone who has always understood power, wielded power, and loved power. So eight years after leaving office, he still has an enormous amount of influence not just in San Francisco but in California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the ear of a lot of people, he has a knack for collecting chits and knowing when to spend them and how to spend them and doing it in a way that on the surface makes him appear to be sort of a lovable scoundrel. But if one were to look carefully at his maneuverings, it may be less flattering. There's no question he wields an enormous amount of influence to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: He wields influence, but he has not broken any laws, at least that we know of...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown never breaks the law. He knows where the line is, and he may walk right up to it and he may even kind of look over it, but he rarely crosses it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I interviewed Willie Brown before he left office, he laughingly said one of his greatest accomplishments was not getting indicted. He was joking. But in the legislature when he was speaker, there were people all around him that had FBI wires, legislators that were investigated, some that were in the middle of scandal. Willie's rarely been in the middle of a scandal, but he's often at the periphery of it, at least publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's shown an uncanny ability to develop relationships with people in a way that accumulates power for him, and then he uses that power in ways that are not obviously apparent. A lot of things happen because of Willie Brown, but he doesn't really leave fingerprints. And by that I don't mean to suggest at all that everything he's doing is illegal. But he's just very smart about strategy and power and politics and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: So he knows where the levers are...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Oh, He owns the levers. He is a political Houdini. There was a time in the legislature when the republicans actually had a majority, and he managed to maintain his speakership. He is a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> During the Newsom years, how influential was Brown, and how much was Newsom a creature of Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT SHAFER\u003c/strong>: Willie Brown gave Gavin Newsom his first political appointment, then put him on the Board of Supervisors, and then endorsed him for mayor and campaigned for him. And while I think Gavin Newsom publicly tried and perhaps privately tried to distance himself from Willie brown once he became mayor, and to deliberately be more transparent in his dealings than Willie Brown was, there's no question Willie Brown maintained a close relationship and a very probably influential relationship with Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong> How do you think Ed lee has done regarding his relationship with Brown?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's incumbent on the mayor to distinguish himself from Brown and Pak. I don't know the things he's done that were strongly opposed by Brown and Pak, and just because Pak makes a lot of noise publicly, it doesn't mean she really cares. The same is true of Willie Brown. These are two of the shrewdest political operators in the state, and so they know that sometimes it's beneficial to Ed lee to have them campaign and criticise him publicly; that can be helpful to their guy. They're not above doing that to help him.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It's partly term limits and it's partly the incapacity of local government generally, but there's a clear vacuum in terms of having a leadership structure, and Willie Brown remains one of the great strategic thinkers of his generation, and he remains super well- connected in the public and private sectors, so he's uniquely capable of filling the role he does. And that's being facilitated by the weakness of our institutional actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a lot of talk right now that whether you like Willie and his politics or not, there's a clear sense that this is a return in many ways to the Willie Brown era. There's a tech bubble emerging, increasing pressures like a housing crisis and gentrification in the Mission district...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight years or so, this fight between the progressives and moderates has splintered into the fight over things like the plastic bag ban and the Happy Meal ban and ranked-choice voting and a variety of other issues. But the big fights right now are over development, the same fights that were around when Willie was mayor. And he's in a unique position to build a pro-development coalition. The power he brings is around how do you get these big deals done, which is his expertise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether it's the Warriors stadium or the 8 Washington project or other big deals on the horizon, it takes these extra-institutional players to play a role, and there's a re-emergence of interest in this Willie Brown machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your view is that the city needs to be able to get these big projects done, then Willie Brown becomes an essential power broker. If your perspective is this is going to drive up housing prices and gentrify neighborhoods and fundamentally change the character of the city, then your perspective is oh my gosh, Willie Brown. Progressives are certainly concerned; they don't read the Washington Monthly piece through a positive lens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Willie was mayor, his mayoralty spawned this progressive revolt that resulted in a super-majority of the Board of Supervisors being progressive. The Newsom term was these two big ideological camps – progressives and moderates – fighting over land use, which was really a response to Willie's time as mayor. At the end of the Newsom term, there was a stalemate where things sort of got blocked generally. The progressives didn't do well in the 2010 election, and then Ed Lee was elected, sort of this consensus mayor, and right now progressives are on their heels again saying this looks an awful lot like the dotcom boom and the politics of the 90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks who like these development politics are saying thank goodness Willie's back. Because he's able to break that gridlock that Newsom was never able to break through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JON BROOKS\u003c/strong>: How much of an extension of Willie Brown is Ed lee? Is Lee just a mayor that's simpatico with the priorities of Willie Brown when he was mayor, or is he tied up with Brown and carrying out Brown's agenda?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>COREY COOK\u003c/strong>: I think that is \u003cem>the\u003c/em> question in San Francisco today. And only a couple of people actually know the answer. I think that was the question when Ed lee got in the race. I thought the best argument against Ed Lee – the one criticism that sort of stung him – was a quote from City Attorney Dennis Herrera, where he said I'm worried about him being his own man, basically. That Ed Lee said he wasn't interested in running, and now he's being compelled to run. So who's' compelling him? That was potentially the most biting criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So does Mayor Lee think the Twitter tax break was a good idea and so did Willie, and there's a commonality? Or is the mayor just carrying the water? I don't know. That's the question that people have had since he was the interim. And that's always the tough question when you talk about these things. It's hard sorting out cause and effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But my sense is that Ed Lee has changed his style the last couple of months. He's gone from being more consensus-based, and Willie's encouraged that in his column. So Ed Lee's style has changed, but on substantive issues it's tough to judge. He hasn't done anything so far that he didn't say he'd do in the campaign.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71026\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 261px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/148963978.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-71026\" title=\"Gunman Kills 12 at Screening of The Dark Knight Rises\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/148963978-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"173\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside Century 16 movie theater where a gunmen attacked movie goers during an early morning screening of the new Batman movie (Thomas Cooper/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gun Control advocates say last week’s mass shooting in a crowded Colorado movie theater proves the United States needs strict new gun laws. But the gun rights community counters that if someone in the theater had been armed, the shooter may have been stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact is, if there were a concealed-carry holder in that theater with a 45-caliber handgun and a well-placed shot, that attack could have been stopped as soon as it began,\" director of federal affairs for \u003ca href=\"http://gunowners.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Gun Owners of America\u003c/a> John Velleco told \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201207231000\" target=\"_blank\">Forum host Michael Krasny\u003c/a> this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all want to be safe,\" Velleco continued. \"The question is, what makes us safe? Will restricting the gun rights of the law-abiding? Will banning so-called assault weapons? Will that makes us any safer? Will closing the so-called gun show loop hole make us any safer? Or are those things just an illusion of safety?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we've learned... is that the increase in prevalence of gun ownership and gun use in public is associated with increases--and not decreases--in violence,\" responded Garen Wintemute, director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/vprp/\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Prevention Research Program\u003c/a> at UC Davis.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wintemute told Krasny people need to speak up and demand legislators pass gun control laws, and stop blaming the NRA and the gun lobby. He said most people in the United States--even gun owners--believe that buyers should be background checked, and that those convicted of violent misdemeanors should not be allowed to buy guns. \"Gun policy in the United States represents the interest of a small group of radicals,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senator Dianne Feinstein is one of several politicians to come forward in the wake of the shooting to voice support of stricter gun laws. She appeared on \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/2012/07/22/feinstein-johnson-debate-stricter-gun-control-netanyahu-dangerous-times-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News today\u003c/a> to promote an assault weapons ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Weapons of war don't belong on the streets,\" Feinstein said. \"I have no problem with people being licensed and buying a firearm. But these are weapons that you are only going to be using to kill people in close combat. That's the purpose of that weapon.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71193\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/Delta_042312_JoshC_8324.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-71193\" title=\"Delta_042312_JoshC_8324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/Delta_042312_JoshC_8324-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Governor Jerry Brown and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar are expected to announce a multi-billion dollar plan designed to fix California’s longstanding water war in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their proposal for a 35-mile water tunnel is set to reignite the fight over how water is exported from the Delta. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/elianalopez.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-54661\" title=\"elianalopez\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/01/elianalopez-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eliana Lopez at a hearing (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11:50 am:\u003c/strong> After more than six months of separation, suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi had his restraining order lifted this morning in San Francisco Superior Court to allow him to reunite with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong> (Bay City News) The wife of suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi testified at the city's Ethics Commission tonight that while her husband did cause a bruise on her arm, he did not try to cover up the incident after the fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=141&clip_id=15614\">7/18 Lopez testimony\u003c/a> (starts at 3:43:30).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=141&clip_id=15626\">7/19 Lopez testimony\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission is conducting an inquiry into whether Mirkarimi should be permanently removed from office after Mayor Ed Lee suspended him in March following the sheriff's conviction on a misdemeanor false imprisonment charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to the charge in connection with a Dec. 31 incident in which he grabbed the arm of his wife, Eliana Lopez, during an argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez returned to the U.S. from her native Venezuela, where she has been since March, to testify in front of the commission at City Hall. She began her testimony on Wednesday and completed it today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez has expressed support for her husband, and under questioning from Deputy City Attorney Peter Keith, who is representing the mayor, she acknowledged Mirkarimi bruised her arm when he grabbed her, but did not go so far as to call it an injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not a doctor, it was a bruise,\" she said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She later said she bruises easily, even sometimes while playing with the couple's young son, Theo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 1, she told a neighbor, Ivory Madison, about the incident and made a 40-second video tearfully talking about it. Madison called police three days later to report the case over the objections of Lopez, who said she just wanted to go to couples therapy with her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi served for seven years on the city's Board of Supervisors before being elected sheriff in November, and the city attorney's office has alleged that Mirkarimi used the power of his office to try to dissuade Madison or other witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Lopez denied that, saying Mirkarimi was mostly just despondent after learning that an investigation was under way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He didn't want to answer the phone, he was completely demoralized,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalled telling Mirkarimi, \"You are supervisor and just became sheriff. Do something,\" but said, \"He said no, he cannot do anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez's testimony was often rambling and at one point drew an audible sigh from Keith, the deputy city attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel the same way, don't worry,\" Lopez retorted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following her testimony, Lopez spoke briefly to reporters outside the hearing room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was great to see Ross, and I just can't wait until we're together,\" she said. \"I'm looking forward to the day when I'm going to be just the sheriff's wife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez and Mirkarimi will both be in court at the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Friday morning to try to modify a protective order barring contact between the two since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez's attorney Paula Canny said she will seek to have \"peaceful contact\" allowed between the couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Lopez's testimony, the Ethics Commission also ruled that it will not issue subpoenas for four people that Mirkarimi's attorneys have said could prove that Mayor Lee lied under oath when he testified in front of the commission on June 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\"It is time for Sheriff Mirkarimi to stop creating baseless sideshows, and accept responsibility for his actions and for his official misconduct,\" said Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The attorneys were seeking subpoenas for Supervisor Christina Olague, city Building Inspection Commissioner Debra Walker, former Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and construction company owner Walter Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee testified that he had not consulted with any supervisors about Mirkarimi before suspending him. But Walker has told reporters that Olague told her that Lee discussed the issue with her prior to the suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee also testified that he had not offered Mirkarimi a job via an intermediary in return for his resignation from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peskin has told reporters that a third party, Wong, asked him to offer Mirkarimi a job on the mayor's behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's attorney David Waggoner said, \"If the charging officer lies under oath, what does that say about this entire proceeding?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Sherri Kaiser called the issue \"an invitation to a sideshow\" and encouraged the commissioners to disregard it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission chair Benedict Hur agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not diminishing in any way the seriousness of a perjury allegation... but it's a matter for the (district attorney), not something for us to decide,\" Hur said. \"The issue is too collateral to merit additional testimony.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor issued a statement following the commission's ruling, saying they \"made the right decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said, \"It is time for Sheriff Mirkarimi to stop creating baseless sideshows, and accept responsibility for his actions and for his official misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will return to the case on Aug. 16 when the attorneys will make closing arguments. Hur said the commission plans to make their decision that day on what to recommend to the Board of Supervisors, who will ultimately decide whether to oust Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine of the 11 supervisors would have to uphold the charges to remove him from office.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"//www.accjc.org/\">Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges\u003c/a> put City College of San Francisco on notice \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/City-College-of-San-Francisco-on-brink-of-closure-3682955.php\">Tuesday\u003c/a> that it has eight months to address 14 serious management and fiscal problems or be decertified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools must be accredited to receive public funding. In June, school trustees \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/education/2012/06/grim-ccsf-budget-prepares-worst\">approved\u003c/a> a $187 million 2012-13 budget to serve the school's more than 90,000 students. About $97 million of that amount comes from the state and would be withdrawn if the school lost accreditation. If the governor's tax measure fails in November, the school could be out another $10 million. Trustees also voted to place a $79 per parcel tax on the city's November ballot, but even if approved, those funds would not be available this year. City College will not pass a final budget until September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the school must prove to the commission by Oct. 15 that it should retain its accreditation. Then commission representatives will visit the school to monitor progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the loss of accreditation would likely cause San Francisco City College to close, during the 'show cause' period the College must make preparations for closure,\" said Barbara Beno, the commission president in a letter to City College of San Francisco Interim Chancellor Pamela Fisher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the college has seen reduced funding in recent years, Beno said all schools in the state have faced similar problems, yet only two of the state's 112 community colleges are in similar situations: College of the Redwoods in Eureka and Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. Compton College closed in 2005 after it lost accreditation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/05/why-the-city-college-of-san-francisco-might-close/#letter\">written response to the commission\u003c/a>, Fisher said the school is \"fully aware of the seriousness of the situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The report shows that clear, difficult choices must be made, immediately, and at anumber of levels. The ultimate responsibility rests with the Trustees, administration,faculty and staff to reinvent City College so that it can continue to achieve its important mission, but in a more cost-effective and efficient way,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the commission's main concerns is City College's lack of a permanent funding base. Salaries and benefits account for 92 percent of general fund spending, leaving only eight percent for all other operations and maintenance. 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"content": "\u003cp>(AP) SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee says he would find it \"extremely difficult\" to work with suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi if Mirkarimi is able to get his job back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee made the remarks Friday while testifying before the city's Ethics Commission. The five-member panel has convened a trial-like hearing to determine whether to recommend Mirkarimi's removal from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee cited Mirkarimi with misconduct and suspended him without pay in March, shortly after the sheriff pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment for bruising his wife's arm during a New Year's Eve dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee testified that he suspended Mirkarimi because of the significance of the role of sheriff as one of the top law enforcement positions in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city attorney grilled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi on Friday about his conversations with his wife and campaign manager days after he bruised his wife's arm in an alleged domestic violence incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Mirkarimi's second day testifying before the city's ethics commission, which is weighing his fitness for office. The panel also began hearing from Mayor Ed Lee, who suspended Mirkarimi without pay in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials allege that the sheriff directed his wife, Eliana Lopez, and campaign manager, Linnette Peralta Haynes, to dissuade a neighbor from talking about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighbor, Ivory Madison, had recorded a video of a tearful Lopez discussing the alleged abuse. She later turned the video over to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi, under questioning from Deputy City Attorney Peter Keith, said Friday that he remembered telling his wife after learning police were investigating the incident that she'd have to follow through with the process and couldn't \"unring the bell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's woes began on the afternoon of Dec. 31 when he and his wife became involved in an argument over whether she could travel to her native Venezuela with their 3-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi admitted bruising her arm with an overly firm grip. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment, and other misdemeanor charges were dropped. Mirkarimi was sentenced to probation and counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff told the commission that in hindsight he wishes that he had a better strategy to deal with the media and subsequent fallout from his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was an overwhelming event and continued to be an overwhelming event in the way I was branded,\" Mirkarimi said. \"I was sad, humiliated. I lost my family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission adjourned the hearing soon after Lee began testifying. Police had received a threat to City Hall, said Susan Fahey, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee resumed testifying a short time later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the first time the five-member ethics panel has convened a trial-like hearing to determine whether an elected official should be removed from office. It will forward its recommendation to the Board of Supervisors, which needs the votes of nine of 11 members to remove Mirkarimi. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous posts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is back on after about an hour delay due to an unspecified security threat. Mayor Ed Lee has finished testifying, and San Diego Police Chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=crime&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22William+Lansdowne%22\">William Lansdowne\u003c/a>, \"who has served as an expert witness on dozens of cases involving police management and policy,\" according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-Ethics-Commission-hearing-on-Mirkarimi-begins-3646606.php\">Chronicle\u003c/a>, is now on the stand. In a nutshell, he thinks Mirkarimi should be ousted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>Watch live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Josh_Richman/status/218826442119725058\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Josh_Richman/status/218805625889624064\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2\u003c/strong>: The hearing was abruptly adjourned, in the middle of a question to Ed Lee, by Chairman Benedict Hur. Pretty odd...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Mirkarimi has finished testifying before the Ethics Commission. Ed Lee is now testifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area News Group's Josh Richman is covering the hearing, and you can \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_20971200/live-blog-ross-mirkarimi-testimony-june-29-at\">read his tweets in chronological order here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nIf you really, \u003cem>really\u003c/em> want to...and God knows, you may not...here's the link to \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">watch Ross Mirkarimi's testimony before the Ethics Commission\u003c/a> today\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area News Group journalist Josh Richman is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_20971200/live-blog-ross-mirkarimi-testimony-june-29-at\">live-blogging here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ed Lee, who filed the charge against Mirkarimi, is scheduled to testify later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questioning of Mirkarimi this morning centers on phone calls and \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/06/21/text-messages-between-mirkarimi-wife-and-campaign-aide-released/\">text messages\u003c/a> among himself, Lopez and his campaign manager, Linette Peralta Haynes. Lee's misconduct charge \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/06/03/did-ross-mirkarimi-text-campaign-manager-to-intervene/\">alleges Mirkarimi and Peralta Haynes conspired to dissuade Lopez and Madison\u003c/a> from reporting the violent episode to police. The mayor is seeking to remove Mirkarimi from office permanently. The ethics panel will forward a recommendation on that to the Board of Supervisors, which must vote unanimously for removal if the sheriff is to lose his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the complete set of Mirkarimi ethics panel videos -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2011/12/ethics-commission-meeting-recordings.html\">here you go\u003c/a>. This includes \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=141&clip_id=15418\">yesterday's hearing\u003c/a>, at which the suspended San Francisco sheriff attempted to defend himself . From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-asks-for-redemption-at-ethics-panel-3672111.php\">Chronicle's report on that session\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi testified Thursday that he committed a violent act against his wife, and that such conduct falls below official standards of his staff and reflects adversely on the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also told the city's Ethics Commission that he believes in the power of redemption, as he fights to save his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the sheriff is the leader of the department and should lead by example, and if that also means that the sheriff can demonstrate redeeming behavior, then the sheriff, I think, or some of their employees, may have that possibility, too,\" Mirkarimi testified under oath at his official misconduct hearing. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-asks-for-redemption-at-ethics-panel-3672111.php\">Full article\u003c/a> \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_20971200/politics-government/ci_20969028\">Josh Richman's take\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Embattled Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi began his calm, controlled, somewhat contrite testimony Thursday night before the city's Ethics Commission, which will recommend whether or not he should be kicked out of office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I grabbed my wife's arm and bruised it, that is an act of violence, something I regret terribly,\" Mirkarimi said. \"It wasn't my intention, but I did it and I accept full responsibility. ... I reacted intensely to a quarrel and I regret the way that I reacted.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The mayor's misconduct filing stems from, as you no doubt have heard by now, Mirkarimi's guilty plea to a misdemeanor false imprisonment charge in connection with a heated fight he had with his wife, Eliana Lopez, on New Year's Eve, not long after he had won election as sheriff. Mirkarimi bruised her arm during the conflict, an injury both he and Lopez say occurred in their car. Mirkarimi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">described the incident on KQED Public Radio's Forum\u003c/a> program on April 18:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So as she was getting out of her passenger seat to unharness our son, who is nearly three, he was panicked, you could see the panic, and she was screaming and I reached over from the driver's seat - still with my seatbelt on, to put my hand underneath her arm to try to guide her back into the passenger seat so we could just de-escalate this and talk this through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was when I put my hand underneath her arm that she got bruised, in that process. I was instinctively just inserting myself because I saw my wife upset in a way I hadn't seen her upset, my son was just...\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>However, Ivory Madison, Mirkarimi and Lopez's neighbor who at Lopez's request recorded a short video of Lopez displaying her bruise, said in written testimony that Lopez told her she had been subjected to physical abuse by Mirkarimi over a longer period of time that night. From a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-case-Key-witness-disputes-account-3639787.php\">Chronicle report\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Eliana told me that the verbal abuse continued in the house and escalated to physical abuse, and that both went on for some time. ... 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