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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63388\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 231px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/Eskender.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63388 \" title=\"EskenderAseged\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/Eskender-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Eskender Aseged reviews bread toasted for tonight's crimini mushroom crostini in his swank new kitchen at Bayview's Radio Kitchen & Africa. (Credit: KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://radioafricakitchen.com/\">Radio Africa & Kitchen\u003c/a> is one of a growing list of city- supported food businesses on Third Street in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. It’s all part of a calculated redevelopment strategy to drive foodies to this long neglected corner of Southeast San Francisco. Yes, there is plenty of the mouthwatering BBQ and Soul Food you’d expect to find, but Bayview has a lot more to offer now, including at least three places to get a latte. (Is it just me, or is that a key indicator of foodie culture?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to our Bayview. Welcome to Third and Oakdale,” said Mayor Ed Lee at a recent press conference for the restaurant’s launch. Most restaurant openings \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> feature the local mayor, but the people packing this party were mostly city officials. Because San Francisco is this project’s biggest backer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=213502483863484932538.0004be5c8180af16486ed&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.734442,-122.389412&spn=0.020364,0.019269&z=15&source=embed\">\u003cstrong>Bayview food map\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/26/bayview-foodie-crawl-can-you-handle-the-deliciousness-2/#recipe\">\u003cstrong>Recipe: Mushroom Wot Crostini with Mustard Greens, Berbere and Parmesan Cheese\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Radio Africa & Kitchen’s chef, Ethiopian-born Eskender Aseged, has served “pop up” dinners at one venue after another over the last eight years. His approach is heavily influenced by his experience at the now-defunct Square One, one of the first restaurants to take classic recipes from the Mediterranean and reinterpret them for the California palate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take any country from all over Africa, specifically Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal or Nigeria, and then we sort of\u003cem> \u003c/em>bring on the fresher, more straightforward focus and cleaner taste,” says Aseged. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You won’t find \u003cem>fried\u003c/em> food at Radio Africa. Or ketchup. Or hot sauce. Aseged uses what he likes to call the power of Ethiopian spice mixes, like Berbere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a combination of sweet, spicy and aromatic. That is to say, birdseye chili, which can be substitute for cayenne chili, sweet paprika. We got cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, fenugreek, basil, shallot, ginger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I explained in a report for \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201204260833\">KQED News\u003c/a>, Aseged couldn’t afford to launch a brick and mortar restaurant on his own, but he could put down about 35 grand. The city, through a variety of agencies, brought roughly $710,000 to the table and built the restaurant from scratch. It’s a street-level commercial anchor to a new condo complex .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months in, Aseged is still in a state of shock over his good fortune. This is a man used to making dinner for about 100 people off of two hot plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have 12 burners, a grill, griddle, \u003cem>salamander\u003c/em>, two ovens. It’s kind of like, overkill over here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aseged is expected to source some of his labor locally. The restaurant is serving dinner now, but soon it will open for lunch, featuring a new crop of young line cooks. They’re being trained nearby at the non-profit Old Skool Café, which works with troubled youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the five-year-old Muni T has made this stretch of Third easily accessible, the street intimidates pedestrians, much like Geary and mid-Market do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t feel walkable,” says Andrea Baker, a consultant for San Francisco’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development. “And therein lies the difficulty. Because small businesses tend to rely on foot traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While sipping a large cappuccino from the Road House Coffee Company at Third and Thomas, Baker says the city might help launch a \u003cem>bakery\u003c/em> next – or something Indian. (These days, there are more Asian Americans in Bayview than African Americans.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is it government’s job? Why isn’t it, I would say!” She laughs. “In our system, people pay taxes in the hope that if we all put a little something into it we can create big things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty years ago, Bayview became a code word for urban decay and gang violence. A lot of people have not reassessed, despite the arrival of gourmet pizza, outdoor concerts, and a new library under construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, it’s not just me saying it. I think if you talk to community leaders, they’re seeing a renaissance here,” Captain Paul Chignell says. He’s the SFPD’s commanding officer for Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not that the area is crime \u003cem>free\u003c/em>. There are lots of beat police in evidence day and night along the corridor. But Bayview still struggles to get the big crowds other crime-plagued neighborhoods in San Francisco enjoy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy Cohen runs Neighborhood Business Development for the city. “It’s very challenging to get people to come here,” she says. “That’s honestly the power of restaurants in this town. We really feel like people will go anywhere for a good meal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Radio Africa & Kitchen is bustling/busy on a recent Friday night, its an expensive bet, perhaps the last of its kind after the state put the kaibosh on local redevelopment funds. But Chef Eskender Aseged brings with him a loyal clientele willing to give him — and Bayview — a chance to impress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re game to go on a foodie crawl in Bayview, here’s a Google Map to get you started:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=213502483863484932538.0004be5c8180af16486ed&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.734442,-122.389412&spn=0.020364,0.019269&z=15&output=embed\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"580\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nView \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=213502483863484932538.0004be5c8180af16486ed&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.734442,-122.389412&spn=0.020364,0.019269&z=15&source=embed\">Bayview Foodie Crawl\u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chef Aseged has graciously shared his recipe for \u003cstrong>Mushroom Wot Crostini with Mustard Greens, Berbere and Parmesan Cheese\u003c/strong>. As you can tell from the ingredient list, he’s used to cooking for a crowd. Adjust accordingly for your intended audience:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>-1 lb shitake mushroom sliced\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 lb crimini mushroom sliced\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 Tbs minced garlic\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 Tbs chopped parsley\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 Tbs chopped shallots\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-2 Tbs olive oil\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 tsp berbere \u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 tsp sherry vinegar\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-1 bunch of mustard greens, chopped\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-Salt and pepper\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Directions\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bake crostini in a 350-degree oven for about 5-7 minutes or until lightly browned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saute shallots and garlic in olive oil on medium heat for 3 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook for about 15 minutes on medium low, stirring often. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63365\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/IMG_4737.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63365\" title=\"IMG_4737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/IMG_4737-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Merchants Exchange Building in downtown San Francisco during the annual Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. (Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Mercantile Building in downtown San Francisco during the annual Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. (Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maybe 500 people turned out — our reporters’ best estimate — for today’s protest targeting the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting in San Francisco. Protesters were calling for a moratorium on all foreclosures, as well as principal reductions on mortgages for homes whose values have dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marching from Justin Herman Plaza, protesters arrived at the Merchants Exchange Building in time for the 1 p.m. meeting, with about 16 actually infiltrating and disrupting the proceedings before being escorted out. SFPD says 24 people total were arrested inside the meeting and on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our updates throughout the day, including reporter Aarti Shahani’s accounts of what went on inside the meeting…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6:47 p.m.\u003c/strong> Cy Musiker today interviewed Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, about what he thinks Wells Fargo’s obligations are considering the bank bailout, and whether the company has done enough for its customers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson said that the bank benefited greatly from the bailout and that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One would expect in response to that, the ethical argument would be, they ought to do whatever they can to soften the blow on those individuals who got these mortgages and went into foreclosure or got these mortgages and are suffering from the continuing stream of payments. There is clearly a bad record on the part of the banks in dealing with rewriting these mortgages, in marking down the total amounts that are owed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo may have a marginally better record than Bank of America, which is often presented as the worst behavior in terms of managing this, but nonetheless they benefited greatly during the recession from the government steps to keep the banks whole, their executives are still paid very high salaries, and I think there’s a reasonable expectation that they would have done more to help those normal citizens, middle class, who suffered during the recession.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> After the meeting today, Shahani interviewed Oscar Suris, Wells Fargo’s Executive Vice President for Corporate Communications. Edited transcript…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>AARTI SHAHANI, KQED: This meeting ended quickly, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OSCAR SURIS, WELLS FARGO: It ended according to the rules of the proceeding and the agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: [Wells CEO] John Stumpf was saying it was a little unusual for it to go so quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SURIS: I don’t know I would call it unusual. I just think that the company has a good story and there’s a high attendance of shareholders who are in support of the company’s performance, so it’s probably more a reflection of that than anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: There was quite a bit of disruption during the meeting. What do you make of that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SURIS: Shareholder meetings are in part an opportunity to have a dialogue. And we cetainly invited the opportunity…but we also wanted to conduct a meeting that would respect and honor all the participants and would also be in keeping with the rules of the meeting. We had some participants who wanted to not abide by those rules, and they interjected in a disruptive manner, and given our heightened focus on security today, we felt the best thing to do was escort them out of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Some protesters said they were put into a spillover room and intentionally filtered out of the main room, even though they’re shareholders. Do you have a response to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SURIS: Our focus from the very beginning has been to conduct this meeting according to the rules and also with a focus on keeping it as safe as possible for all of the meeting’s participants. We believe we had an obligation to do that and that was an obligation supported by the San Francisco Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But clearly we wanted to have all points of view in the room, all points of view were represented. But again, with a maximum capacity of 275 people, and protesters outside numbering more than 500, we weren’t going to be able to have everybody in here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SHAHANI: Do you think that the criticism of Wells Fargo around foreclosures is fair?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SURIS: We think the characterization that we are not committed to helping this housing market get on its feet again are unfair…We have a very deep commitment both to the housing market and to consumers in it who are our customers. As our chairman and CEO John Stumpf said today, we are conducting two mortgage modifications for every one we foreclose on…That’s allowed us to modify mortgages for more than 740,000 homeowners since Jan 2009…We’ve forgiven more than $4 billion dollars of mortgage principal since Jan 2009.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63376\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Interfaith members protest at Justin Herman Plaza before marching to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. (Don Clyde/KQED)\" title=\"6965008212_65b5dd28cd_b\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63376\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interfaith members protest at Justin Herman Plaza before marching to the Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, minister Gloria Castillo, Vicar of El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Church in the San Francisco Mission district, said today that Wells Fargo refused her three requests for a loan modification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After banking with Wells Fargo for decades, and having a great credit score, I asked them three times for a loan modification so I could stay in my home. And Wells Fargo refused,” she said. “Today, I stand here to pray, not only for those individually affected, but also for the congregations and communities that collaborate, feel the pain of this unethical practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester Wallace Hill of Oakland told KQED’s Lisa Pickoff-White that his house went to auction in February after Wells Fargo denied him a loan modification as well. Now, he waits for the sheriff to evict him and his tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want is the basics: food, a roof over our head and a place for our kids to be. That’s all we want,” Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/24/MN881O8BCL.DTL&tsp=1\">Chronicle\u003c/a> paints this picture of the proceedings today inside the shareholders meeting, the target of today’s Wells Fargo protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The shareholders meeting was held in a room that has eight chandeliers hanging from an ornately carved wooden ceiling. It seats 250, and the seats were full by 12:15 p.m., meaning no more shareholders could come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get into the room, participants went through at least three layers of security, which included showing proof of shareholder status and a walk through a metal detector.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:50 p.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Mina Kim reports the following arrest numbers, per SFPD:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>14 arrested inside the Merchants Exchange Building and six outside, some for trespassing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Four arrested by Sheriff’s Department for resisting arrest\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Aarti Shahani, reporting for KQED, was inside the shareholders meeting that was the target of today’s protest. She reported the following…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2:02 p.m.\u003c/strong> The meeting has ended. CEO and employees remark that it was exceptionally fast. No one had any questions. CEO John Stumpf says ‘that’s a first!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolution 7 to conduct internal investigation into foreclosure practices voted down. Only 6% vote in favor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:29 p.m.\u003c/strong> Over a dozen stand up and chant ‘mic check’ repeatedly. Woman says ‘Wells Fargo, \u003ca href=\"http://cjjc.org/news/62-actions/214-boycott-launched-against-wells-fargo-july-1-action\">stop investing in private prisons and immigrant detention\u003c/a>.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All are escorted out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/24/wells-fargo-protest-san-francisco/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>Tweets from local journalists\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23wf24\">\u003cstrong>#wf24\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.stopwellsfargo.com/en/live\">\u003cstrong>Live web streams\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com//photos/kqedradio/sets/72157629527141178/show/\">\u003cstrong>Slideshow\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:25 p.m.\u003c/strong> Wells CEO Stumpf: ‘2011 all in all was a terrific year for the company.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protester: ‘Not a terrific year for all the families foreclosed on by Wells Fargo.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO: ‘You’re out of order ma’am.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is escorted out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:20 p.m.\u003c/strong> 2nd protester inside meeting interrupts to condemn Wells Fargo’s private prison investments. She’s escorted out. CEO continues with agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:15 p.m.\u003c/strong> Seconds into CEO John Stumpf’s intro remarks, a man got up and shouted ‘point of order! point of order!…the 99% bailed out Wells fargo with its tax dollars.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers escort him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf continues: ‘People are hurting. They’re upset. And we understand that…’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nActivists are hoping to attract two thousand people from at least ten states to San Francisco today to protest Wells Fargo at the bank’s annual shareholder meeting. Marching from Justin Herman Plaza, protesters will arrive at the California Merchant Exchange Building by noon. “Some people will be ready for arrest if the CEO does not come down and listen to the demands that are being put out by the Wells Fargo stakeholders,” said Robbie Clark of Oakland-based Causa Justa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters want a moratorium on all foreclosures, and principal reductions on mortgages for homes whose values have dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:48 a.m.\u003c/strong> Latest from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco police are guarding the entrance to the annual meeting of Wells Fargo shareholders in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of officers were stationed around the Financial District building where protesters associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement said they planned to crash the meeting that got underway Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bank stockholders were being asked to show certificates or other proof of ownership before being allowed past gates erected in front of the Merchants Exchange Building.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:35 a.m.\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com//photos/kqedradio/sets/72157629527141178/show/\">Photos\u003c/a> from today…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:15 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Don Clyde spoke this morning to Father Richard Smith of The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in the Mission. He’s with the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfop.org/\"> San Francisco Organizing Project\u003c/a>, a multifaith group that works on affordable housing and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here because, especially as people of faith, we are outraged that even at this stage of the game Wells Fargo has still not taken responsibility for the damages they’ve caused to millions of people across the country, millions of families,” he said, “including people right here in our city and in my own parish and community. This has got to stop. They’ve got to step up to the plate and assume responsibility. This is Ethics 101. It’s far too late in the day; there’s got to be a change now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11:00 a.m.\u003c/strong> KQED’s Don Clyde reports protesters at Justin Herman Plaza have started to march. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63365\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/IMG_4737.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63365\" title=\"IMG_4737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/IMG_4737-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Merchants Exchange Building in downtown San Francisco during the annual Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. (Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of protesters surrounded the Mercantile Building in downtown San Francisco during the annual Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. 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SFPD says 24 people total were arrested inside the meeting and on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our updates throughout the day, including reporter Aarti Shahani’s accounts of what went on inside the meeting…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6:47 p.m.\u003c/strong> Cy Musiker today interviewed Kirk Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, about what he thinks Wells Fargo’s obligations are considering the bank bailout, and whether the company has done enough for its customers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanson said that the bank benefited greatly from the bailout and that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>One would expect in response to that, the ethical argument would be, they ought to do whatever they can to soften the blow on those individuals who got these mortgages and went into foreclosure or got these mortgages and are suffering from the continuing stream of payments. There is clearly a bad record on the part of the banks in dealing with rewriting these mortgages, in marking down the total amounts that are owed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo may have a marginally better record than Bank of America, which is often presented as the worst behavior in terms of managing this, but nonetheless they benefited greatly during the recession from the government steps to keep the banks whole, their executives are still paid very high salaries, and I think there’s a reasonable expectation that they would have done more to help those normal citizens, middle class, who suffered during the recession.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> After the meeting today, Shahani interviewed Oscar Suris, Wells Fargo’s Executive Vice President for Corporate Communications. 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CEO John Stumpf says ‘that’s a first!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resolution 7 to conduct internal investigation into foreclosure practices voted down. Only 6% vote in favor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1:29 p.m.\u003c/strong> Over a dozen stand up and chant ‘mic check’ repeatedly. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Apr 24\u003c/strong> \u003cem>From KQED News\u003c/em>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63209\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 271px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirarkimiethicshearing-apr23mina.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-63209\" title=\"mirarkimiethicshearing apr23mina\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirarkimiethicshearing-apr23mina-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi at Monday's Ethics Commission hearing (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It could be months before the San Francisco Ethics Commission makes a recommendation on whether suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi should keep his job. KQED’s Mina Kim reports last night's initial hearing was all about process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commission Chair Benedict Hur said it would likely take until late May for the five-member commission to decidee whether to include live witness testimony in the proceedings,\" Kim says. In the meantime, Hur directed the city to submit its legal brief first, followed by one from Mirkarimi's lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=142&clip_id=14920\">\u003cstrong>Watch video replay of Ethics Commission hearing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After listening to nearly two hours of procedural discussion, the public got its turn to speak. About 30 supporters of Mirkarimi lined up to voice their opposition to the suspension. Among the first to speak was self-described activist Ernestine Waters Weiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A man's life hangs in the balance and you should take it seriously,\" she said. \"And dismiss this completely because it's out of bounds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Fernandez introduced himself as a former San Francisco police officer and called the proceedings a political witchhunt. \"It's a waste of time, it's a waste of taxpayers' money, and it's ruining this man's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone who spoke was on Mirkarimi's side. Beverly Upton, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Consortium, said the commission's decision on Mirkarimi will have a far-reaching impact. \"The world is watching. My concern is that victims are watching, victims who cannot come out of their homes and talk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will make a recommendation, but only a super-majority on the Board of Supervisors has the power to remove Mirkarimi from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Monday's post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nToday at 4:30 p.m. -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2009/05/commission-members.html\">San Francisco Ethics Commission\u003c/a> hearing of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>Watch the hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/23/ross-mirkarimi-ethics-hearing-live-430-p-m/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>KQED Twitter coverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That's the one where they discuss misconduct charges brought against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirakimi by Mayor Ed Lee. Lee pulled the trigger on the filing after Mirkarimi pled guilty to a misdemeanor False Imprisonment charge stemming from the now-famous domestic dispute with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor is seeking to have Mirkarimi -- sworn in as sheriff in January, suspended in March -- permanently removed from his position for official misconduct under Section 15.105 of the city charter. That states...\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>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nToday's hearing opener is probably not going to provide a surfeit of human drama. From the Ethics Board's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2012/04/agenda-april-23-2012.html\">agenda\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will confer on procedural issues regarding charges pending against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will hold a hearing on this date to establish the process, parameters and protocol for the hearing required under the Charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commissioners will provide an opportunity for the attorney(s) of the Mayor and the attorney(s) of Sheriff Mirkarimi to identify their concerns regarding procedure and scheduling. There will be opportunity for public comment on this item. (Discussion and possible action.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After that, things may or may not heat up. From the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/MNM21O6T5D.DTL&tsp=1\"> Chronicle's look-ahead\u003c/a> today...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rather than a courtroom-style trial before the five commission members - which could involve witnesses, exhibits, cross-examination and surprise testimony - the tentative plan for the hearing calls for a series of written legal briefs from the city and Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing would be a slow-motion affair, with the city's opening brief, along with its evidence in the case, due a week after Monday's hearing. Mirkarimi's response, with his own evidence, would come two weeks later and the city's reply a week after that. One suggested option would cut the timeline by a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all the briefs had been filed and read, the commission would hear oral arguments from the attorneys, discussing whether live witnesses would need to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Live testimony may not be necessary,\" [Commission Executive Director John] St. Croix's letter said, but if it is, potential witnesses \"should indicate all weekdays on which they have an unavoidable conflict within the next 90 days.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/MNM21O6T5D.DTL&tsp=1\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After its proceedings are done, the Ethics Board is required to forward the case to the Board of Supervisors with a recommendation. At that point, the supes will take up the case, with nine of 11 board members in favor of removal required for Mirkarimi to lose his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how likely is that? Last month, both University of San Francisco political science professor Corey Cook and Golden Gate University Law School Professor Peter Keane told us that obtaining such a super-majority could be a tall order. But both also agreed that the supes will be in a difficult position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mirkarimi has a lot of political and personal allies on the board,\" Cook told KQED's Cy Musiker. \"This will pose a challenge to other progressives...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... 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 agreed the circumstances surrounding the case will not help Mirkarimi. \"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,\" he said on KQED Public Radio's \"Forum\" show. \"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>Since those interviews, Mirkarimi has gone public in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">emotional account of what he says transpired during the incident with his wife\u003c/a>. San Francisco Attorney George Gascon, whose office prosecuted the case, responded yesterday in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">scathing interview\u003c/a> of his own, in which he repeatedly referred to the suspended sheriff as a \"criminal defendant\" who \"rationalized\" his behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How any of this has affected the political calculus...who knows? Here's an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2012/03/ground-rules-will-be-key-hearing-s-tone-and-outcome\">analysis on the ethics portion of the process\u003c/a>, from the Examiner last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"twitter\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nKQED's Mina Kim is tweeting live from the ethics board hearing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedro Fernandez introduced himself as a former San Francisco police officer and called the proceedings a political witchhunt. \"It's a waste of time, it's a waste of taxpayers' money, and it's ruining this man's life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone who spoke was on Mirkarimi's side. Beverly Upton, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Consortium, said the commission's decision on Mirkarimi will have a far-reaching impact. \"The world is watching. My concern is that victims are watching, victims who cannot come out of their homes and talk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will make a recommendation, but only a super-majority on the Board of Supervisors has the power to remove Mirkarimi from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Monday's post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nToday at 4:30 p.m. -- the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2009/05/commission-members.html\">San Francisco Ethics Commission\u003c/a> hearing of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>Watch the hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/23/ross-mirkarimi-ethics-hearing-live-430-p-m/#twitter\">\u003cstrong>KQED Twitter coverage\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That's the one where they discuss misconduct charges brought against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirakimi by Mayor Ed Lee. Lee pulled the trigger on the filing after Mirkarimi pled guilty to a misdemeanor False Imprisonment charge stemming from the now-famous domestic dispute with his wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mayor is seeking to have Mirkarimi -- sworn in as sheriff in January, suspended in March -- permanently removed from his position for official misconduct under Section 15.105 of the city charter. That states...\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>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nToday's hearing opener is probably not going to provide a surfeit of human drama. From the Ethics Board's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2012/04/agenda-april-23-2012.html\">agenda\u003c/a>...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will confer on procedural issues regarding charges pending against Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commission will hold a hearing on this date to establish the process, parameters and protocol for the hearing required under the Charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ethics Commissioners will provide an opportunity for the attorney(s) of the Mayor and the attorney(s) of Sheriff Mirkarimi to identify their concerns regarding procedure and scheduling. There will be opportunity for public comment on this item. (Discussion and possible action.)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After that, things may or may not heat up. From the\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/MNM21O6T5D.DTL&tsp=1\"> Chronicle's look-ahead\u003c/a> today...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Rather than a courtroom-style trial before the five commission members - which could involve witnesses, exhibits, cross-examination and surprise testimony - the tentative plan for the hearing calls for a series of written legal briefs from the city and Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing would be a slow-motion affair, with the city's opening brief, along with its evidence in the case, due a week after Monday's hearing. Mirkarimi's response, with his own evidence, would come two weeks later and the city's reply a week after that. One suggested option would cut the timeline by a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all the briefs had been filed and read, the commission would hear oral arguments from the attorneys, discussing whether live witnesses would need to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Live testimony may not be necessary,\" [Commission Executive Director John] St. Croix's letter said, but if it is, potential witnesses \"should indicate all weekdays on which they have an unavoidable conflict within the next 90 days.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/22/MNM21O6T5D.DTL&tsp=1\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>After its proceedings are done, the Ethics Board is required to forward the case to the Board of Supervisors with a recommendation. At that point, the supes will take up the case, with nine of 11 board members in favor of removal required for Mirkarimi to lose his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how likely is that? Last month, both University of San Francisco political science professor Corey Cook and Golden Gate University Law School Professor Peter Keane told us that obtaining such a super-majority could be a tall order. But both also agreed that the supes will be in a difficult position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mirkarimi has a lot of political and personal allies on the board,\" Cook told KQED's Cy Musiker. \"This will pose a challenge to other progressives...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... 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 agreed the circumstances surrounding the case will not help Mirkarimi. \"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,\" he said on KQED Public Radio's \"Forum\" show. \"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>Since those interviews, Mirkarimi has gone public in an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">emotional account of what he says transpired during the incident with his wife\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>(Bay City News) A judge today upheld his tentative ruling denying suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's bid to remove City Attorney Dennis Herrera from his suspension proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Judge Kahn on Friday will also consider a separate motion by Mirkarimi's attorneys to overturn his suspension.\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a brief hearing this morning in San Francisco Superior Court, Judge Harold Kahn denied the motion by Mirkarimi, 50, who was suspended last month by Mayor Ed Lee on official misconduct charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi is awaiting an administrative process that will determine whether he can keep his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge had tentatively ruled Wednesday in favor of the city attorney, who is representing the mayor in the suspension proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi, who was sentenced to three years' probation last month after pleading guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment for a Dec. 31 domestic violence incident involving his wife, was suspended without pay on March 21. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg title=\"More...\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has the right under the city charter to a hearing before the city's Ethics Commission on the misconduct charges. The commission would then make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors, which would need the approval of nine of the 11 board members to remove him from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi served on Board of Supervisors for seven years before being elected sheriff in November and being sworn in on Jan. 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp, Mirkarimi's attorneys for the suspension proceedings, had argued that the city attorney's office had a conflict of interest because it was representing the mayor and advising the Ethics Commission at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera's office responded with a filing earlier this week noting that the Ethics Commission announced it would retain outside counsel for the suspension proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahn this morning told Kopp that he considered the issue moot after the Ethics Commission retained the outside counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, I don't really understand your arguments,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kopp acknowledged outside of court that \"it would be a bold step for the judge to remove the city attorney from the case,\" but insisted that Herrera's office should have chosen to advise the Ethics Commission and allow the mayor to use outside counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They chose in favor of what looks like a very partisan prosecution of Sheriff Mirkarimi,\" he said. \"We think that's wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kahn on Friday will also consider a separate motion by Mirkarimi's attorneys to overturn his suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that to be considered official misconduct, the behavior in question must take place while the elected official is in office -- Mirkarimi's Dec. 31 incident occurred before he was sworn in as sheriff. They also allege that the definition of misconduct in the city charter is unconstitutionally vague.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kopp today called the suspension \"a gross overreaching by the mayor\" in his powers to remove an elected official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When this charter provision was enacted, it was never intended to apply to this type of conduct,\" he said. \"It's supposed to apply to conduct in office ... some sort of corruption or fraud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring any change prompted by the judge's ruling this Friday, the Ethics Commission is scheduled to hold its initial hearing on Mirkarimi's suspension on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicki Hennessy, a former chief deputy with the sheriff's department, is serving as interim sheriff while Mirkarimi's case moves forward.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62620\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 138px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar19.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62620\" title=\"mirkarimi2postsentencemar19\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar19-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Mirkarimi after his sentencing (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/#transcript\">Read a transcript of today’s interview with Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ross Mirkarimi appeared on KQED Public Radio’s Forum show this morning. In an emotional hour-long segment, Mirkarimi gave his account of the New Year’s Eve fight with his wife, Eliana Lopez, which led to his guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment, his suspension as sheriff by Mayor Ed Lee, and the current attempt by Lee to remove him permanently from office for official misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Ethics Commission is scheduled to hold a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfethics.org/ethics/2012/04/agenda-april-23-2012.html\">special meeting on Apr 23\u003c/a> to decide whether to recommend to the Board of Supervisors that the charges against Mirkarimi be sustained. Mirkarimi would be removed from office if 9 of 11 supervisors vote to do so. 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This has been quite a nightmare, an ordeal, and the story that I would have told Mayor Lee on more than one occasion in which I had offered, is frankly, a story that has been eating at me for nearly four months that I haven’t been able to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I believe my silence, and until recently my wife’s silence, had allowed this story to be narrated by a lot of innuendo, rumor, and distortion…\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I entered the office the second and last time with Mayor Ed Lee, there was very little preliminary discussion except just seconds where Mayor Lee simply told me that he has offered me an ultimatum to either resign or be suspended. The meeting would have ended right there if I did not ask him how he arrived at that decision and, again, offering him the details of the story of what happened and offering him the phone number of my wife so he could get an independent account by talking with her, since I had not seen Eliana or had contact with her since January 13th\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You were prohibited under court orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I am, and that’s been excruciating. But for the mayor, and anyone who is rendering a decision of this magnitude, I certainly had hoped he would take me up on the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this is about is that I made a terrible mistake on December 31st. It was at 11:45am. We were on our way to lunch from our house, in our van. We were on our way to Delfina’s Pizza on California and Fillmore, and a horrible quarrel had started between my wife and I.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What I did was turn our car around…against my wife’s wishes… which was the basis for the plea on false imprisonment.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It was a somewhat familiar subject, about an impending trip she was going to take to Venezuela. She’d taken one six months earlier where she and my son Theo had been away, out of the country for over two months. That was excruciating to be apart from my family, and we had agreed that there would be a plan because my wife, who hadn’t had her green card at that time, there had been some immigration issues, and my insistence that there be at least an agreement and a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the car on our way to lunch we began to argue about that, where I was seriously misrepresented, when I heard somewhere somebody said that I said I was powerful and you cant take my son away. That was a complete distortion. What I had been quoting was California law and how strong our laws are in California about parental rights. And that escalated in the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The characterization that she was, in essence, imprisoned in any kind of way is completely false.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So what I did was turn our car around, our minivan, our Dodge minivan, turned it around against my wife’s wishes. I decided not to go to lunch because I didn’t want us to be arguing in public about a very sensitive subject like that — and turn the car home, which incidentally was the basis for the plea on false imprisonment. It’s based on the fact that I turned the car around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: It sounds very innocuous, as opposed to what false imprisonment sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well I’ll leave the interpretation to anybody, but you’re right, the false imprisonment analysis that I’ve been hearing from people has just been excruciating to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the story is when I parked our car, I had already vented what I had to say, and so, it was off my chest and I had acted inappropriately. I swore at my wife in front of my son, I was angry that she wasn’t hearing me and I regret this terribly, but she was also extremely upset to a point where I had never seen her agitated before, in a way where it made my son extremely upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I was incredibly ashamed. I still am. I’m trying to muster the energy to tell the story but that’s why I’m here, because I owe the people an explanation\u003c/aside>\n\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>\n\u003cp>I thought I was being a father in a moment where I had not any premeditated thought. And I thought I was coming to – I was trying to remedy the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then goes into our house. There had been no incident outside, as what news reports had indicated, and when I just tried to decompress for a moment or two in the car, I took my seatbelt off, locked the car up, and proceeded to go in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door was locked, I knocked on the door. Eliana, with our son, unlocks the door and opens it. And the day, although strained, there was also no sequestering of my wife. She came and went as she pleased. There was no argument inside the house, there was nothing outside the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I think politics is involved? You cant deny it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The characterization that she was, in essence, imprisoned in any kind of way is completely false. There were stops at the grocery store or going to a local falafel restaurant for her, for me, alternating care of Theo that day, and on the next day as well. And she decided on the next morning to go see our neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she had informed me of, which was part of the quarrel in the car, on the late morning of December 31st, is that she had been seeing an attorney. and when I thought our conversation was about an extended stay in Venezuela, what I realized, not until the next morning, is that this was potentially a custody issue. Because it just hit me almost in an ambush kind of way is why is my wife seeing an attorney? And I had no idea who that attorney was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: The irony is that now she is in Venezuela, and she’s extended her stay in Venezuela, although, as you said, she published an article really talking about her love – it was a love letter to you and to your marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: It was a love letter and it’s the best thing I’ve received since January 13th, but you have to understand is her stay in Venezuela is something that I fully support, because to be suspended without pay, to try to break a person so that they can’t provide for their family…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Well her father is ill, too, isn’t he?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: He has cancer, and I want them to be protected and that also goes to part of why I was so concerned and stressing my concern to her during the argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s high-profile in her own right in Venezuela, in Caracas, I’d just been elected Sheriff, there had been some very high-profile stories of kidnappings of Americans in Venezuela and of other people. I’ve been in Caracas, in Venezuela a few times and I’ve seen what security conditions are like for people in the middle-class or even above. I felt that we were being lax in not having a conversation about her taking trips to Venezuela and not thinking through the kind of, well, maybe its paranoid, maybe not, but I was doing what I thought was the right thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: But the bruise, of course, became the center of focus here and it became the center of focus in large part because a former girlfriend came forward and said that you were rough with her and that exacerbated things, and so did your statement for which you apologized in which you also said that it was taken out of context about this being a private family matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I never said that this was a private family matter and there were so many distortions early on that that became the branding. And I have to say, you and I have talked on this program before on air as well as off and I’ve never really been that shy to the media. But the tsunami that had hit me and my family before I was even charged was so overwhelming that frankly I just shut down. It was a wipe-out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: And you were ashamed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">No incident like this has ever happened before.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I was incredibly ashamed. I still am. I’m trying to muster the energy to tell the story but that’s why I’m here, because I owe the people an explanation. I’ve been a public servant seven years, proudly, of an incredible organ of government in the board of supervisors, one of the greatest districts – District 5 – I think it was a great relationship what we had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I was elected Sheriff, much to the surprise of many when I was outspent by one of my chief rival by more than two-to-one, and that we won. And so I owe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s whats been eating at me, is that while silently and privately and through the mechanics of dealing with the legal and now political administrative process, it’s finally, sort of, mustering that reserve of telling that story that hasn’t been told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me ask you, though. I want to get back to the ex-girlfriend. I know you have something, perhaps, to say about that that might clarify because there were two girlfriends. One that came forward and said that he’s a good guy and gentle…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: In fact, that was from Evelyn Nieves, where we were in a relationship for seven years…she, who I hadn’t even talked to in a while, offered that herself, which was published in the New York Times Bay Citizen, but it was never, ever, captured in the local press…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: What was captured was the woman who came up from Los Angeles to testify…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Which I was looking forward to in the trial to really disspell. I thought it was a piling on, there was so much fabrication that had come up in this piling on that that in itself made me that much more motivated and looking forward to the trial because this piling on became so insurmountable that I had no choice but to look forward to a process, to either validate or to demystify what the truth was. And, quite frankly, allegations like that are things I take very seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Your wife said this is the second time this is happening and I tell Ross I want to work on this marriage, we need help. This is in the video that was released. Both of you feel at this point wanting to move forward and, well, make this marriage work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: My wife has been a champion, both here and abroad, 5,000 miles away in Venezuela in wanting to repair and rebuild our repair our relationship. And I thank God and thank the heavens that every night when I go to bed and pray to be a better man and wake up i the morning to hope to aspire to that change that’s what motivates. Because I believe that through an experience like this, to go through an ordeal like this, to be turned inside out for public dissection in the court of public opinion, I can only hope that I either just completely evaporate as a person or just better myself as a father, as a man, as a husband, as a sheriff…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Its all about restorative justice in a way, I suppose, is what you’ve been saying implicitly all along, which you’ve been a strong advocate of. But what does your wife mean when she says this is the second time this has happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: No incident like this has ever happened before. She is referring to a quarrel that has been familiar and intense – verbally – about the extended trips to Venezuela. There had been three, and it’s a personal matter where I failed, in the last trip that she had taken, to not go to counseling, when we both agreed that counseling was the right way to sort through our misunderstandings and differences…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: She kind of said in the article that you were not all that willing to go to counseling because you were caught up in the electioneering for Sheriff…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: True. I procrastinated. I didn’t put the priorities of my marriage and my family in a way I should have, and that culminated into what I think became an avoidable situation on December 31st.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be honest with you, as soon as this happened, before i was even charged, I immediately sought a therapist hoping, and not knowing that I was going to be charged, that we could begin couples counseling because the flag, obviously, was a 2 x 4 across my forehead, and yet, even though we tried unsuccessfully through the district attorney and the courts to go to couples counseling during this ordeal, where we had been rejected, I decided to use that therapist myself to go over some of these issues – issues I refer to in my statement, in my apology that I made after my plea…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You’ve also been doing anger management, haven’t you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, its part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Is it helpful?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Its incredibly humbling to be part of a larger caucus of men of all different ages, many who have committed very severe offenses, and not so severe. This provides a very rare perspective, whether I’m part of law enforcement, or sheriff, or not, it raises a lot of questions about how effective is our system in helping change behavior in a forward-thinking place like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Your wife says this is a political conspiracy. She said that publicly on a couple of occasions, in fact she called it a coup d’etat or golpe de estado. Do you agree?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: My wife is incredibly passionate. and the tonal quality of politics in Venezuela and Caracas is a bit different. But that’s what I love about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment she discovered on January 4th when the neighbor, without Eliana’s consent, had decided to call the police and my wife panicked trying to reach me while I was at work at City Hall, and she ran down Grove Street, to meet me late in the afternoon outside of city hall to tell me in person what happened… I did not know about any of this, about her level of contact with the neighbor, I had no idea about a video, I had no idea about what became a runaway train and she was so panicked and so scared that she was asking me, telling me, begging me to do something about this because it’s a system she’s not familiar with, and she felt there had been an orchestration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And over the last four months, the more we have learned in our own investigation and I think just in the subpoenaing of documents and everything else, my wife has arrived at a conclusion that it’s more than just the merits of a legal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Do you concur or agree with that? Do you say you found new things that make you inclined to believe that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Do I think politics is involved? You cant deny it. This morphed from, in some respect, what was in the Hall of Justice to City Hall now to an administrative process. But as sheriff and as a member of the Board of Supervisors, and as a former member of law enforcement working with the district attorney for nine years, carrying a weapon, graduate of the San Francisco Police Academy, class president…I’ve always said from second one that I have to believe on the system, which is why I would never interfere with the system, whether i like or dislike what the outcome of the system is, I’ve held to the point that I have to believe in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Well let me jump in there for a moment because there is supposed to be a hearing today on whether or not the suspension should be overturned, scheduled for Friday. Today is an initial hearing on whether Dennis Herrera, the City Attorney, ought to be involved in this. Are you going ahead with that? Because its my understanding that Dennis Herrera has brought in different counsel for the ethics committee. That would change the whole landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: This is completely unchartered territory. This has never happened before in San Francisco, and I apologize to San Franciscans for really helping cause this unprecedented and very painful kind of event. It is subscripted and unknown. So the Ethic Commission, which constitutes a panel of five political appointees, the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, the City Attorney, the District Attorney, and the Assessor Recorder — they each have an appointee in the ethics commission — they will hear and make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does beg question initially that when the city attorney was assigned to guide both the Ethics Commission and represent the Mayor against me, where is that firewall of ethics and what is just and fair? And I’ll give you another example, the City Attorney has been conducting an investigation, they have the power of subpoena, whereas my attorneys and me do not. So in the question of a criminal case, in the proceedings in the Hall of Justice where there is an investigation by the district attorney, where evidence that is collected is made discoverable, in this particular case, that has not been the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: So you’re going ahead against the district attorney…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi…is in studio talking with us about the incident and talking about, really, the, well, he used the word tsunami. At first it was described by you, Ross, as a runaway train of innuendo and now it’s become nothing less than a tsunami…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: That was weeks ago, by the way. In fact it was one think tank that had calculated the number of stories that reported on me in a seven week, six week period. That was 302 stories just in the local press, compared to, say, another high-profile incident involving one of our former mayors or something else where the number was compared to 48.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when you deal with that level of fact, and our story wasn’t being presented, that sculpts in the court of public opinion a very different scenario that we had to contend with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: A couple of things that I mentioned have sculpted the story and made the narrative go a certain way also have to do with the charge of you and your wife apparently trying to convince Ivory Madison, and her husband made the charge — that the evidence should be destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Yeah, I think that that was a complete fabrication and fiction. I was frankly just blown away that I saw that in an op-ed. And I know Eliana’s attorney as well as my attorney were shocked. And I looked forward to take that head-on. I believe in the process. And I believe that before I was sworn in as Sheriff and interrupted I was informed later in the day on January 4th about the existence of this, I was in such a state of shock that the only thing I could think of was “holy cow, we need some legal representation, we need an attorney.” That was my level of thinking. And my wife was panicked because she felt completely betrayed by the woman next door, who turned out, in my wife’s opinion, that I discovered not until January 1st that this was her attorney…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Not a friend or neighbor that she was confiding in, she went to her in mind that I’m going to an attorney…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Yes, and this had been a developing conversation that had to do with, which I did not know about…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Because they said the opposite of this. They said essentially…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: And I’m not surprised considering the fact of how this all mushroomed without my wife’s consent and in a way that really begs the question of what happened between what happened in conversation with the next door neighbor between January 1st and January 4th. What happened in those four days when there was no call to the authorities, no call to an advocacy organization out of concern for my wife or care for her condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The characterization that was wrongly reported that I had whisked my wife away on a trip to Monterey was completely false. We had pre-planned that trip before December 31st. Everybody that was close to me, preparing for the inauguration, knew that we were either going to go to San Diego or go to Monterey. And then I saw in a report that when we took that trip I was trying to sequester my wife. Going to trial, we would have been able to show the reservations that had been made and the preparations but none of this was accurately reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Well, there was an article in The Guardian that I wanted to cite by Myrna Melgar who herself was a victim of domestic abuse, who said your wife was disempowered by your neighbor, by the police, by the media, even by those who oppose domestic abuse in many ways because everybody was offering help on no level except prosecuting you. Do you agree with that assessment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I absolutely do, because in the very moment of that panic that my wife exhibited when this all erupted, that I did not know about until some time later in the day on January 4th, it was clear that she had been betrayed by the neighbor and that she was absolutely scared. I will never forget her running down Grove street, where she ran many blocks to come see me to tell me what had happened. And then it just hit me like a thunderbolt because it was hard for me to fathom just what was occurring. I’d never been on the wrong side of the law, I’ve never needed an attorney before, I’d never committed a level that I was being accused of, of this kind of act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me go back to this interview with Christina Flores where she says there were three incidents of verbal abuse and a fourth of physical – your former girlfriend when you allegedly grabbed her arm during an argument. Do you want to go on record on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Sure, I think it was a fabrication and fiction. Do I think we had an argument of verbal abuse? Yes, I do. I believe that that was well reported about her contention and, as you referenced earlier, a relationship that came to a natural end before I saw Ms. Flores, Christina Marie Flores, was with Evelyn Nieves for seven years, who took it upon herself to say there had never been any kind of unwanted contact by me at all. And nobody local accentuated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was looking forward to the trial, looking forward to the emails by Ms. Flores who, in essence, was trying to get across a way of getting even, trying to settle a score, that also had been reported when those emails were released. And I was looking forward to having that day. (\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/#flores\">\u003cstrong>See Christina Flores’ response here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, we put that case behind us and it was moving forward. Nonetheless, I walk away from any of these experiences and lessons wanting to really self-check myself making sure that nothing like this could ever happen again. So, that’s an important…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: It almost begins to sound, though, from some perspectives as your wife has said, that this begins to sound like some sort of conspiracy. But you have to say – Ivory Madison fabricating, her husband fabricating, Christina Flores fabricating- but these are people without political involvement in this at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, I cant speak to that and you can deduce as well as anyone else what they would like. Coming to the core of what we’re talking about is that I made a terrible mistake and I took responsibility for that as it relates to me and my wife. And I did so with the plea that I did, and that plea, by the way, if for a non-violent, low-level resolution of a misdemeanor that did not inhibit my ability to be Sheriff or possess a weapon, and I entered into that with the express purpose that I would retain my position, of course, only to be confronted with another challenge as instigated by the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: I should also mention that the challenge that’s going forward is based on the fact that the episode occurred before assumed office, so, the idea legally is that it cant be the basis for a suspension, but also, a suspension for a misdemeanor is being argued that it does not constitute moral turpitude and is a denial of due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of the language of the city charter defining official misconduct and whether that’s constitutional. I just want to get all that out there for listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also want to go to one of our listeners, here is Michael from Oakland who says “if he did not falsely imprison her, then why did he plea to it? I’m not buying this emotional minivan-driving soccer-dad act. that’s not the character of a top-cop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, that is exactly the facts of what happened, and that is also the facts of what my wife speaks to, too. This isn’t a story that is just coming from me, that is part of the 15 minute experience that occurred from when our argument – did only occur in our van as we left for lunch and me turning it around. And the plea of 236 False Imprisonment on a non-violent measure is exactly what characterizes how we arrived at that. I also take responsibility for the bruise that I caused. So that is all part of that whole 15-minute ordeal and nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me read another e-mail from Ron who says the story that Ross tells is quite different than what has been reported in the press. If Ross’ story is true, then the City Attorney, the DA, and the Mayor have been overzealous in their prosecution of Ross. The false imprisonment plea is a joke. What else I find troubling is the horrible legal representation Ross has received. Why not just come forward earlier and explain your side of the story than hide behind legal maneuvers? This seems more honest and I think more people would understand. If Ross and Eliana wish to see each other and work on their marriage, who are we to interfere?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure you’ll agree with that last sentiment but what about his point about why not come forward from the beginning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I wish I had. I gotta tell you. One of the things that really ate at me was the notion that I said domestic violence was a private family matter. I never said that. And that became a branding that just blew me away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as you said in your opening, as a supervisor, and even before being supervisor, I’d been an ardent champion, enthusiastically. I think people who are elected are allies of the domestic violence advocacy community and making sure that domestic violence is extinguished in this city. I took that to heart at my seven years at the budget committee, staying late at many budget committees to fight for add-backs. I never ceased to trumpet the needs of the community, especially as chair of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, I wish I had spoke earlier. And as I was trying to describe with you earlier, I’ve never been that insecure or shy with the press, where I grew at a comfort level to speak to the press, this walloped me to the point where I was just down. And that, on top of the advice of my attorney at the time, and I tend to agree that it was a bad decision to not speak to the press, we should have, and I regret that it didn’t happen earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: when you did come forward and make that apology, though, publicly, and spoke about your shame and spoke about the cost that this has had on you personally, you said I’m not the person I thought I was and this is a dark world now and admitted you had anger and arrogance issues…what did you mean by saying ‘I’m not the person I thought I was’?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Oh, my god. I’m destroyed inside out…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You thought you were tougher, more elastic, resilient?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: No. I thought I was more tender, more caring, not as gruff or abrasive, not as testosterone-packed. I think that people understand who I am, I’ve never been part of any kind of machine, per se. I’ve always been a guy driven by my tenacity and determination. I’m what people call tenacious and some think that is just maybe overbearing…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: A euphemistic word for arrogance, perhaps? Here is one commenter who says “both Ross and his supporters suggest and continue to suggest that the sole motive for his persecution is political, what Ross believes to be political is just people’s spite towards him”. People love you or hate you, and if they hate you its because of tenacity, arrogance, and maybe those personal qualities more than political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: For me it’s a survival strategy as it related to me trying to succeed in politics. I failed as a member of the Board of Supervisors in trying to cultivate relationships in a way that I think others had made it a priority with other elected and fellow supervisors. I was there to do a job. And this is a speech that I would give to staffers and interns, talking about how government doesn’t work and that it’s my determination and our opportunity to show government can work better for the people and their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: What would be the political motivation of those who you surmise to be your political enemies? Because, really, Mike Hennessy gave you his full support and said you were allied politically….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: And he’s right…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: So why would they see you as a political enemy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, I don’t think the ember stopped smoldering for many who fought to support another candidate after the November election. It was a hard-fought race. We had a strong grassroots effort, under-resourced in many ways, and we had to muster the kind of energy that was people-driven. And so others that expected a different turnout…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: So your political enemies would be those who were defeated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Not necessarily. I can’t speak to other people’s motivations or what’s catalyzed this. Some people may just be reacting to what they read in the press, what they think is the truth, how they may feel about me even before this happened on December 31st, and others may have drawn different conclusions. So I can’t really say that there’s a smoking gun right then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why when you asked me the question about the coup d’etat — everything is bubbled-up in such a way that this has been a nightmare for me and my family. But does that deter my ability from being an effective sheriff, from realizing the dream and vision that Sheriff Mike Hennessy put forward for over 30 years. And that is that we are about tpublic safety, but we’re about the power of redemption, and that’s what the criminal justice system should be in California…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: This is a city, though, that is known for that. Known for its liberal views on criminal justice…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: we could do a better job, to be honest with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Its also known for cracking down hard on domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: As it completely should, which is why I want to continue to be that champion and come with that voice and perspective that I think gives me even greater value in doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me bring in some callers and we’ll begin with Casey, good morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASEY\u003c/strong>: I’m more interested in why the state is bringing forward the charges without his wife, the injured party, bringing the charges. I think it’s something the police do on a regular basis, in probably 75% of the things they prosecute and I think it’s immoral. And I wonder what the sheriff thinks about that after his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, my wife never did want to bring charges. As a matter of fact, I believe it was the day after on January 5th when an inspector, or somebody from the police department had contacted her to see if everything was okay. And she took it upon herself to say everything was fine, I never wanted this to happen. She didn’t call 911. She told the inspector she would if she thought that there was any kind of danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was reported by the neighbors is diametrically, profoundly different than what had been shared between Eliana and the neighbor and what Eliana then told somebody over the phone from law enforcement, or on behalf of a domestic violence advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: I think we have a neighbor of yours on here. Roy, join us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ROY\u003c/strong>: I think he should pursue a career as a fiction writer. He sounds like a pathological liar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Just based on the severity of that comment, what can I say? And I’m sorry I’m emotional, but when it comes to my family, my son, the way they have been leveraged against me, I am emotional about it. It’s not easy for me to tell this story. I haven’t told it in four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When my son who was kept away from me for no reason – when one night when I was staying at Mayor Agnos’ house, he and his wife had been amazing to me allowing me to camp out there for a little bit, my wife called in a complete panic because my son had broken out in a complete rash and had respiratory problems and thought that she was going to have to rush him to the hospital to Kaiser. My immediate instinct was that I was going to help her but I had to be pulled back because of the stay-away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out to be, based on the testimony of the day-care provider the next day that due to the separation of my son and I, my son was manifesting that separation in allergic reaction. And when we went to family court, despite the interference by the DA to try to block me from seeing my son, where eventually we won and I was able to see him for two hours a day, all that reaction and the allergy and rash disappeared completely. And so, it was so painstaking that I’m still living it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I apologize that if I’m sounding emotional and I’m not the tough guy sheriff you want me to be, I don’t think there is another way to pause\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You don’t have to apologize for being emotional. Let me get another caller on the line. Scott, you’re on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT\u003c/strong>: I just wanted to thank Mr. Mirkarimi for coming on air and talking about what is going on. You have nothing to apologize about, a real man shows his emotions and is able to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just want to tell you that I’m going through the same thing and it is extremely excruciating to be away from your family. And I do think that you’re being sabotaged by the neighbor and maybe your wife was just emotional when they talked to her. And the neighbor went and called the newspaper before she even called the police. If she had real concern for your wife…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me thank the caller for that. Here is another listener who says that ‘listening to Mr. Mirkarimi has been very triggering to me. I’m in the process of divorcing a man who to hear tell the story of our marriage sounds eerily like your guest this morning. He, too had many incidents in the car, he too paints me as being hysterical and out of control when he retells the story. It’s a common tactic for men who are emotionally and verbally abusive to start arguments in the car. It’s a confined space in which the victim is truly imprisoned. I am struck by the skill with which Mr. Mirkarimi suddenly shifts blame to his wife. He was wrong and all I heard in his telling of the story were justifications for his actions. Sir, placing your hand on your wife’s arm does not cause a bruise, violently trying to restrain somebody does. Mr. Mirkarimi does not need anger management classes, abuse is not an anger problem, abuse is a problem of entitlement, entitlement to control the actions of another. Couples counseling does not help in these situations and can only make the situations worse. Counseling focuses on communication between a couple, abuse is not communication problem, it is an entitlement problem.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I agree. I completely agree with that. And again, I’m not making any justification, I’m telling you the story as it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And i think that the stream where my wife is coming from, it is consistent where shes coming from. And it is an entitlement question that i abused and was wrong for that. but i also want to explain that there was somebody else in the car. It was my son. And I’m not going to dismiss the fact the fact the i was scared and panicked for him and he was agitated as was my wife at that moment in that short period of time. May i remind you that this only lasted 15 minutes. And I made a mistake terrible as it is. i cannot say if couples counseling could help or not, that’s a projection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: I think that depends on the couple…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I think it does depend on the couple and that’s what I mean. It is something my wife wanted and something I failed to participate in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Can I ask you what’s in your heart right now? I know you’ve made it clear that you love your wife but she set all this in motion by taking this case next…..do you resent her for doing that? It would be naturally human if you did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: No, I don’t. This is all my responsibility and I take accountability to it. she made a tremendous sacrifice coming from Venezuela to this city and a lifestyle that was unfamiliar to her. I think to expect her to mold into a lifestyle. I don’t expect her to come into a relationship where there hadn’t been too much pre-courting, and so we’ve been married about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: How long was the courtship? It was pretty short as I recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: It was less than six months, and yet we were absolutely determined to make it work and celebrating the fact that we had our first child at home, we had a home birth. and the meaning of what we had at our house is something that we still cherish a great deal. Being part of a process when you have a home birth like that is something you never forget\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me read a web comment. It says, “this is nothing than a typical family process of learning how to cope with powerful feelings, which is being exploited by powerful people. I’m so sorry to Ross and his family, I cannot imagine having my children taken away from me and I suspect all the Ross haters share this essential emotion and would have been just as emotionally charged as when the argument in the family car occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a caller, Joanne, join us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOANNE\u003c/strong>. I liked your politics a lot and I’m not sure how i feel about the case but my feeling is that Ed Lee kind of had given everything that was going on had no choice but to suspend you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I think it would have been more prudent and professional had he taken me up on my offer to hear my side of the story and the independent account of my wife before he arrived at his decision. So, I understand that the mayor has to do what he has to. I don’t have an ill will about that. but as it relates to process as somebody who is a fellow elected on a city-wide stage, and somebody who has been part of law enforcement and part of the legislative body of the city, what they have done and how they’ve done it, in my opinion is unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me read some responses. Tony says, “I’ve heard enough, apology accepted. New York made a mistake drumming out Elliot Spitzer when he was Governor and Wall street really needed policing. while Oakland turned its cops against its people, I remember Ross standing with the occupiers to prevent violence. We need someone like him to be Sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another listener, Steve, says, “I voted to Ross because of his promise to continue Sheriff Mike Hennessy’s legacy of rehabilitation over retribution, when the news first broke that he was charged with domestic violence i was heartbroken, and wanted to hear from him, not the media, what happened, but I understood the criminal justice system and that he was being advised not to speak. Thank you for sharing your side and thank you Sheriff for taking responsibility, let’s move on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s your feeling isn’t it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I cannot tell you what its been like in this climate, the press, and how people have arrived to certain places. Maybe I’m projecting but it made me pretty much scared of my own shadow as I was going out in public. But people kept encouraging me to fight.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"flores\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Christina Flores responds to the Mirkarimi interview\u003c/strong>: \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One person who didn’t appreciate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/\">Ross Mirkarimi’s hour-long interview on KQED\u003c/a> yesterday was Christina Flores. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mentioned in the segment, Flores is the ex-girlfriend of Mirkarimi who, a few weeks after Mirkarimi’s arrest on domestic violence charges, filed a police report about a similar-sounding 2008 incident that she said involved Mirkarimi grabbing her arm and leaving a bruise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors wanted Flores to testify against Mirkarimi in the trial; Mirkarimi’s lawyer not so much. After a hearing, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/ross-mirkarimi-3/story/stunning-testimony-mirkarimis-ex/\">Judge Garrett Wong ruled that Flores’ testimony was admissible\u003c/a>. “The evidence is extremely probative” and “shows a propensity” for violence by Mirkarimi, the Bay Citizen reported Wong as saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, however, never went to trial, as Mirkarimi pled on a lesser charge of False Imprisonment, for which he was sentenced to three years of probation, ordered to take domestic violence classes, and ordered to perform community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here again is what Mirkarimi said about Flores in the inteview:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Host Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: Let me go back to this interview with Christina Flores where she says there were three incidents of verbal abuse and a fourth of physical – your former girlfriend when you allegedly grabbed her arm during an argument. Do you want to go on record on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong>: Sure, I think it was a fabrication and fiction. Do I think we had an argument of verbal abuse? Yes, I do. I believe that that was well reported about her contention and, as you referenced earlier, a relationship that came to a natural end before I saw Ms. Flores, Christina Marie Flores, was with Evelyn Nieves for seven years, who took it upon herself to say there had never been any kind of unwanted contact by me at all. And nobody local accentuated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was looking forward to the trial, looking forward to the emails by Ms. Flores who, in essence, was trying to get across a way of getting even, trying to settle a score. That also had been reported when those emails were released. And I was looking forward to having that day.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Upon hearing that, Ms. Flores left a comment on this blog objecting to Mirkarimi’s characterization of her. In order to verify that the comment was really posted by her, we contacted her, and she had this to say about Mirkarimi’s comments about her testimony: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was shocked. I really was appalled that he was calling me basically a liar and saying that I fabricated this story…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He sat there and said that I fabricated this, I lied about this, but I was the only one in court under oath in front of the judge, and for two days they went back and forth at me, trying to hear the story, and…after that the judge deemed that not only was my testimony important in the case, but it would show a history of what’s going on. [The judge] made a judgment that it’s important to show a history of abuse of female romantic partners…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as far as [Mirkarimi] saying on your show he was looking forward to it, that’s not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Flores says she has also talked to former romantic partners of Mirkarimi who have stories about his temper, but that they don’t want to come forward publicly. She does say, however, that a woman she cited in the comment she left as being a disgruntled ex of Mirkarimi’s is now talking to the press…We’ll let you Google that on your own…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether any of this has any legal relevance at this point — the case was ended when Mirkarimi was sentenced — is doubtful. Politically, however, who knows? The Ethics Commission hearing is slated for next week…\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s our \u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/kqed/sets/san-francisco-sheriff\">audio archive\u003c/a> of some key events in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"transcript\">\u003c/a>And here’s an edited transcript of today’s Forum segment with Mirkarimi:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: What’s the story you want people to know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong>: Well I absolutely appreciate this opportunity to be here with you. This has been quite a nightmare, an ordeal, and the story that I would have told Mayor Lee on more than one occasion in which I had offered, is frankly, a story that has been eating at me for nearly four months that I haven’t been able to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I believe my silence, and until recently my wife’s silence, had allowed this story to be narrated by a lot of innuendo, rumor, and distortion…\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I entered the office the second and last time with Mayor Ed Lee, there was very little preliminary discussion except just seconds where Mayor Lee simply told me that he has offered me an ultimatum to either resign or be suspended. The meeting would have ended right there if I did not ask him how he arrived at that decision and, again, offering him the details of the story of what happened and offering him the phone number of my wife so he could get an independent account by talking with her, since I had not seen Eliana or had contact with her since January 13th\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You were prohibited under court orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I am, and that’s been excruciating. But for the mayor, and anyone who is rendering a decision of this magnitude, I certainly had hoped he would take me up on the offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What this is about is that I made a terrible mistake on December 31st. It was at 11:45am. We were on our way to lunch from our house, in our van. We were on our way to Delfina’s Pizza on California and Fillmore, and a horrible quarrel had started between my wife and I.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What I did was turn our car around…against my wife’s wishes… which was the basis for the plea on false imprisonment.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It was a somewhat familiar subject, about an impending trip she was going to take to Venezuela. She’d taken one six months earlier where she and my son Theo had been away, out of the country for over two months. That was excruciating to be apart from my family, and we had agreed that there would be a plan because my wife, who hadn’t had her green card at that time, there had been some immigration issues, and my insistence that there be at least an agreement and a plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the car on our way to lunch we began to argue about that, where I was seriously misrepresented, when I heard somewhere somebody said that I said I was powerful and you cant take my son away. That was a complete distortion. What I had been quoting was California law and how strong our laws are in California about parental rights. And that escalated in the discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The characterization that she was, in essence, imprisoned in any kind of way is completely false.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So what I did was turn our car around, our minivan, our Dodge minivan, turned it around against my wife’s wishes. I decided not to go to lunch because I didn’t want us to be arguing in public about a very sensitive subject like that — and turn the car home, which incidentally was the basis for the plea on false imprisonment. It’s based on the fact that I turned the car around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: It sounds very innocuous, as opposed to what false imprisonment sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well I’ll leave the interpretation to anybody, but you’re right, the false imprisonment analysis that I’ve been hearing from people has just been excruciating to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the story is when I parked our car, I had already vented what I had to say, and so, it was off my chest and I had acted inappropriately. I swore at my wife in front of my son, I was angry that she wasn’t hearing me and I regret this terribly, but she was also extremely upset to a point where I had never seen her agitated before, in a way where it made my son extremely upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I was incredibly ashamed. I still am. I’m trying to muster the energy to tell the story but that’s why I’m here, because I owe the people an explanation\u003c/aside>\n\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>\n\u003cp>I thought I was being a father in a moment where I had not any premeditated thought. And I thought I was coming to – I was trying to remedy the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She then goes into our house. There had been no incident outside, as what news reports had indicated, and when I just tried to decompress for a moment or two in the car, I took my seatbelt off, locked the car up, and proceeded to go in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The door was locked, I knocked on the door. Eliana, with our son, unlocks the door and opens it. And the day, although strained, there was also no sequestering of my wife. She came and went as she pleased. There was no argument inside the house, there was nothing outside the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I think politics is involved? You cant deny it.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The characterization that she was, in essence, imprisoned in any kind of way is completely false. There were stops at the grocery store or going to a local falafel restaurant for her, for me, alternating care of Theo that day, and on the next day as well. And she decided on the next morning to go see our neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What she had informed me of, which was part of the quarrel in the car, on the late morning of December 31st, is that she had been seeing an attorney. and when I thought our conversation was about an extended stay in Venezuela, what I realized, not until the next morning, is that this was potentially a custody issue. Because it just hit me almost in an ambush kind of way is why is my wife seeing an attorney? And I had no idea who that attorney was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: The irony is that now she is in Venezuela, and she’s extended her stay in Venezuela, although, as you said, she published an article really talking about her love – it was a love letter to you and to your marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: It was a love letter and it’s the best thing I’ve received since January 13th, but you have to understand is her stay in Venezuela is something that I fully support, because to be suspended without pay, to try to break a person so that they can’t provide for their family…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Well her father is ill, too, isn’t he?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: He has cancer, and I want them to be protected and that also goes to part of why I was so concerned and stressing my concern to her during the argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s high-profile in her own right in Venezuela, in Caracas, I’d just been elected Sheriff, there had been some very high-profile stories of kidnappings of Americans in Venezuela and of other people. I’ve been in Caracas, in Venezuela a few times and I’ve seen what security conditions are like for people in the middle-class or even above. I felt that we were being lax in not having a conversation about her taking trips to Venezuela and not thinking through the kind of, well, maybe its paranoid, maybe not, but I was doing what I thought was the right thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: But the bruise, of course, became the center of focus here and it became the center of focus in large part because a former girlfriend came forward and said that you were rough with her and that exacerbated things, and so did your statement for which you apologized in which you also said that it was taken out of context about this being a private family matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I never said that this was a private family matter and there were so many distortions early on that that became the branding. And I have to say, you and I have talked on this program before on air as well as off and I’ve never really been that shy to the media. But the tsunami that had hit me and my family before I was even charged was so overwhelming that frankly I just shut down. It was a wipe-out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: And you were ashamed, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">No incident like this has ever happened before.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I was incredibly ashamed. I still am. I’m trying to muster the energy to tell the story but that’s why I’m here, because I owe the people an explanation. I’ve been a public servant seven years, proudly, of an incredible organ of government in the board of supervisors, one of the greatest districts – District 5 – I think it was a great relationship what we had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I was elected Sheriff, much to the surprise of many when I was outspent by one of my chief rival by more than two-to-one, and that we won. And so I owe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s whats been eating at me, is that while silently and privately and through the mechanics of dealing with the legal and now political administrative process, it’s finally, sort of, mustering that reserve of telling that story that hasn’t been told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me ask you, though. I want to get back to the ex-girlfriend. I know you have something, perhaps, to say about that that might clarify because there were two girlfriends. One that came forward and said that he’s a good guy and gentle…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: In fact, that was from Evelyn Nieves, where we were in a relationship for seven years…she, who I hadn’t even talked to in a while, offered that herself, which was published in the New York Times Bay Citizen, but it was never, ever, captured in the local press…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: What was captured was the woman who came up from Los Angeles to testify…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Which I was looking forward to in the trial to really disspell. I thought it was a piling on, there was so much fabrication that had come up in this piling on that that in itself made me that much more motivated and looking forward to the trial because this piling on became so insurmountable that I had no choice but to look forward to a process, to either validate or to demystify what the truth was. And, quite frankly, allegations like that are things I take very seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Your wife said this is the second time this is happening and I tell Ross I want to work on this marriage, we need help. This is in the video that was released. Both of you feel at this point wanting to move forward and, well, make this marriage work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: My wife has been a champion, both here and abroad, 5,000 miles away in Venezuela in wanting to repair and rebuild our repair our relationship. And I thank God and thank the heavens that every night when I go to bed and pray to be a better man and wake up i the morning to hope to aspire to that change that’s what motivates. Because I believe that through an experience like this, to go through an ordeal like this, to be turned inside out for public dissection in the court of public opinion, I can only hope that I either just completely evaporate as a person or just better myself as a father, as a man, as a husband, as a sheriff…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Its all about restorative justice in a way, I suppose, is what you’ve been saying implicitly all along, which you’ve been a strong advocate of. But what does your wife mean when she says this is the second time this has happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: No incident like this has ever happened before. She is referring to a quarrel that has been familiar and intense – verbally – about the extended trips to Venezuela. There had been three, and it’s a personal matter where I failed, in the last trip that she had taken, to not go to counseling, when we both agreed that counseling was the right way to sort through our misunderstandings and differences…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: She kind of said in the article that you were not all that willing to go to counseling because you were caught up in the electioneering for Sheriff…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: True. I procrastinated. I didn’t put the priorities of my marriage and my family in a way I should have, and that culminated into what I think became an avoidable situation on December 31st.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to be honest with you, as soon as this happened, before i was even charged, I immediately sought a therapist hoping, and not knowing that I was going to be charged, that we could begin couples counseling because the flag, obviously, was a 2 x 4 across my forehead, and yet, even though we tried unsuccessfully through the district attorney and the courts to go to couples counseling during this ordeal, where we had been rejected, I decided to use that therapist myself to go over some of these issues – issues I refer to in my statement, in my apology that I made after my plea…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You’ve also been doing anger management, haven’t you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, its part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Is it helpful?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Its incredibly humbling to be part of a larger caucus of men of all different ages, many who have committed very severe offenses, and not so severe. This provides a very rare perspective, whether I’m part of law enforcement, or sheriff, or not, it raises a lot of questions about how effective is our system in helping change behavior in a forward-thinking place like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Your wife says this is a political conspiracy. She said that publicly on a couple of occasions, in fact she called it a coup d’etat or golpe de estado. Do you agree?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: My wife is incredibly passionate. and the tonal quality of politics in Venezuela and Caracas is a bit different. But that’s what I love about her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the moment she discovered on January 4th when the neighbor, without Eliana’s consent, had decided to call the police and my wife panicked trying to reach me while I was at work at City Hall, and she ran down Grove Street, to meet me late in the afternoon outside of city hall to tell me in person what happened… I did not know about any of this, about her level of contact with the neighbor, I had no idea about a video, I had no idea about what became a runaway train and she was so panicked and so scared that she was asking me, telling me, begging me to do something about this because it’s a system she’s not familiar with, and she felt there had been an orchestration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And over the last four months, the more we have learned in our own investigation and I think just in the subpoenaing of documents and everything else, my wife has arrived at a conclusion that it’s more than just the merits of a legal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Do you concur or agree with that? Do you say you found new things that make you inclined to believe that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Do I think politics is involved? You cant deny it. This morphed from, in some respect, what was in the Hall of Justice to City Hall now to an administrative process. But as sheriff and as a member of the Board of Supervisors, and as a former member of law enforcement working with the district attorney for nine years, carrying a weapon, graduate of the San Francisco Police Academy, class president…I’ve always said from second one that I have to believe on the system, which is why I would never interfere with the system, whether i like or dislike what the outcome of the system is, I’ve held to the point that I have to believe in the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Well let me jump in there for a moment because there is supposed to be a hearing today on whether or not the suspension should be overturned, scheduled for Friday. Today is an initial hearing on whether Dennis Herrera, the City Attorney, ought to be involved in this. Are you going ahead with that? Because its my understanding that Dennis Herrera has brought in different counsel for the ethics committee. That would change the whole landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: This is completely unchartered territory. This has never happened before in San Francisco, and I apologize to San Franciscans for really helping cause this unprecedented and very painful kind of event. It is subscripted and unknown. So the Ethic Commission, which constitutes a panel of five political appointees, the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, the City Attorney, the District Attorney, and the Assessor Recorder — they each have an appointee in the ethics commission — they will hear and make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does beg question initially that when the city attorney was assigned to guide both the Ethics Commission and represent the Mayor against me, where is that firewall of ethics and what is just and fair? And I’ll give you another example, the City Attorney has been conducting an investigation, they have the power of subpoena, whereas my attorneys and me do not. So in the question of a criminal case, in the proceedings in the Hall of Justice where there is an investigation by the district attorney, where evidence that is collected is made discoverable, in this particular case, that has not been the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: So you’re going ahead against the district attorney…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi…is in studio talking with us about the incident and talking about, really, the, well, he used the word tsunami. At first it was described by you, Ross, as a runaway train of innuendo and now it’s become nothing less than a tsunami…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: That was weeks ago, by the way. In fact it was one think tank that had calculated the number of stories that reported on me in a seven week, six week period. That was 302 stories just in the local press, compared to, say, another high-profile incident involving one of our former mayors or something else where the number was compared to 48.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when you deal with that level of fact, and our story wasn’t being presented, that sculpts in the court of public opinion a very different scenario that we had to contend with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: A couple of things that I mentioned have sculpted the story and made the narrative go a certain way also have to do with the charge of you and your wife apparently trying to convince Ivory Madison, and her husband made the charge — that the evidence should be destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Yeah, I think that that was a complete fabrication and fiction. I was frankly just blown away that I saw that in an op-ed. And I know Eliana’s attorney as well as my attorney were shocked. And I looked forward to take that head-on. I believe in the process. And I believe that before I was sworn in as Sheriff and interrupted I was informed later in the day on January 4th about the existence of this, I was in such a state of shock that the only thing I could think of was “holy cow, we need some legal representation, we need an attorney.” That was my level of thinking. And my wife was panicked because she felt completely betrayed by the woman next door, who turned out, in my wife’s opinion, that I discovered not until January 1st that this was her attorney…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Not a friend or neighbor that she was confiding in, she went to her in mind that I’m going to an attorney…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Yes, and this had been a developing conversation that had to do with, which I did not know about…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Because they said the opposite of this. They said essentially…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: And I’m not surprised considering the fact of how this all mushroomed without my wife’s consent and in a way that really begs the question of what happened between what happened in conversation with the next door neighbor between January 1st and January 4th. What happened in those four days when there was no call to the authorities, no call to an advocacy organization out of concern for my wife or care for her condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The characterization that was wrongly reported that I had whisked my wife away on a trip to Monterey was completely false. We had pre-planned that trip before December 31st. Everybody that was close to me, preparing for the inauguration, knew that we were either going to go to San Diego or go to Monterey. And then I saw in a report that when we took that trip I was trying to sequester my wife. Going to trial, we would have been able to show the reservations that had been made and the preparations but none of this was accurately reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Well, there was an article in The Guardian that I wanted to cite by Myrna Melgar who herself was a victim of domestic abuse, who said your wife was disempowered by your neighbor, by the police, by the media, even by those who oppose domestic abuse in many ways because everybody was offering help on no level except prosecuting you. Do you agree with that assessment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I absolutely do, because in the very moment of that panic that my wife exhibited when this all erupted, that I did not know about until some time later in the day on January 4th, it was clear that she had been betrayed by the neighbor and that she was absolutely scared. I will never forget her running down Grove street, where she ran many blocks to come see me to tell me what had happened. And then it just hit me like a thunderbolt because it was hard for me to fathom just what was occurring. I’d never been on the wrong side of the law, I’ve never needed an attorney before, I’d never committed a level that I was being accused of, of this kind of act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me go back to this interview with Christina Flores where she says there were three incidents of verbal abuse and a fourth of physical – your former girlfriend when you allegedly grabbed her arm during an argument. Do you want to go on record on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Sure, I think it was a fabrication and fiction. Do I think we had an argument of verbal abuse? Yes, I do. I believe that that was well reported about her contention and, as you referenced earlier, a relationship that came to a natural end before I saw Ms. Flores, Christina Marie Flores, was with Evelyn Nieves for seven years, who took it upon herself to say there had never been any kind of unwanted contact by me at all. And nobody local accentuated that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was looking forward to the trial, looking forward to the emails by Ms. Flores who, in essence, was trying to get across a way of getting even, trying to settle a score, that also had been reported when those emails were released. And I was looking forward to having that day. (\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/04/18/ross-mirkarimi-in-hour-long-interview-live-at-9-a-m/#flores\">\u003cstrong>See Christina Flores’ response here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, we put that case behind us and it was moving forward. Nonetheless, I walk away from any of these experiences and lessons wanting to really self-check myself making sure that nothing like this could ever happen again. So, that’s an important…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: It almost begins to sound, though, from some perspectives as your wife has said, that this begins to sound like some sort of conspiracy. But you have to say – Ivory Madison fabricating, her husband fabricating, Christina Flores fabricating- but these are people without political involvement in this at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, I cant speak to that and you can deduce as well as anyone else what they would like. Coming to the core of what we’re talking about is that I made a terrible mistake and I took responsibility for that as it relates to me and my wife. And I did so with the plea that I did, and that plea, by the way, if for a non-violent, low-level resolution of a misdemeanor that did not inhibit my ability to be Sheriff or possess a weapon, and I entered into that with the express purpose that I would retain my position, of course, only to be confronted with another challenge as instigated by the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: I should also mention that the challenge that’s going forward is based on the fact that the episode occurred before assumed office, so, the idea legally is that it cant be the basis for a suspension, but also, a suspension for a misdemeanor is being argued that it does not constitute moral turpitude and is a denial of due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a question of the language of the city charter defining official misconduct and whether that’s constitutional. I just want to get all that out there for listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also want to go to one of our listeners, here is Michael from Oakland who says “if he did not falsely imprison her, then why did he plea to it? I’m not buying this emotional minivan-driving soccer-dad act. that’s not the character of a top-cop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, that is exactly the facts of what happened, and that is also the facts of what my wife speaks to, too. This isn’t a story that is just coming from me, that is part of the 15 minute experience that occurred from when our argument – did only occur in our van as we left for lunch and me turning it around. And the plea of 236 False Imprisonment on a non-violent measure is exactly what characterizes how we arrived at that. I also take responsibility for the bruise that I caused. So that is all part of that whole 15-minute ordeal and nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me read another e-mail from Ron who says the story that Ross tells is quite different than what has been reported in the press. If Ross’ story is true, then the City Attorney, the DA, and the Mayor have been overzealous in their prosecution of Ross. The false imprisonment plea is a joke. What else I find troubling is the horrible legal representation Ross has received. Why not just come forward earlier and explain your side of the story than hide behind legal maneuvers? This seems more honest and I think more people would understand. If Ross and Eliana wish to see each other and work on their marriage, who are we to interfere?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure you’ll agree with that last sentiment but what about his point about why not come forward from the beginning?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I wish I had. I gotta tell you. One of the things that really ate at me was the notion that I said domestic violence was a private family matter. I never said that. And that became a branding that just blew me away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as you said in your opening, as a supervisor, and even before being supervisor, I’d been an ardent champion, enthusiastically. I think people who are elected are allies of the domestic violence advocacy community and making sure that domestic violence is extinguished in this city. I took that to heart at my seven years at the budget committee, staying late at many budget committees to fight for add-backs. I never ceased to trumpet the needs of the community, especially as chair of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, I wish I had spoke earlier. And as I was trying to describe with you earlier, I’ve never been that insecure or shy with the press, where I grew at a comfort level to speak to the press, this walloped me to the point where I was just down. And that, on top of the advice of my attorney at the time, and I tend to agree that it was a bad decision to not speak to the press, we should have, and I regret that it didn’t happen earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: when you did come forward and make that apology, though, publicly, and spoke about your shame and spoke about the cost that this has had on you personally, you said I’m not the person I thought I was and this is a dark world now and admitted you had anger and arrogance issues…what did you mean by saying ‘I’m not the person I thought I was’?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Oh, my god. I’m destroyed inside out…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You thought you were tougher, more elastic, resilient?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: No. I thought I was more tender, more caring, not as gruff or abrasive, not as testosterone-packed. I think that people understand who I am, I’ve never been part of any kind of machine, per se. I’ve always been a guy driven by my tenacity and determination. I’m what people call tenacious and some think that is just maybe overbearing…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: A euphemistic word for arrogance, perhaps? Here is one commenter who says “both Ross and his supporters suggest and continue to suggest that the sole motive for his persecution is political, what Ross believes to be political is just people’s spite towards him”. People love you or hate you, and if they hate you its because of tenacity, arrogance, and maybe those personal qualities more than political.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: For me it’s a survival strategy as it related to me trying to succeed in politics. I failed as a member of the Board of Supervisors in trying to cultivate relationships in a way that I think others had made it a priority with other elected and fellow supervisors. I was there to do a job. And this is a speech that I would give to staffers and interns, talking about how government doesn’t work and that it’s my determination and our opportunity to show government can work better for the people and their cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: What would be the political motivation of those who you surmise to be your political enemies? Because, really, Mike Hennessy gave you his full support and said you were allied politically….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: And he’s right…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: So why would they see you as a political enemy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, I don’t think the ember stopped smoldering for many who fought to support another candidate after the November election. It was a hard-fought race. We had a strong grassroots effort, under-resourced in many ways, and we had to muster the kind of energy that was people-driven. And so others that expected a different turnout…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: So your political enemies would be those who were defeated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Not necessarily. I can’t speak to other people’s motivations or what’s catalyzed this. Some people may just be reacting to what they read in the press, what they think is the truth, how they may feel about me even before this happened on December 31st, and others may have drawn different conclusions. So I can’t really say that there’s a smoking gun right then and there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why when you asked me the question about the coup d’etat — everything is bubbled-up in such a way that this has been a nightmare for me and my family. But does that deter my ability from being an effective sheriff, from realizing the dream and vision that Sheriff Mike Hennessy put forward for over 30 years. And that is that we are about tpublic safety, but we’re about the power of redemption, and that’s what the criminal justice system should be in California…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: This is a city, though, that is known for that. Known for its liberal views on criminal justice…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: we could do a better job, to be honest with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Its also known for cracking down hard on domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: As it completely should, which is why I want to continue to be that champion and come with that voice and perspective that I think gives me even greater value in doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me bring in some callers and we’ll begin with Casey, good morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASEY\u003c/strong>: I’m more interested in why the state is bringing forward the charges without his wife, the injured party, bringing the charges. I think it’s something the police do on a regular basis, in probably 75% of the things they prosecute and I think it’s immoral. And I wonder what the sheriff thinks about that after his case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Well, my wife never did want to bring charges. As a matter of fact, I believe it was the day after on January 5th when an inspector, or somebody from the police department had contacted her to see if everything was okay. And she took it upon herself to say everything was fine, I never wanted this to happen. She didn’t call 911. She told the inspector she would if she thought that there was any kind of danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was reported by the neighbors is diametrically, profoundly different than what had been shared between Eliana and the neighbor and what Eliana then told somebody over the phone from law enforcement, or on behalf of a domestic violence advocacy organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: I think we have a neighbor of yours on here. Roy, join us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ROY\u003c/strong>: I think he should pursue a career as a fiction writer. He sounds like a pathological liar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: Just based on the severity of that comment, what can I say? And I’m sorry I’m emotional, but when it comes to my family, my son, the way they have been leveraged against me, I am emotional about it. It’s not easy for me to tell this story. I haven’t told it in four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When my son who was kept away from me for no reason – when one night when I was staying at Mayor Agnos’ house, he and his wife had been amazing to me allowing me to camp out there for a little bit, my wife called in a complete panic because my son had broken out in a complete rash and had respiratory problems and thought that she was going to have to rush him to the hospital to Kaiser. My immediate instinct was that I was going to help her but I had to be pulled back because of the stay-away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turned out to be, based on the testimony of the day-care provider the next day that due to the separation of my son and I, my son was manifesting that separation in allergic reaction. And when we went to family court, despite the interference by the DA to try to block me from seeing my son, where eventually we won and I was able to see him for two hours a day, all that reaction and the allergy and rash disappeared completely. And so, it was so painstaking that I’m still living it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I apologize that if I’m sounding emotional and I’m not the tough guy sheriff you want me to be, I don’t think there is another way to pause\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: You don’t have to apologize for being emotional. Let me get another caller on the line. Scott, you’re on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SCOTT\u003c/strong>: I just wanted to thank Mr. Mirkarimi for coming on air and talking about what is going on. You have nothing to apologize about, a real man shows his emotions and is able to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just want to tell you that I’m going through the same thing and it is extremely excruciating to be away from your family. And I do think that you’re being sabotaged by the neighbor and maybe your wife was just emotional when they talked to her. And the neighbor went and called the newspaper before she even called the police. If she had real concern for your wife…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me thank the caller for that. Here is another listener who says that ‘listening to Mr. Mirkarimi has been very triggering to me. I’m in the process of divorcing a man who to hear tell the story of our marriage sounds eerily like your guest this morning. He, too had many incidents in the car, he too paints me as being hysterical and out of control when he retells the story. It’s a common tactic for men who are emotionally and verbally abusive to start arguments in the car. It’s a confined space in which the victim is truly imprisoned. I am struck by the skill with which Mr. Mirkarimi suddenly shifts blame to his wife. He was wrong and all I heard in his telling of the story were justifications for his actions. Sir, placing your hand on your wife’s arm does not cause a bruise, violently trying to restrain somebody does. Mr. Mirkarimi does not need anger management classes, abuse is not an anger problem, abuse is a problem of entitlement, entitlement to control the actions of another. Couples counseling does not help in these situations and can only make the situations worse. Counseling focuses on communication between a couple, abuse is not communication problem, it is an entitlement problem.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I agree. I completely agree with that. And again, I’m not making any justification, I’m telling you the story as it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And i think that the stream where my wife is coming from, it is consistent where shes coming from. And it is an entitlement question that i abused and was wrong for that. but i also want to explain that there was somebody else in the car. It was my son. And I’m not going to dismiss the fact the fact the i was scared and panicked for him and he was agitated as was my wife at that moment in that short period of time. May i remind you that this only lasted 15 minutes. And I made a mistake terrible as it is. i cannot say if couples counseling could help or not, that’s a projection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: I think that depends on the couple…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I think it does depend on the couple and that’s what I mean. It is something my wife wanted and something I failed to participate in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Can I ask you what’s in your heart right now? I know you’ve made it clear that you love your wife but she set all this in motion by taking this case next…..do you resent her for doing that? It would be naturally human if you did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: No, I don’t. This is all my responsibility and I take accountability to it. she made a tremendous sacrifice coming from Venezuela to this city and a lifestyle that was unfamiliar to her. I think to expect her to mold into a lifestyle. I don’t expect her to come into a relationship where there hadn’t been too much pre-courting, and so we’ve been married about three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: How long was the courtship? It was pretty short as I recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: It was less than six months, and yet we were absolutely determined to make it work and celebrating the fact that we had our first child at home, we had a home birth. and the meaning of what we had at our house is something that we still cherish a great deal. Being part of a process when you have a home birth like that is something you never forget\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me read a web comment. It says, “this is nothing than a typical family process of learning how to cope with powerful feelings, which is being exploited by powerful people. I’m so sorry to Ross and his family, I cannot imagine having my children taken away from me and I suspect all the Ross haters share this essential emotion and would have been just as emotionally charged as when the argument in the family car occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a caller, Joanne, join us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JOANNE\u003c/strong>. I liked your politics a lot and I’m not sure how i feel about the case but my feeling is that Ed Lee kind of had given everything that was going on had no choice but to suspend you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>RM\u003c/strong>: I think it would have been more prudent and professional had he taken me up on my offer to hear my side of the story and the independent account of my wife before he arrived at his decision. So, I understand that the mayor has to do what he has to. I don’t have an ill will about that. but as it relates to process as somebody who is a fellow elected on a city-wide stage, and somebody who has been part of law enforcement and part of the legislative body of the city, what they have done and how they’ve done it, in my opinion is unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MK\u003c/strong>: Let me read some responses. Tony says, “I’ve heard enough, apology accepted. New York made a mistake drumming out Elliot Spitzer when he was Governor and Wall street really needed policing. while Oakland turned its cops against its people, I remember Ross standing with the occupiers to prevent violence. 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[The judge] made a judgment that it’s important to show a history of abuse of female romantic partners…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So as far as [Mirkarimi] saying on your show he was looking forward to it, that’s not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Flores says she has also talked to former romantic partners of Mirkarimi who have stories about his temper, but that they don’t want to come forward publicly. She does say, however, that a woman she cited in the comment she left as being a disgruntled ex of Mirkarimi’s is now talking to the press…We’ll let you Google that on your own…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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