What To Do About Ed Jew?

About 50 supporters of Ed Jew, the embattled San Francisco Supervisor from the Sunset District, assembled on City Hall's Polk Street stairs for a public rally on Friday morning.



There was plenty of media present including the ubiquitous Pat Murphy showing off his zinc oxide colored legs.



Calvin Louie, president of the Chinese American Democratic Club, was crying discrimination because San Francisco's District Attorney, Kamala Harris, along with most of the rest of City Hall's power structure, have been very hasty in charging Jew with felony charges for not living in his official Sunset District home on 28th Avenue. Louie had a point in that Ms. Harris doesn't seem to charge anybody else with much of anything.



The speakers, such as Richard Ow above, alternated between English and Chinese in their speeches which was interesting to hear. None of them seemed to address Supervisor Jew's real problem, which is getting caught in an FBI sting after somebody in his organization pulled a $40,000 extortion scam on the Quickly tapioca chain. The best compiler of the entire scandal has been Rita Hao of SFist (click here for the latest) and following that link will take you to a fascinating comment by "leftalone" (#55) who claims to work for Ed Jew. Whether the commenter is authentic, I don't have a clue but it sounds about right.

"Take it for what it's worth. I want to be a good commenter. But I have every reason to stay anonymous. I work for Ed. One post. No followups. This is both most interesting and most unofficial site I could find. Simply, two stories to get off my chest as I watch my hard work falling apart -

1. "They never check."
During the '06 campaign, I was putting up signs while Ed was doing his "meet & greets" on Taraval. We stopped by his house to pick up something. It was vacant. I asked to use the bathroom. Ed said it wasn't working. I said I heard that supes are supposed to live in their respective districts. Ed said "they never check."

2. The "Why Not?"
Long story short. The Wonderful Foods - Quickly saga was mostly the greedy, trifling, hair-brained work of people much smaller than Ed. When I first heard the proposal to approach the first Quickly with a proposal, I asked, "Why get involved over pennies?". Ed replied, "Why not?"

Political bedfellows don't get much stranger than Joe O'Donoghue, the retired Residential Builders Association President, who is shown above holding the "Double Standards" sign. Joe is the major thug responsible for the blight of "live/work lofts" that transformed South of Market and the Mission District during the dot-com era.



Still, it often takes a criminal to spot another one, and Mr. O'Donoghue is nothing if not eloquent. His denunciation of Kamala Harris for her selective prosecution and lack of due process was a corker, ending with a memorable final line: "Kamala Harris is the Duke Prosecutor of San Francisco!"