Posted on 01/30/2018 1:36:40 PM PST by MarvinStinson
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi looks like he’ll be updating his resume after suffering a landslide loss in his re-election bid last night. \
Mirkarimi was in office when Kate Steinle was shot and killed by Francisco Sanchez, a five-time deported illegal alien. It set off a national debate about sanctuary cities, San Francisco becoming one of them in 1989.
In July, Mirkarimi defended the policy, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper that the policy makes the city “safer.” Nevertheless, there were other reasons why Mirkarimi was booted. His tenure was dotted with controversy, one of them, as Katie mentioned, being a domestic abuse charge from 2012 (via Fox News):
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, 54, was defeated by Vicki Hennessy, a former sheriff's official who had the endorsement of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and the sheriff deputies association. As of early Wednesday morning, Hennessy had received 62 percent of the vote to just 31 percent for Mirkarimi.
Mirkarimi was the subject of national criticism after Mexican illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle on San Francisco's waterfront July 1. Sanchez had been released from Mirkarimi's jail in March even though federal immigration officials had requested he be detained for possible deportation.
But since then, the sheriff's oversight of the department has been plagued by other high-profile mishaps and controversies seen as contributing to his defeat. He had his driver's license briefly suspended for failing to properly report a minor accident while driving a department-issued car, and he also flunked a marksmanship test.
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In November 2014, Mirkarimi also was forced to apologize for the bungled search for a San Francisco General Hospital patient whose body was found in a stairwell weeks after she wandered from her room. The sheriff is in charge of the hospital's security, but deputies didn't search the building until nine days after her disappearance. The city paid the patient's family $3 million to settle a lawsuit.
At the time of Mirkarimi’s domestic abuse charges, Mayor Ed Lee suspended him, but was reinstated after a vote by the city’s Board of Supervisors. Lee needed nine votes, but only got four. Federal action to deal with sanctuary cities was in something of a legislative limbo before being outright blocked by the Senate. The White House also threatened to veto the legislation if it was passed.
Cortney also noted yesterday that another bill, Kate’s Law, is popular among voters.
San Francisco is both a City and a County, covering the exact same territory. A great way to double up on bureaucracy!!
Thanks. It must be a hold over thing from centuries of yore.
Is there a separate County gov’t, excepting the Sheriff?
“What are the odds on her being a lesbian. “
She is a wife and mother of two children.
Oh my. How strange. She must have some other major malfunction. Check her teeth. :)
You are wrong here!
Vicki Hennessy is the Sheriff of San Francisco and is San Francisco’s first female sheriff. She was appointed interim sheriff by Mayor Ed Lee pending an ethics investigation of the elected sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, who was charged with domestic violence battery and later agreed to a plea bargain in which he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment. She is not related to former San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey.
Hennessy is a native of San Francisco and a graduate of Lowell High School. Her husband is a retired San Francisco police officer. She is the mother of two grown children.
Board of County Suervisors...Maybe its a Califonia thing.
Ross Mirkarimi...check out this idiot’s Wikipedia entry for some laughs. He duked it out with his wife and he is half Iranian ....lol lol
“She must have some other major malfunction.”
Yep. She does her homework before opening mouth!
But he is the co-founder of the Green Party of California.
In San Francisco this is “experience”.
Oh, you’re assuming gender self-refection? Facts not in evidence.
What are the odds on bestiality?
*waves*
From her Wiki:
“Her husband is a retired San Francisco police officer. She is the mother of two grown children.”
What I want to know: will she be an improvement over the previous Sheriff?
Why are you posting an article on an event that occurred more than 2 years ago?
“Why does SF have a Sheriff?”
Because San Francisco is a CITY AND A COUNTY. They have the same boundaries. It has both a Police Department and a Sheriff’s Department. The Police Department takes care of the downtown, and the Sheriff the surrounding areas. It has a County Board of Supervisors, but no City Council.
In case you all didn’t notice, this story is more than 2 years old ...
I'll give you 3 to 1. And I'm being generous.
:)
“In San Francisco this is “experience”.”
But you will note from his Wiki, that he was “born” in Chicago to a 19 year old Jewish girl and an Iranian father. This effluent wasn’t born here, he came here to crap up a once wonderful city that has been taken down by diversity.
I can pay-off in Schiff-coin.
Hahahahaha...multi layered joke....the best kind. :)
I will lay $000.00 to your $100.00 that you are right.
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