Breaking news from the San Francisco Chronicle’s web portal, sfgate.com, that Ed Jew, the City supervisor who was accused of living in a different city while representing the predominantly Asian Sunset District, has resigned in exchange of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and City Attorney Dennis Herrera dropping a lawsuit and misconduct proceedings. He is still dealing with lawsuits by SF District Attorney Kamala Harris, who filed felony perjury and fraud changes in connection to his residency, and the FBI who indicted Jew on bribery, fraud and extortion by allegedly telling people who tried to establish Quickly branches in his district to pay him up to $84,000 in bribes.
It just makes me wonder when the Asians in SF will stop trying to focus their efforts in getting an Asian supervisor just in the Sunset, and actually start developing politicians in different parts of SF where we have significant populations–like everywhere else in the City. Even though I now live outside of SF, it’s always amused me to see how all the efforts by Asians to get elected to the SF Board of Supervisors was always focused on the Sunset, and yet it seemed that less attention was paid to Asians running in other districts, like the Richmond, Chinatown, or even Visitacion Valley/Bayview. Considering that SF is 40% Asian, I would think that we would try to support Asian politicians all over the City, and not just areas that seem to be a sure bet.
(Flickr photo credit: Neko Ewen)
