A federal grand jury is investigating whether San Francisco’s policy of offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants violates U.S. laws against harboring people who are in the country illegally, city officials say. City Attorney Dennis Herrera said his office has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent employees who might be questioned or asked for documents. He and Mayor Gavin Newsom said they would cooperate with the investigation.
The policy of not referring juvenile offenders to federal immigration authorities had been in place for at least a decade. Newsom announced in July, after the first Chronicle articles appeared, that he had halted the flights in May and told city officials to start turning over youthful felons as well as adults to immigration officers for deportation.
It seems, these days, we can’t go an election cycle without some sort of sex scandal involving a public official gracing our newspaper headlines. Whether it’s John Edwards cheating on his wife or Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sending illicit text messages to his “lover,” sex and politics seem to go hand in hand since Thomas Jefferson had an “extended family.” Sorry we’re not going to cover FDR, JFK only the new new affairs.
Here’s a list of some of the more noteworthy extramarital transgressions involving our public officials in recent history.
We all remember Senator Larry Craig who inadvertently has made airport men’s bathrooms an uncomfortable place to be. Senator Craig has taken the Clinton approach of denial. But don’t worry he’s not gay.
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned after news becomes public that he paid for the services of a high end call girl. Ironic since Spitzer came into office, “as a fierce enforcer of ethics in public life.”
My point here is that these are our leaders. The people we elect to represent our interests. Now no one is perfect but come on get it together. What pisses me off the most is that these representatives spend most of their time screwing us, the taxpayer, with higher taxes, less services and in many cases can’t even pass a budget on time leaving many families out in the wind and costing us millions more in interest payments because they can’t do their jobs. Given all these significant deficiencies how do they possibly have the time to f*&k all these people and us at the same time?
San Francisco is slowly waking up to the fact that the current administration does not have the average tax-payer’s best interest in mind. I know, big surprise right?
So in other words Newsom is either lying about not knowing or is an incompetent Mayor. We should be outraged.
At some point in time we have to stand up for our cities, for our families for ourselves and for common sense. It’s not like we’re asking the mayor and DA to gas these criminals. All we’re really asking them to do is their jobs. Bear in mind San Francisco has to pay back the Federal Government a few million for their indiscretions who do you think in the end will be stuck with the bill?
