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In an expansive, nuanced and thoughtful conversation, Ross Mirkarimi, a San Francisco supervisor and candidate for sheriff, told us recently that the city’s tenants might now have too much power. A constituent’s demand for $70,000 to vacate a rent-controlled apartment, he said, amounted to “extortion.”
But those comments, Mr. Mirkarimi said in The San Francisco Bay Guardian the following week in response to tenant blowback, “do not reflect my views or my record.”
In short, Mr. Mirkarimi reassured voters that his actions and policies will in no way be affected by his actual beliefs, even after he has observed with alarm the real-world effect of laws he has personally championed.
As it enters the election season, San Francisco finds itself with a clutch of political figures who, like Mr. Mirkarimi, seem determined to turn prevarication into a comical art form.
Perhaps they should take some tips from Stephen Colbert and footnote their remarks with “Not intended to be a factual statement.” Mr. Colbert minted that disclaimer last month and has had a lot of fun with it on Twitter, after Jon Kyl of Arizona declared on the Senate floor that more than 90 percent of Planned Parenthood’s budget was spent on abortions — and then had an aide explain, when confronted with the real number (3 percent), that his boss had never intended his statement to be understood as being actually true.
Mr. Mirkarimi and other candidates here are hard at work perfecting their own routines. Consider these developments from just the past week or so:
? Dennis Herrera, the city attorney and a leading mayoral candidate, hired a registered lobbyist, Alex Tourk, as his campaign manager. A 2004 law — passed when Mr. Tourk was Mayor Gavin Newsom’s deputy chief of staff and Mr. Herrera was already city attorney — made it illegal for campaign consultants to lobby their clients.
Nonetheless, Mr. Tourk reports lobbying Mr. Herrera on behalf of a hospital seeking city approval to expand.
(The same day that the lobbying reportedly took place, the hospital’s chairman made a donation to Mr. Herrera’s campaign.)
“Dennis does not believe those meetings” with his registered lobbyist/campaign manager “were lobbying,” said Mr. Herrera’s campaign spokeswoman, Jill Nelson. Are there any records of what was said, considering that Mr. Tourk certainly regarded those meetings as lobbying when he submitted his report to the city ethics commission?
There are “no records,” Ms. Nelson said, “because they are not meetings. If Dennis doesn’t have those meetings on his calendar, they didn’t happen.”
Last week Mr. Tourk left Mr. Herrera’s campaign.
? In February, Edwin Lee, the interim mayor, affirmed to a roomful of Bay Citizen reporters and editors that $300 million to $400 million had to be cut from what the city spends annually on pensions and benefits. If not, he said, the city could be bankrupt in five to 10 years. Recording devices rolling, he also vowed that under no circumstances would he run for mayor. Is that unequivocal, he was asked? Yes, he responded.
Three months later, Mr. Lee is about to declare victory with a plan to trim roughly $100 million in pension costs. He steadfastly refuses to entertain questions about how a $300 million bankruptcy-inducing emergency has been transformed into a $100 million victory. Oh, and that mayoral run? Stay tuned.
? State Senator Leland Yee, also a mayoral candidate, is a lover of shark-fin soup, and he loudly opposed a proposed ban on the dish as an insult to Chinese-Americans.
But this week at least, Mr. Yee is a lover of sharks.
“We totally share concerns about what is happening to the sharks,” Jim Stearns, Mr. Yee’s campaign strategist, said Monday. What changed? A coterie of Chinese and Chinese-American shark-loving celebrities appeared together in San Francisco last week, and a poll found that 70 percent of the state’s Chinese-Americans are perfectly content to renounce shark-fin soup to protect the world’s shark population.
So Mr. Yee is “95 percent” in favor of the ban, said Mr. Stearns. And he is floating this compromise: shark-fin soup is fine, as long as it comes from a legally caught shark whose entire corpse is eaten. “If you are selling shark-fin soup, you’d better have a receipt showing” that the rest of the animal was consumed, Mr. Stearns said.
Mr. Yee’s proposal is comically unenforceable, akin to passing a law decreeing that filet mignon cannot be served unless the pulverized hooves of the cow in question are eaten for dessert.
Really. In all truthiness.
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