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Conflicted San Francisco voters eject sanctuary city sheriff
Hotair ^ | 11/04/2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 11/04/2015 7:45:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind

There’s something strange going on in the City by the Bay after yesterday’s municipal elections, but I suspect that it’s far too early to get very excited about it. San Francisco voters went to the polls and rejected their sheriff who had become something of the face of the so called “sanctuary city” and they did so by a wide margin. (Fox News)

Embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi convincingly lost his bid for re-election Tuesday after spending months in the national spotlight as the face of his city’s controversial “sanctuary city” policy on illegal immigration.

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. With 42 percent of precincts reporting, Henessy had received 63 percent of the vote to 31 percent for Mirkarimi.

Mirkarimi was at the helm of the Sheriff’s department when Francisco Sanchez was released in defiance of immigration law requirements, only to go on to murder Kate Steinle this summer. Hennessy, the incoming Sheriff, has been critical of the policy in the past.

Hennessy has previously said the sheriff’s order barring the San Francisco jail from cooperating with immigration officials is misguided. There are cases, she said, when federal immigration officials should be notified that the jail is about to release an inmate who is in the country illegally.

Those are actually some fairly milquetoast comments which would still be seen as heavily liberal leaning anywhere outside of the nation’s most progressive urban hubs, but it’s still better than nothing. Being willing to admit that there may be some cases where local law enforcement should actually enforce the law in terms of federal immigration statutes may be a baby step in the right direction, but it’s at least a step.

Still, it looks like Mirkarimi had some other problems brewing before election time rolled around. We’re not talking about huge scandals here, but the local reporting does indicate that he had his driver’s license suspended for a short time when he failed to report a minor car accident and he failed his marksmanship test earlier in the year. Some other, more serious allegations dealt with a high profile escape at the jail (bringing his leadership and security handling into question) and a case where jailers were staging fights between inmates for gambling purposes. (But if the boys are going to scrap anyway, making a few bucks off the deal is just old fashioned capitalism, really.)

So were the voters sending a message on the Sheriff’s sanctuary city status or did they just not care for the job Mirkarimi was doing in general? They keep electing the same old progressives to other leadership positions in the city and in October their board of supervisors unanimously gave a thumbs up to a resolution keeping the city’s sanctuary status in place. It doesn’t sound like the voters have let the murder of one of their own residents by a violent illegal alien felon put them off their feed all that much or we’d have seen more people in city government getting the boot.

We’ll put a bookmark on this one and see if there is any more movement in San Francisco in the direction of sanity. At this point I’m not holding my breath.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Illinois; US: New York
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1 posted on 11/04/2015 7:45:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He was also in the new for beating his wife.


2 posted on 11/04/2015 7:48:19 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: SeekAndFind

Book ‘im Dano....


3 posted on 11/04/2015 7:48:25 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sheriff Vicki?

Somehow, I doubt things just got any better.


4 posted on 11/04/2015 7:53:09 AM PST by digger48
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To: SeekAndFind

Libs only need to point the finger at someone, and claim it’s their fault for resolution of a problem, or unfavorable instance.

Then all is well, and they go on living in their convoluted World until they need to point the finger at someone else.

It was Mirkarimi’s turn to get the point of the finger as Mirkarimi was the Sheriff when Kate Steinle was murdered by the illegal alien.

It wasn’t the “sanctuary city” thing you see. It was Mirkarimi’s fault, so the “sanctuary city” will continue, but without Mirkarimi who was at fault for the Kate Steinle news event that exposed their beloved “sanctuary city” to the negative scrutiny.

Now all is well in Lib Land, and life can go on.


5 posted on 11/04/2015 8:04:43 AM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: SeekAndFind
In her campaign points, Vicki Hennessy said she is also a Sanctuary City advocate and has promised to work to keep SF a Sanctuary City. Not verbatim.
6 posted on 11/04/2015 8:04:58 AM PST by drypowder
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently, something besides the queers in San Fran have spoken. What happened to the “rule of law” the sniveling progressives are always screeching about?


7 posted on 11/04/2015 8:21:57 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well that’s a piteous shame, that is. I have to say that Mirkarimi looked absolutely FABULOUS in his uniform. So many, many stars! It was like lying on the grass with a mint julep and looking up at the night sky. Just Glorious!


8 posted on 11/04/2015 8:29:55 AM PST by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: digger48

Why?

Was Sheriff Vicki once Lt Victor?

The predecessor Sheriff did not have the popular moonbat
mayor Lee on his side. They fended over the Sheriff’s
wife beating arrests for some reason.


9 posted on 11/04/2015 9:28:24 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-)l)
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To: digger48

Why?

Was Sheriff Vicki once Lt Victor?

The predecessor Sheriff did not have the popular moonbat
mayor Lee on his side. They fended over the Sheriff’s
wife beating arrests for some reason.


10 posted on 11/04/2015 9:28:24 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf ;-)l)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Mirkarimi was at the helm of the Sheriff’s department when Francisco Sanchez was released in defiance of immigration law requirements, only to go on to murder Kate Steinle this summer.
And Trump wins California. :')


11 posted on 11/04/2015 1:35:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: drypowder

Horrible. Well it was good while it lasted for me thinking maybe good rule out over evil.


12 posted on 11/04/2015 1:44:17 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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