By John Shanley New District Attorney George Gascón stated that he did not attend the swearing in of New Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi because he was currently under investigation by the DA’s office and he feared the prospect of a conflict of interest. A legal conflict is not like the concept of being in bounds or out of bounds on [...]

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This is a memorandum from a former long-time attorney for public defender Jeff Adachi, who is critical of her boss, but contains insightful information that the Argonaut thinks is important for readers considering voting for Adachi in his opportunistic run for mayor.

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By Warren Hinckle & Arlo Hale Smith, Jr. An outrage of international impact apparently not reported except in Chinese language newspapers, has befallen San Francisco’s once proud progressive Democratic Party.   We have to say it out loud, it is the fault of Aaron Peskin’s often outrageous manipulations and management of the local Democratic Party [...]

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The Only Candidates With The Experience To Do The Job There are two candidates in this election that the Argonaut enthusiastically endorses — Bill Fazio for District Attorney and Chris Cunnie for Sheriff.

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The Argonaut recommends–as we are forced to comply with the city’s confusing and hideously expensive Ranked Choice Voting system–the following candidates and yea or nay on ballot propositions (We will explain our reasoning below): Mayor:     Ed Lee, 2nd Choice: Michela Alioto-Pier, 3rd Choice: Bevan Dufty DA:             Bill Fazio, 2nd Choice: George Gascon [...]

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In an historic and politically histrionic defeat for the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee controlled by Aaron Peskin, moderates have been elected to the Board of Supervisors –all of Peskin’s ‘progressive’ candidates lost – and the majority of his ballot propositions were also rejected by the voters in the November 2 election.

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Now that the dust has somewhat settled, one thing is clear . . . Aaron Peskin’s Political Machine took a major beating in the November 2nd election.

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