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It's the Ed Jew San Francisco calendar for 2007! We want the Burlingame one too. Thanks to reader Jake for sending it along -- we may use the back cover for the Day Around The Bay post we're going to write up next.
The Chron's gotten a copy of the 44 page affidavit that the DA investigator filed in support of arresting Ed Jew, and, wow, it does not look good:
--Okay, to start with, Jew, through his attorney, says he didn't move into the 28th Ave. house until June 2006. However, the investigators found evidence that he's voted using that address seven times since 2003. You can only vote where you live, obviously, so there's your first problem.
--It gets worse. Neighbors say they've never seen anyone living in the house, though someone comes by every few weeks to pick up the mail and the free papers. There were never any lights on, and the spot outside the house was known as a good place to park your car because there was never anyone there.
--No one's ever seen a garbage can outside the house until two weeks ago (May 25, 2007), when a new garbage can was delivered. The raid on Ed Jew's office took place on May 18.
--The water and electricity bill at the 28th Avenue house was around $18 per three-month billing cycle. By contrast, the water bill in Burlingame showed usage of around 2700-5700 gallons of water per two-month billing cycle.
--And -- okay, this one's the worst. At the same time that Ed Jew was registered to vote at the 28th Avenue address (and thus claiming to live there), he was renting out the house. The first tenant, who moved in around 2003, said Jew was not living in the house at the time. (Also, there was a drive-by shooting into the house around that time, and a few years later, a leaky toilet created a $1900 water bill. Not relevant to the residency inquiry, but interesting!)
Conclusion: Not looking so good for our boy Tapioca Ed! On the bright side, at least we know he showers.
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Maybe "Tapioca Ed" could be renamed "Burlingame Ed," in honor of where he really hangs out. Or to be more hip and modern, it could be, say, "Tapioca-Burlingame Ed."
Historically, San Francisco has had a sort of colonial relationship with San Mateo County (running the Airport, leading in utility administration). So it is a bit of irony that now San Mateo County has a representative on the S. F. Board of Supervisors...
It would be interesting to talk to Ed Jew's wife, to find out why she prefers living in Burlingame.
Well, as a some-years resident of neighboring San Bruno, I can tell you why we're abandoning our big-ass home there and moving to a tiny rental in Girly-Game: Excellent public schools, no $15000/yr private school tuition bill... and San Brunos is just a lowly non-descript suburb. Imagine how bad it is with the school situ in SF. Parents who want to guarantee their kid goes to a school with marginally acceptable test scores and extracurriculars are out of luck - and you have to BEG and offer reach-around to get into private school of any kind there. Pretty powerful incentive to move to a place where the schools are free and the API scores are consistently 99%. Yeah yeah test scores schmest scores who cares, right? Well, PARENTS CARE!!! As for the residency scandal, I say hangin's too good for him. If I lived in Jew's district I'd be pretty pissed too.