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July 10, 2007

Oh No, Ed Jew!: Victory

edjewexam.jpgAlas, no, we don't have the YouTube clip of the guy singing the Ed Jew Borderline song yet (has anyone figured out what the heck is going on with Channel 26's programming right now?) -- but we can report that the Chron's back on the Ed Jew beat, hooray!

Tomorrow's report (up live now, which is why this post is going up when it is) is that Gavin Newsom said that he's considering options for getting Ed Jew out of office. We imagine Gavin giving this press conference while lying flat on the floor to ease his lower back pain (man, we don't wish lower back pain on anyone -- get well soon, Gavin!)

Gavin said that irrespective of the residency issues, he's very concerned that Ed seems to have admitted that he took a $40,000 bribe from the Quickly folks. It seems to us like there's still a disputed issue of fact about that, but yeah, maybe not so good of Ed to come out and say he took the money, huh?

Ed Jew's lawyer, hilariously, is now saying that this means that Newsom doesn't care about the residency issue, telling the Chron, "That's a victory on this front that we moved the mayor off of that issue and on to the next." Dear Ed Jew's lawyer: It is not a "victory" when the mayor of a major American city says he thinks your client accepted a $40,000 bribe. Sincerely yours, SFist.

Picture of an Ed Jew fang qi (resign) sticker on an Examiner news box sent in by a reader!


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Comments (5)

I saw the guy singing Borderline ... how do you spell drunk?

 

Ed Jew hired Baghdad Bob as his lawyer? That's genius!

 

I would love to know what the Feds are up to!

 

And...according to Ed Jew's sfgov website, "Ed and his wife live in the Sunset." I love it.

 

I would respectfully disagree with Mayor Newsom about the importance of an alleged bribe vs. the question of where Supervisor Ed Jew actually lives.

Let the Feds worry about the business of bribes, you should concentrate on the residence issue, because it goes to one of the basic elements of our representative democracy: fulfilling the legal requirements for holding office. And it is something that you can take action on, now or in a few weeks.

We do not need to wait for months and years for the results of a criminal bribery trial and the inevitable lengthly appeals.

 
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