December 14, 2007
Oh No, Ed Jew!: Straight Hardball
Goodbye, Ed Jew's attorney Steven Gruel! The revolving door that is beleaguered former District 4 Supervisor Ed Jew's legal team spins once again, depositing the pugnacious Mr. Gruel on the street and leaving the team's latest addition Stuart Hanlon (hired to replace Bill Fazio in the state criminal case) in charge of all of Ed's legal matters. Gruel, as you may recall, was handling Ed's case on the city ethics charges and the federal racketeering claims, but now Hanlon will have all of Ed's cases. Busy man, Stuart Hanlon.
We'll miss Mr. Gruel, who reliably provided this column with a vast cornucopia of material, from the time Gruel accused City Attorney Dennis Herrera of racism because Ed Jew's "neighbors" were white or claiming it was unconstitutional to bring ethics charges against Ed, all the way back to saying it was okay for Ed to go to China when all this news broke. We're very sorry to see you go, Mr. Gruel!
Gruel, for what it's worth, says communications between him and Ed were okay (in contrast to former attorney Bill Fazio, who had to quit because Ed stopped speaking to him), but that he and Ed were starting to have "clear differences of opinion" about how to proceed in the case. Gruel declined to explain further what those differences were, citing legal ethics rules, but said, "I was hired to go to war and that's essentially what I was doing. He wants to view other litigation strategies in lieu of straight hardball." Do you smell a plea bargain coming up?
Picture of Steven Gruel from the EdJew.net website, which still calls him the District 4 Supervisor.
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Will the comedy never end...
Good old Honest Ed. Dragging out the proceedings, playing on technicalities and using good old fashioned junkie logic and everyone's pal, Denial, to deny that he's up the creek sans paddle.
Meanwhile, Sup. Chu is doing the work and getting the job done. Interesting that the guy elected by the people and that crazy IRV is a crook and the appointed Supervisor is just focused on helping the constituents of District 4. What's up with that, D4 voters????
My wife and I were fearful that there would be a drought of "Oh No, Ed Jew" items before the holidays. My reading them aloud to Mrs. SYFer and our small child has become a rich family tradition. You can imagine our delight at seeing this latest.
In the spirit of the holiday season therefore, we wish to thank SFist, our putative neighbor Ed Jew, his ever-dwindling legal team and all of the city, state and federal officials who have brought us so many entertaining moments over the course of 2007. May we all enjoy an exciting, litigious and action-packed 2008! Huzzah!
I too, raise a Quickly in toast.
Happy Holidays Ed. Enjoy 'em while they last.
@Sangfroid: There should be a District 4 Holiday Party featuring bobba tea. After all, Jew managed to remind the rest of the city that the Sunset *is* a legitimate part of the city.
I'll be toasting out by the beach.
I live in Burlingame and was thinking of running for Ed's seat. Can I bunk at someone's house in the Sunset, or at least say I did?
I live in Burlingame and was thinking of running for Ed's seat. Can I bunk at someone's house in the Sunset, or at least say I did?
Greg:
Ed Jew only got about 24% of the vote and actually came in second. But thanks to Jew's (racist) campaign insistence that Chinese voters should vote Chinese across the board combined with the magic of ranked choice voting, Jew squeaked in.
Don't be too hard on District 4 voters. It could have been worse. We could have elected Chris Daly.
Oh Yes! Another Oh No!
/been jonesin'