Please go away.

La Casa de las Madres??? Check out charity navigator..

six figure salary for miz black...123,345.00 a year..
that could actually help some actually beaten women.

and she voted to reinstate as she thought his termination wouldn't hold up in court. So there's your courage for you.

LOL at you giving advice - to anyone - about anything. Your paper has been backing losers consistently for years, and it's gotten progressively worse (no pun intended).

I didn't see it at first, either, but after thinking about it, i'm certain this is Ed Lee/Rose Pak/Willie Brown long game rather than an act of courage on the part of Olague and Kim.

It's not possible that Kim and Olague would actually go rogue on the mayor, as it appears on the surface with this vote. Enrique Pearce (founder of the Run Ed Run campaign, and the political consultant / architect behind Kim and Olague) and his cohort, David Ho (burgeoning Chinatown power broker), are connected at the hip to Rose Pak and by extension Mayor Lee. Kim's and Olague's votes were absolutely cleared by the higher ups, Pak and Lee, not acts of courage.

It was never important that Lee win the Board vote on the Mirkarimi issue. The real point of the Mayor's crusade to bring a vote to the Board was as an election season wedge issue, one that would have been brutal for the likes of John Avalos, had his Pak/Lee-backed opponent not turned out to live outside the district. Perhaps it was when it became clear that Pak/Lee were in danger of losing Olague's seat in District 5, that they realized they could make the whole situation work to their long term advantage in an even bigger way by actually losing the vote at the Board.

With the Mirkarimi matter not being put to rest at the Board on Tuesday, and with the recall campaign set to begin any moment now, the Mayor and his downtown backers will have the gift of a very potent wedge issue that keeps on giving. The Chronicle, in particular, will be able to talk about the "wife beater" and his progressive supporters for the next several months -- through the November 2013 election, at least. Now this issue will be an albatross around the neck of progressives for much longer than it would have had the mayor won his vote.

Sure the loss appears embarrassing to the mayor. But how bad will it actually hurt him? Very little, if at all, I suspect. He still got the majority 7 votes. It's early in his term. He gets to claim "he's above politics" while the "crazy progressives" on the Board are supporting "wife beaters". The cops, the realtors, and the developers will pour tons of money into a recall campaign. There will be a relentless barrage of mailers and TV ads painting Avalos and Campos as monsters and the mayor as a principled humanitarian.

Meanwhile, Olague, for the first time, actually gets to look truly independent of the mayor and may have a fighting chance to win in D5. Her vote, of course, totally helps her in D5, a district that voted overwhelmingly against Ed Lee last year and almost never votes for machine candidates. She would have been toast had she voted with Lee. The "cruel" texts from Winniker calling her ungrateful are media plants designed to convince us that Olague has really broken off from the mayor. It simply isn't true. It's a ruse.

Kim voted with Olague (with her *very* carefully-worded legal rationale) to give Olague cover so that she wouldn't be the only woman who voted against the domestic violence advocates, etc. Again, Kim and Olague are directly linked to the Enrique Pearce/ David Ho power circle, and all of them are allies with Rose Pak and the Mayor. All strategy is coordinated. We all know this.

You'll notice Kim has publicly called for a recall campaign, which of course is the whole goal here, to have a recall campaign that hurts the Mayor's opponents for months to come. Kim's call for a recall campaign is also how she successfully distances herself from the progressive "wife-beater supporters," Avalos and Campos. She can say she voted to reinstate Ross, but only because of her legal obligations. Through this she implies that unlike Avalos and Campos, she really is against domestic violence and wants to see Ross out of office, but based on legal principles, she couldn't, out of good conscience, vote him out at the Board.

See how this works? Brilliant. And it's tough to recognize unless you actually know the characters in this scheme and the power relationships behind the scenes.

If you’re Ed Lee, what’s more important: saving face and ousting the sheriff, or saving your appointed District 5 supervisor? Word on the street is that Mayor Lee needed Olague’s votes for his big development projects over the next four years. There’s billions of dollars at stake there. Ed Lee’s ego isn’t worth losing those luxury towers.

Strike up a conversation with anyone in any part of the city and people are sick of the BOS and the obvious greed and corruption which has fueled this sudden unbridled growth and the complete dishonesty with which City Hall deals with it's constituents. When it suits them, we live in a transit first city, but when their developer backers want luxury condos on Washington Street, voila, a 400 car parking lot, no problem. There are new condos going up all over the city, almost one construction site per block in the upper Market area. And Weiner wants to issue more licenses for retail liquor stores in the Mission. Who is paying him off now?
More condos that no one but new comers from other cities and counties can afford. An all out war on preservation with Weiner at the helm and the Mayor's right hand man is a Republican. And for the record, no one in their right mind believes that man currently occupying the mayor's office has a 60% mandate, Give me a break, his votes came from one neighborhood and they were collected by his goons from non-English speaking under-educated immigrants from a country where voting never had any real consequences. It's voter fraud is what is it, and the dragon lady that speaks for the six companies in Chinatown is the real power here. She wanted a poorly planned and very expensive subway, which doesn't connect with any other trains, and we got it.
This current batch of political hacks and cronies came in to power suddenly and caught people by surprise, but they have wasted no time in permanently transforming this city almost over night while lining their own pockets and ignoring the lessons learned from the last bubble. The only good thing is that they have awakened the electorate, those of us who go to work on a Muni system that is falling apart, yet they never seriously do anything to fix it, all this in a transit first city. While they go to work in their black SUV's the rest of us are realizing that we have thieves and liars in City Hall. Much more than usual, This is the most corrupt group of people I have seen in power and I have lived here since Feinstein was mayor.
Their time is coming. Soon. But I really wish WEINER was up for reelection now. Weiner is a dick

I totally agree with the analysis by Fool Me Once, above.

Olague's vote was a profile in intelligence, not courage. I'll take it, but let's not kid ourselves. If anything, she voted the way she did out of fear, not courage -fear of having her ass handed to her in November.

As for Jane Kim... when everybody was praising her for doing the right thing, along with her "thoughtful" reasoning, I said from the start that her reasoning sounded more duplicitous than thoughtful. Then she came out with that email to her constituents, instantly squandering the goodwill she just built with progressives. That made no sense at all to me, because Kim is not dumb. She's extremely cunning, ruthlesslessly calculating, and every single thing she does is done with an eye toward her political future. On the surface this made no sense; this analysis is the first one I've heard which actually explains her bizarre behavior in a way that makes sense.

This whole sad affair was never really about domestic violence, at issue was yet another incidence of selective law enforcement and an egregious abuse of political power that could have set a dangerous precedent for future such machiavellian manipulations. Hopefully the legislation will now be revisited and revised in order to prevent a recurrence of this particular type of attack on the democratic process, what little remains, and the right of the voters to elect their representatives. Like many of us, I think, our reaction was not primarily in defense of Ross Mirkarimi personally or of his actions; violence of any kind, foreign or domestic, is not acceptable; but rather an attempt to ensure that there is equality and justice for all. Regardless of our political persuasions we all benefit from this guarantee, except maybe those few who have the power to manipulate the law in their own self interest. The final vote was a little surprising. There was never much doubt as to which way many would vote. Chiu simply clarified that he knows which side his bread is buttered. Farrell, to his credit, at least acknowledged the 'slippery slope'. Cohen... how the hell did she manage to get elected!!. I think it was fortuitous that Olague was up first. Her statement was powerful, thoughtful and she probably had the most difficult challenge. She rose to the occasion. She also 'gave cover' to all those following, which made Mar's vote even more disappointing. However I still hope for his re-election as the alternatives are disturbing at best. The latest rumors of David Lee's possible violations of election law are troubling, but then he's just following his namesake's example, maybe they can recycle the stencils. Avalos and Campos were steadfast in their votes and appropriate in their criticisms. Kim was 'surprising', her questioning of the lawyers was impressive, as was her pre-vote statement. Her subsequent support of a re-call was consistent with the views she expressed.
To all those who voted in favor of removing an elected official on the grounds of 'official misconduct', I hope they will demonstrate that they made their decision based on ethical principle and not political expediency. There is a backlog of complaints that have been buried and never seen the sunshine. I suggest they might start by requesting an investigation into possible perjury committed by the Mayor in the course of these proceedings; also documented video evidence of probable violations of election law that occured during his election campaign. But I'm not making book on it happening.
Once again many thanks to Ben Hur, probably the only one coming up smelling like a rose from this cesspit down at the Hall of Smoke and Mirrors.
Just my thruppence.
GO GIANTS.
GO 49ers.
A's look good for next year.
VOTE YES ON PROP 37.
VOTE NO ON PROP 32.
PIGASUS FOR PRESIDENT
Overturn Citizens United.

You actually support a RECENTLY CONVICTED violent criminal offender being Sheriff of San Francisco ?? Are you insane ??

The man pleaded guilty to a charge of false imprisonment ! And that only to worm out of being CONVICTED for domestic violence, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness charges.

We don't need that kind of trash in any public office, CERTAINLY NOT in law enforcement.