"What Ed did or didn't do is a subject of a court case. But why is Quickly allowed to be here in violation of statutes? How are they doing it?" Hanlon asked. "They are clearly a chain store that gets supplied by and delivered to by a main store, and more of them have opened up since Ed had this problem."
Peskin replied to Hanlon's comment by telling us that "Stuart Hanlon can go fuck himself. The guy shouldn't be using my name as he does, and if he and his client had any idea how law worked, Ed would not be in a deep pile of trouble. The Planning Department is fully aware of all the violations of Quicklys throughout San Francisco, including my district. The fact that the Planning Department is not doing their job with speed and alacrity has nothing to do with us lawmakers."
When we called the Quickly franchise, a woman gave us a nonworking fax number for the 331 Clement store. When we asked to speak to the relevant Quickly owners, she told us, "Stores are individually owned, so we are not sure about that.
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Finally, one often overlooked aspect of government regulation, no matter how benign, no matter how good the intentions behind its enactment are, is that it can lead to corruption opportunities for unscrupulous politicians or government bureaucrats. Here you had a scumbag of a politician trying to shake down a business for $80,000 to fix a problem he had no authority to even get involved in.
And I would not be surprised if Ed Jew's extortion scam is the only one out there made possible by this so-called "Small Business Protection Act." In reality, a better name might be the "Big Chain Shakedown Enablement Act."
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