Public Defender Jeff Adachi. File photo by Luke Thomas.
By Luke Thomas
August 12, 2011
Public Defender Jeff Adachi today filed papers with San Francisco Department of Elections officially declaring his candidacy for mayor.
Adachi’s candidacy, whose pension reform initiative was certified August 2 for the November ballot, is expected to sharpen the focus on the issue of unsustainable city pension costs and the need for increased contributions by city employees.
His candidacy his also expected to further shake up a mayor’s race which has so far been overshadowed by interim Mayor Ed Lee’s entry into the race.
Adachi could not be reached for comment at the time of publishing.
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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August 13, 2011 at 3:59 am
Mission accomplished!
Obviously this changes my endorsements. Jeff’s number one far and away. I’ll watch with interest as the shrill trolls screech in agony like moldy vampires caught in the deathly glare of the morning sun.
Giants are making it interesting.
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August 12, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Every indication shows that Adachi has sold out to pursue high cynical power politics using the leverage of the global corporate assault to drastically cut social spending, wages, health care, benefits, and education, to enrich the elite power structure.
There is an all out war of the rich against the rest of us, and Adachi has joined the dark side of that war gambling to become wealthy and protected himself.
Ranking him at all is a dangerous mistake.
Anyone who is uncertain of this, should get a copy of Naomi Klein’s ‘Shock Doctrine’ and read it. Every word of it.
See: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Some Key Indications Of Adachi Corruption:
That Adachi worked with the utterly corrupt Joe Nation to craft ‘pension reform’ shows clearly that Adachi is now an enemy of progressives.
Joe Nation is bought and paid for by PG&E and tried to falsely paint Mark Leno as sympathetic to child molesters in his attempt to win an election against Leno; essentially in a blatant bid to become PG&E’s proxie in the California legislature?
Supporting Adachi when he is keeping such company is absurd.
Adachi’s Purposeful Prop B Maneuver To Flip Control Of City Hall To Downtown
If progressives foolishly get behind Adachi, it will continue to deepen the terrible and growing divide between labor and progressives in this town when we should be working together to unite behind people like Avalos and Baum.
This is exactly what Adachi’s prop B accomplished last November. That ballot measure was a brilliant divide and conquer maneuver by our enemies. Prop B was thrown into the election -on purpose- to completely drain labor away from getting into the trenches and fighting to help win elections for allies like Mandelman, Kelly, and Walker.
Instead, all of labor’s precious foot soldiers were forced to fight prop B and the result was that we -lost- the progressive majority on the Board of Supervisors; and then in very well planned short order, we lost control of City Hall itself to the Downtown machine.
This is serious business, it was not by any stretch of the imagination an accident, and it means that Adachi is now our enemy.
August 12, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Thank you Jeff Adachi- an alternative to ongoing City corruption!
August 12, 2011 at 3:47 pm
The new mayor of San Francisco Jeff Adachi!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 12, 2011 at 12:30 pm
It’s ironic that they only way Adachi could run for mayor is to pay the $5000 fee because he couldn’t get enough signatures and his campaign couldn’t get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot and had to lie to voters. Read the Chronicle article about his campaign’s crooked tactics and watch the proof for yourself here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=93123