The Sheriff who couldn't shoot straight

Ross Mirkarimi was elected sheriff of San Francisco, California in November 2011. Before him, only two incumbent SF sheriffs had lost re-election in the last 60 years, but with any luck, Mirkarimi will be the third. 

Ross is arguably the worst person to be sheriff of any large city, let alone a small one-horse-town, and he faces a tough fight on Tuesday.

Mirkarimi was not endorsed by the SF Deputy Sheriff's Association, the union representing sheriffs. Instead, they endorsed Capt. Paul Miyamoto by 353 votes to Mirkarimi's 2 votes (probably by his relatives). Don Wilson, president of the association said "Miyamoto is a very popular guy in our department. We want one of our own to be sheriff. We want someone with experience."

Unfortunately, like the 2008 presidential election, the guy without experience and ability won. 

He served as sheriff from January to March 2012, and at that time was charged with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness in connection with the Dec. 31, 2011 New Year's Eve altercation with his wife. The Mayor of SF, Ed Lee suspended him from office pending an ethics investigation.

Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to one count of false imprisonment but, according to the city charter, he only received 7 of the 9 required votes from city supervisors to remove him from office. The alleged wife-beater was reinstated in Oct. 2012.

So who is this sheriff, a guy who failed to qualify with a firearm and thus was prohibited from carrying one after failing a marksmanship test? A guy whose drivers license had been suspended? 

Let's take a walk down Leftist Lane .  .  .

Little Ross Mirkarimi was born Aug. 4, 1961 (the 'upside-down year') in Chicago, to a 19 year old Russian-Jewish mother, Nancy Lolman, and Iranian-born father, Hamid Mirkarimi. They divorced when Ross was 5, and he moved to Jamestown, Rhode Island with his mother. His father was out of the picture for the most part.

Ross went to Bishop Hendrickson High School an all-male Catholic institution and graduated in 1979. "I totally credit my childhood in Jamestown for my green views," the alleged wife-beater said. 

He founded the California Green Party in 1990 and coordinated Ralph Nader's totally unsuccessful presidential campaign.

Mirkarimi lived in San Francisco since 1984 and graduated from the SF Police Academy in 2009, the same year he sired a son with his wife, Eliana Lopez, a Venezuelan serial-drama actress.

In 2008, Mirkarimi supported Barack Obama and went from Green Party to the Democratic Party because he never let his ideology interfere with his need to get elected.

On April 20, 2008 he was honored by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and received the Rufus King Award for outstanding leadership in the reform of marijuana laws and the best damn munchies in the room.

He gave a speech at that award ceremony using this impossibly long and somewhat demented run-on sentence:

"That particular logic (of being in favor of medicinal marijuana but not wanting dispensaries in the neighborhood in which you live), as complex as it is, was emblematic of what certainly concerned me, that we continue to drive back in the shadows the very idea of what we're all congregated her for, and that is to mainstream the issue so that marijuana should not be criminalized and medical cannabis should not be criminalized, and that we should do everything we can to build that kind of resiliency, to shore up even in the face of adversity, that while there's any attempt at pushback or blowback from our efforts to try to proliferate Prop 215 states throughout all fifty states of the United States, that we should not shrink at all with that ever particular kind of adversity once again." 

Seriously, Mirkarimi said that. Perhaps he was stoned at the time.

Now Mirkarimi's office has been under the gun since the illegal Mexican alien was accused of shooting Kate Steinle this summer. The shooter was released from Mirkarimi's jail in spite of federal immigration officials requesting he be detained due to previous arrests.

Now he's running for another term as sheriff; his opponent is Vicki Hennessy, 62 and a retired sheriff's official. She has never run for any elected position before, but is hoping to capitalize on Mirkarimi's obvious incompetence, poor judgment and abusive nature toward women and the laws of our land.

"The department needs leadership. It needs its credibility restored," Hennessy said. Even the mayor supports her.

The previous mayor Art Agnos endorsed Ross, pointing to the success of the jail's high school and reduction of the inmate population as his major accomplishment.

Sure the inmate population went down, but that led to the San Francisco crime rates to go up. If that's your definition of success, you might be a liberal. But at least the criminals were able to read the street names where they did their mugging, murder and raping.

Hennessy joined the sheriff's department in 1975 and was promoted to chief deputy, the third-highest ranking position in the office. She is married to a retired San Francisco cop. "I never expected to run," she said.

Mirkarimi and Eliana, his allegedly abused wife, campaign together at commuter train stops, coffee shops and marijuana dispensaries where they've been known to fire up the crowd, if you know what I mean.

Eliana was opposed of her husband's prosecution and used a "Hillary Tactic" saying the criminal case was politically motivated, and she had the bruises to prove it. "I am not a victim," said the victim Lopez. 

The main issue in the race for sheriff is the city's misguided policy of shielding illegal aliens from the jurisdiction of federal immigration officials. Mirkarimi is clearly breaking federal law and should be serving time in one of those empty cells he brags about.

Even Hillary Clinton agrees that he is wrong in his interpretation of the law--at least she does as of this writing, but tomorrow, who knows?

Since the shooting of Kate Steinle, Mirkarimi failed to properly report a minor accident while driving a department-issued car and his drivers's license was suspended.

In 2014, Mirkarimi had to apologize for a Keystone Kops search for a SF General Hospital patient whose body was found weeks after she went missing from her room. Mikarimi, as sheriff, is in charge of the hospital's security, but deputies failed to search the hospital until nine days elapsed since she was missing. She was found in the stairwell.

The city paid the patient's family $3 million to settle out of court.

Many political analysts believe Hennessy should win this election hands down. One consultant, Dan Newman, said "He [Mikirami] imploded before he started, then he continued with a string of screw ups."

That's putting it mildly.


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