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San Francisco sheriff loses re-election bid amid 'sanctuary city' controversy
Published November 04, 2015FoxNews.com
 

San Francisco sheriff loses election bid in landslide
 

Embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi convincingly lost his bid for re-election Tuesday after spending months in the national spotlight as the face of his city's controversial "sanctuary city" policy on illegal immigration.

Mirkarimi, 54, was defeated by Vicki Hennessy, a former sheriff's official who had the endorsement of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and the sheriff deputies association. With 42 percent of precincts reporting, Henessy had received 63 percent of the vote to 31 percent for Mirkarimi.

Mirkarimi and his office received heavy criticism after Mexican illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle on San Francisco's waterfront July 1. Sanchez had been released from Mirkarimi's jail in March even though federal immigration officials had requested that he be detained for possible deportation.

San Francisco declared itself a sanctuary city in 1989, passing an ordinance that bans city officials from enforcing immigration laws or asking about immigration status unless required by law or court order. A follow-up ordinance in 2013 allows detention only under a court order targeting violent felons. Last month, San Francisco's board of supervisors unanimously approved a resolution to maintain the city's sanctuary status.

San Francisco and other cities and counties have routinely ignored requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officals to keep people in custody. The jurisdictions say they can't hold arrestees beyond their scheduled release dates without probable cause.

Hennessy has previously said the sheriff's order barring the San Francisco jail from cooperating with immigration officials is misguided. There are cases, she said, when federal immigration officials should be notified that the jail is about to release an inmate who is in the country illegally.

Since Steinle's death, Mirakimi's oversight of the department had been plagued by other high-profile mishaps and controversies. He had his driver's license briefly suspended for failing to properly report a minor accident while driving a department-issued car, and he also flunked a marksmanship test.

Before those two incidents, a drug gang leader escaped from jail, and guards were accused of staging and gambling on inmate fights.

In November 2014, Mirkarimi was forced to apologize for the bungled search for a San Francisco General Hospital patient whose body was found in a stairwell weeks after she wandered from her room. The sheriff is in charge of the hospital's security, but deputies didn't search the building until nine days after her disappearance. The city paid the patient's family $3 million to settle a lawsuit.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/04/san-francisco-sheriff-loses-re-election-bid-amid-sanctuary-city-controversy/?intcmp=hpbt2
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Offline evadR

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Sanity in California???
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Sanity in California???

Nah. If I recall the real sturm and drang was over allegations of domestic violence.
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Sanity in California???

Temporary sanity, no doubt.

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:::sigh::: yes.
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Lots of things to smile about today!   :patriot:
Character still matters.  It always matters.

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Nah. If I recall the real sturm and drang was over allegations of domestic violence.
Wasn't that known before he was elected?


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Wasn't that known before he was elected?

Don't think so. I believe the Mayor suspended him, but the Bd. of Supes brought him back.
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San Francisco is the first place in the US to explode a neutron bomb.

Keep the beautiful city and scenery, wipe out the entire population.
Roy Moore's "spiritual warfare" is driving past a junior high without stopping.

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San Francisco is the first place in the US to explode a neutron bomb.

Keep the beautiful city and scenery, wipe out the entire population.
D.C. is first.


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Don't think so. I believe the Mayor suspended him, but the Bd. of Supes brought him back.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/14/new-san-francisco-sheriff-charged-with-domestic-violence/

It was last new years eve.


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D.C. is first.

Nah.  I like going to San Francisco.  Been to Washington DC once, never again.
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Nah.  I like going to San Francisco.  Been to Washington DC once, never again.
I have been to both many times. Last time in D.C. when my father was buried at arlington. He had a caisson I still get tears over that.