Several news sources report that Ed Jew has won D-4 supervisorial race over Ron Dudum.
Ed Jew owns a family-owned florist shop in Chinatown. He was once the vice president of their Republican County Council. He has since switched to the Democratic Party. Congratulations to Ed and his family on his win.
Ed was involved in getting ER Taylor PTA’s reimbursed for funds that went missing by complaining to SFUSD and going public with the story. (An anonymous donor gave a donation to E.R. Taylor’s PTA for the same amount of the missing funds.) He also has been an advocate to get rid of the diversity index-especially for westside schools. At BOE meetings, Jew testified many times for Asian parents who were trying to get their children into Lincoln and other westside schools.
My guess is that Ed will vote consistently as Ma has done with the Mayor’s allies. But since the Mayor didn’t support him in his run, Jew will probably show more independence than Ma did in his legislation and some of his votes-at least initially.
So this would mean the same split that the BOS already has-Dufty, Alioto-Pier, Elsbernd and Jew on one side of the aisle and Daly, McGoldrick, Peskin, Sandoval, Maxwell and Mirkarimi on the other side of the aisle.
So the dynamics of the BOS hasn’t really changed with this election.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:08 am e
He used to be a Republican but now he’s a Democrat.
November 11th, 2006 at 10:53 am e
Actually, the state PTA has insurance and was already working with the E.R. Taylor PTA, Kim. Ed Jew just grabbed the opportunity to seize some free publicity by calling the press and portraying himself as their spokesman. E.R. Taylor (in the Portola District-and-that’s-pronounced-PORtola) is far from his westside turf, interestingly.
Another intriguing thing is that Jew’s primary interest seems to be the SFUSD assignment plan. Why didn’t he run for school board, then? Presumably because it “pays” a token pittance — it’s essentially a volunteer job — and BOS pays an actual salary. Interesting concept. He won’t have actual jurisdiction over the assignment plan — but for that matter, he won’t have to take flak about it, either.
November 12th, 2006 at 10:40 am e
Ed ran four years ago against Fiona Ma. But at the two debates that I attended for D-4 supervisor, the same question came up: “Do you support neighborhood schools?”
So school assignment is an issue in the Sunset-and Ed Jew used his advocacy stances as part of his platform and answer.
I think that Ed always wanted to run for D-4 Supervisor but he chosed opportunities where he would get the most amount of press when he worked on BOE issues.
November 14th, 2006 at 2:00 pm e
Had Mak not run, Jew’s win would have been much more decisive as the votes tend to be primarily raced based in this district.
“He used to be a Republican but now he’s a Democrat.”
Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
I don’t know Dundrum’s platform too well, but knowing Mak personally in high school, she would not have been a wise choice.
June 17th, 2007 at 5:10 pm e
And now i’m going to jail
June 19th, 2007 at 11:35 am e
You made your mistakes but you shouldn’t give up without fighting to make the Chinese community better understood instead of letting yourself be “driven out”!
Chinese have never been accepted as full participants in American society, and the model minority myth only perpetuates subservience.
The powers-that-be have jumped on your transgressions to take advantage for their own power plays.
Progressives do not acknowledge that district elections do not serve city-wide Chinese communities.
You could learn to listen and seek advice from mentors.