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All eyes are on Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, where Kamala Harris will be officially anointed as the party’s presidential nominee. With San Francisco’s unprecedented ties to this year’s election, Examiner politics reporter Adam Shanks will be in the Windy City all week for continuing coverage from the DNC.
At the center of the movement is Chiu, who has been working the phone lines and says he’s ready to pound the pavement in support of Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee whom he has backed since her first run for San Francisco district attorney. Chiu’s event, which included appearances by prominent elected officials and actors such as Ken Jeong and B.D. Wong, saw about 20,000 people tune in to boost Harris’ election efforts.The flurry of activity is due in large part to Harris’ ascension to the top of the Democratic ticket. If elected, Harris would be the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to serve as president.
Though Chiu and other Asian American Democrats say they are aghast at Trump’s behavior, Asian Americans are not a monolith and are twice as likely as other groups to“Asian Americans are the quintessential swing voter group,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, the founder and executive director of AAPI Data, told The Times.
Breed told The Examiner in an interview last week she is backing the proposed reestablishment of the Deferred Retirement Option Program for San Francisco police officers. The DROP measure, to be voted on in November as Proposition F, would give police officers an incentive to delay their retirements.There are more than 100 officers eligible for retirement “waiting to see if something like this will actually pass,” Breed said, explaining her support for Prop. F.
The proposals both center on the retirement benefits of emergency responders. They could cost The City millions of dollars at a time when its budget deficit continues to grow, with no easy fix in sight. Both measures are heading for the ballot as mayoral and supervisorial candidates hope to earn the support of voters — as well as the backing of the powerful firefighters and police officers unions.
Breed does not view it as contradictory to support one department’s retirement measure and not the other’s. One big reason for that: The DROP program must be reevaluated by supervisors after five years, but the firefighters measure would make a permanent change to their retirement system, she noted.But the mayor has another reason for opposing Prop. H: It would be retroactive, applying to every firefighter hired after 2012.
San Francisco residents voted in a previous DROP program with 2008’s Proposition B. That measure allowed officers who were at least 50 years old and had at least 25 years of service to stay on the job while their retirement benefits were deposited in an interest-bearing account. The City abandoned the program in 2011 amid cost concerns after the city controller estimated it would be cheaper to train and hire new cops than keep older ones on board.
Simon spoke with The Examiner in Chicago just hours before speaking in front of a national audience at the Democratic National Convention. Having worked in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office for more than five years — from 2005 to 2010 — under Harris, Simon is as well-equipped to speak about Harris’ record as San Francisco district attorney as anyone.
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