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October 19th, 2011
SHOCK-POLITICIAN MIRKARIMI WILL SAY ANYTHING TO GET VOTES
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Sheriff’s Captain Paul Miyamoto today urged voters to reject City Hall Politician Ross Mirkarimi’s campaign of using sensational ideas to earn headlines and votes.
Miyamoto was referring to Mirkarimi’s recent proposals to give special class status to ex-convicts in hiring and rental housing.
Miyamoto continued:
“As a 15 year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department under Mike Hennessey, I too want to continue San Francisco’s progressive focus on the education, treatment and rehabilitation of offenders. That means we offer them alternatives to hard time in order to help them return to society as productive individuals.
“What politician Ross Mirkarimi is proposing via legislation is not fair treatment but special treatment. If sincere, his ideas are unfair to hard working, law abiding residents of San Francisco and would needlessly coddle at risk individuals to whom we in the Department are trying to teach more responsible behavior.
Miyamoto also said that a similar proposal to Mirkarimi’s recent idea to reward businesses with a $10,000 tax credit to hire ex-offenders is already in place in appropriate targeted areas of the City under the Enterprise Zone program using Work Opportunity Tax Credit federal funds.
Targeted programs to give appropriate assistance to released offenders are already in place. These programs are focused, fair to all and require accountability from the ex-offenders. They are sound foundations for future.
“I simply believe that while simply creating a new protected class of ex-felons may make for great headlines, it makes for unfair advantages.
“I hope voters of all ideologies can understand this basic principle and I hope that on Election Day they find a better choice in me – a 15 year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department who has done the hard work beyond the headlines to make San Francisco safe.”
