To the Editor:

I agree with Randy Shaw; I personally feel the media has spent too much time reporting on the Republican Party's primary process than taking up other more important issues, such as the Euro and economic crisis in Europe and even the French election. I have even stopped watching Rachel Maddow, and Chris Mathews. Mathews is equalivant of FOX news in my opinion. I stooped watching him long time ago. American press and media very deficient in its reporting. We need more articles like this one to get the facts out to the people.

Tony Santos
San Leandro, CA



To the Editor:

Leon Chow on the SF Board of Supervisors!!!??? This is a joke, right? I'm not sure whether to laugh or vomit. The SFBOS has had a lot of characters on it over the years, but a union‑busting, lying SCAB? Really? Only in the corrupt, twisted mind of SEIU is this possible. Aside from being a scab, Chow is basically unqualified by the fact that he's a pathetic and gutless worm. First time somebody sneezes, Leon will be falling out of his chair in a panic and soiling his trousers!

Charlie Ridgell
Oakland, CA



To the Editor:

I give kudos to the designer of the anti‑domestic violence billboard and those who funded it. They took an ill‑advised comment by Ross Mirkarimi ‑‑ it's a "private matter" ‑‑ and made it into a valuable teaching moment. Will Eliana Lopez return from Venezuela to testify for Mirkarimi before the Ethics Commission?

Ralph E. Stone
San Francisco



To the Editor:

I am a victim of childhood domestic violence, as well as marital domestic violence in the 1960’s when no one cared. If the neighbors saw you with a black eye, they just said “Oh, he hits her” and went inside to have coffee and talk about you. I still suffer from the repercussions of being constantly punched in the head, under the hair, so so one could see, where each lump hurt as one’s facial muscles moved to speak.

I agree that the DA should have the power to prosecute domestic violence cases where the victim is too afraid to press charges, but that power is being misused here. I know in my gut that grabbing someone’s arm during an argument when they turn to leave is a human reaction, not domestic violence.

If the Ethics Commission is truly ethical, they will not remove Ross Mirkarimi from his duly elected position as Sheriff of San Francisco!It should be obvious to anyone with common sense that this is a political ploy to get rid of the first progressive in San Francisco to be elected in a city-wide election. I’m sure folks have access to and have read all the articles about Gascon not prosecuting domestic violence cases, about Fire Chief Joanna Hayes-White’s husband actually calling 911 himself saying that he feared for his own safety as well as the safety of his children, yet that was called a “family matter.”

And shouldn’t Gavin Newsom have been removed from office for having sex with his best friend’s wife on a desk in city hall? But hey, he was drunk and high on coke, so it was ok. Ross Mirkarimi was not drunk or high on coke, but he should be removed from office because he is passionate? San Francisco and the media have torn his family apart, a family that surely would have benefitted from and agreed to go to counseling. This has been blown way out of proportion.

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi does not deserve to lose his job because he and his wife had an argument. If this were common practice, we would be without political leaders! Please, do not let yourselves be caught up in this political witch hunt.

Terrrie Frye
San Francisco Tenderloin



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