By Luke Thomas
January 9, 2011, 12:07 pm
Mayor Gavin Newsom has just announced he will swear in San Francisco’s new District Attorney today at 2 pm at City Hall.
Though Newsom has not indicated who has accepted the appointment to replace former DA Kamala Harris, insiders believe Assistant District Attorney Paul Henderson is the likely appointee.
Update, 1:25 pm: CBS5 is reporting SFPD Police Chief George Gascon will be named by Newsom to replace Harris.
SFPD Chief George Gascon (left) was recently spotted seated next to former mayor Willie Brown, Newsom Chief of Staff Steve Kawa, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, Supervisor Jane Kim and Rose Pak, during a banquet honoring Jane Kim. Photo by Luke Thomas.
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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January 11, 2011 at 8:37 am
P.S.@Robert; thnx; didn’t notice that till after I’d posted the KPFA News. I wrote to ask Anthony Fest who told him this was legally questionable. Even if it is, there’s likely to be overwhelming legal muscle and budget on the other side.
January 11, 2011 at 8:34 am
I just took a few minutes to go back and listen to this and clipped it out of the Sunday KPFA News: http://www.anngarrison.com/images/mp3s/gasconweekendnews.mp3
All they said is that this is legally questionable, not who says so or whether anyone’s questioning it.
January 10, 2011 at 11:35 am
Apt description, from Ann elsewhere: “political royals”.
Sly, slick, and wicked– normal rules of expected conduct don’t apply.
Convenient time to bump Gascon to his next privileged position?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27235.htm
January 10, 2011 at 7:43 am
Jim Hammer demolishes Gascón in November.
-marc
January 9, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Unfortunately, KPFA News is not segmented, labeled, tagged, and posted to the Web where it can be found in Google Search, unless I do it, which drives me to endless distraction, and I don’t have time to do this, but here’s the entire half hour broadcast, from their website:
http://kpfa.org/archive/id/66666
January 9, 2011 at 10:30 pm
KPFA News reported this evening that the appointment might be legally questionable because Newsom’s maneuver, staying her to control the mayoral and DA succession, was legally questionable.
January 9, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Oh. My. God.
Please tell me this is a joke, Luke.