Is John Hamasaki fit to serve as San Francisco’s top cop?

From tax liens to credit card lawsuits, the district attorney candidate’s personal finances are a mess; plus, an updated district attorney endorsement

“That ‘if’ is doing a lot of work. Just pay some damn taxes, bro.”— District attorney candidate John Hamasaki to Elon Musk in a since-deleted tweet Much has been made of former San Francisco police commissioner and current district attorney candidate John Hamasaki’s deletion of nearly 9,000 off-the-rails Twitter posts, but nothing has been said about his personal financial woes, which should definitely be considered when someone is running to be the top cop of a major city. In fact, public records reveal Hamasaki has a long history of not paying his bills. Besides being a harbinger of one’s character, why is this important? Because any person in a position of immense power is susceptible to corruption — and having thousands of dollars in personal debt puts them at even... Read More