OPINION: In his latest column, gilduran76 writes that 'from the very moment she entered the public arena, Jenkins was bending the truth to benefit herself.' 'In Jenkins’ world, reality seems to depend on her own personal definitions of words.'
Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco’s interim district attorney, spent most of this year hiding behind a thinly veiled lie. While posing as a volunteer for the campaign to recall her predecessor, she was secretly rolling in fat consulting fees from a nonprofit linked to the same right-wing billionaire behind the recall.
“For me, the two were so separate,” Jenkins said in an interview with the Chronicle. “And the fact that I was doing separate work for them was irrelevant.” The Chronicle wrote that Jenkins’ nonprofit work involved “analyzing the impact of Proposition 47, the 2014 ballot measure that lowered penalties for many property and drug crimes in California and ignited fierce debate.” It’s not clear why Jenkins, who is not a policy expert, would be qualified to provide such analysis at such a high rate of pay.
I looked into the case after it was mentioned in a Chronicle story that introduced Jenkins as a “progressive” prosecutor who simply could not tolerate the incompetent management of the DA’s office. Fully expecting to find that Boudin had blown the case, I found instead a tragic story about a young man who killed his mother after a well-documented downward spiral into serious mental illness.
“…I think it’s very easy for people to kind of say ‘war on drugs’ because it’s just something that that rings a bell in people’s heads more so than them actually being able to specifically highlight any similarity between the war on drugs and what I’m actually talking about doing,” Jenkins told the Chronicle, rejecting the idea that her war on drugs is … a war on drugs.
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