It’s not like we can expect the MAGA billionaires who are taking over San Francisco government to be honest or ethical.

In reply to Gary.

Gary,

I’m a low bandwidth AI groupie and it will get worse quickly.

Harari says that Language is the Operating System of Humanity and that AI has ‘hacked it’ and can possibly use their superior speed to enslave us.

David Shapiro says that:

“Truth is fish and words are the net.”

This is getting more interesting all the time.

Glad I have stable housing kinda and income kinda, a working big screen, and popcorn.

Niners win in Overtime and Valencia under my window goes mad !

h.

So we have lawyers evaluating lawyers. What could possibly go wrong with that? No profession is more honest, admirable, and ethical than lawyers. We can totally trust their recommendations are made considering only the public interest and not the financial interests, aspirations, privileges, or the remuneration lawyers are awarded by judges. In fact since lawyers are so impartial and objective, we should allow only lawyers to be jurors.

I carefully listened to Judge Begert at the County Fair building presentation. He spent a lot of time describing absolutely nothing about his judicial temperament, a key aspect of how judges are supposed to be evaluated. He certainly didn’t demonstrate oral communication skills, a quality superior court judges are required to have.

In reply to S.

GOP?? You mean moderate democrats.
But you progressive criminal justice Chesa footmen care more about drug deals from Honduras then the good sf citizens who deserve safely over a criminals rights.

In reply to Gary.

Mmm. At the macro level, if you are righteous, it would be complicated for your opponents to misrepresent reality. But that is not what is happening here; this judge has opened a corridor for right-wing challengers to achieve their goals. He did so by releasing Fentanyl drug dealers multiple times. It is a fact, and not a lie, that he released Nicol Palma in 2021 and 2022. Now, voters are listening, to misinformation or not.

In reply to SF public defender and proud.

Fair comment, public defender, but which are the ones that are incompetent? Beyond that, which ones don’t believe or practice bail, so defendants are free to offend again? That is one thing, of several, that get people upset and they want to know more about. Who else is providing any kind of information about the judges?

In reply to donaldsf.

Donald — 

There’s a link in there. You missed it. Among other things.

JE

I worked with one of the Republican candidates and I wouldn’t vote for him if you paid me. Judge Begert does a good job in a hard court – the CARE court. The GOP challenge to these judges is based on vapor and a total lack of comprehension of what CARE courts do under CA law.

I have read the report card. The report card grades are given based on how these judges have ruled and sentenced people in felony cases. Also, it reports how many times felons who were released by these judges commited other crimes. This can predict whether these judges made our streets more or less safe. Curiously, you have chosen to focus your entire article on the comment section of the report card which is actually a minor part of the report card. It would’ve been nice for you to put a link to the report card in your article. That way people might be able to make their mind their own mind up about the report card.

At a macro level, this is just another example of what happens when people become dogmatic: That is the spirit of righteousness absolves them of any crime, any ethics issue, any intentional foible in misrepresenting the facts or out-and-out lying, in their zeal to achieve their goals. It is what I most detest in the YIMBY movement, GrowSF and the other tech-CEO and Republican funded political organizations.

Make no mistake, the biggest threat to democracy is misinformation and this is clearly misinformation.

Great reporting Joe! I was one of the public defenders who got one of these surveys and ignored it cause Stop Crime S.F. has a clear biased agenda and doesn’t care about justice, truth or the law. Why engage with a group that has decided on an outcome in advance? That just legitimizes them. This is a racist tough on crime war on drugs pushing group. I have my issues with all the judges on the bench often when they rule against my clients but the only ones who deserve to be kicked out are the incompetent ones who don’t follow the law and rule with a predetermined outcome… just like StopCrimeSF.

Worth noting that their handpicked candidates didn’t even respond to the written questions and interview with the Bar Association of San Francisco (who uses the questionnaire used by the state Judicial Nominees Evaluation, so a fairly rigorous evaluation). BASF said they reached out several times. So they blew off BASF but they’re promoting unsourced “yelp” style anonymous reviews? This is not serious. Reflects poorly on the so-called “moderates.”

Ahahaha wonderful article. So glad to know where to go if I need good data from a “professional survey researcher.” Sobering to think how many people will be making decisions based on this high quality research, but as they say, it is what it is!