Gerardo Sandoval

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Gerardo Sandoval is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Sandoval represents the 11th district of San Francisco, which encompasses the Excelsior neighborhood. In 2005, he ran for San Francisco Assesor, but lost to Phil Ting. Sandoval was first elected to the Board of Supervisors in December 2000, and was re-elected in November 2004, he is currently a Vice Chair of the Land Use Committee. In March of 2000 he was elected to the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee. He is a practicing attorney.

Contents 1 Education 2 Work Experience 3 Family & Community 4 Controversy 5 References 6 External reading

[edit] Education

Sandoval attended Saint Ignatius College Preparatory's brother school, Loyola High School, before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. In 1989 he received his Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley, with a specialization in real estate and housing development. He received his law degree from Columbia University in 1995.

[edit] Work Experience

Sandoval served as a Deputy Public Defender in the San Francisco Public Defender's Office for four years, representing clients in all types of felony cases. He also completed a three year term on San Francisco's Public Transportation Commission, an agency with over $350 million in expenditures and 3500 employees.

[edit] Family & Community

Sandoval's mother was a garment worker and homemaker. Except for his oldest brother, who is developmentally disabled, all of Gerardo's siblings graduated from college. Gerardo is the first in his family to receive an advanced degree.

He was in the first Head Start class in 1966 and considers himself a product of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society". He is fully bilingual in Spanish and has traveled extensively in Latin America, Asia and Europe. Sandoval is married to the former Ms. Amy Harrington, and they have two daughters, Natalie Irene Sandoval and Julia Elyse Sandoval.

[edit] Controversy

Shortly after his election, Sandoval suggested at a public political that San Franciscans ought to organize protests against litigious CEOs, picketing their "houses in Tiburon and their bar mitzvahs." His association of evil and greed with being Jewish subjected him to charge of anti-Semitism. Sandoval later apologized to San Francisco Jewish community leaders for making the remark.^[1]

Sandoval appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" on February 14, 2006 and declared repeatedly, to the astonishment of both hosts, that the United States should have no military forces.

Sandoval also appeared on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" on April 6, 2006, and stated: "I'm asking our police department to not assist the federal authorities in prosecuting these proposed immigration laws." (Transcript available on the Fox News website: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190867,00.html). However, this is not particularly unusual. Many cities have directed their police departments not to assist, believing these practices to be unconstitutional.

[edit] References

[edit] External reading

City Government Profile

San Francisco Board of Supervisors
McGoldrick • Alioto-Pier • Peskin • Jew • Mirkarimi • Daly • Elsbernd • Dufty • Ammiano • Maxwell • Sandoval