Hamasaki assembled his campaign in a matter of days and is still building out its infrastructure. As of Friday afternoon, he did not have a website and was still in the process of fleshing out his policy platform.
John Hamasaki, 51, has entered a fraught and undoubtedly tumultuous contest to serve as The City’s next DA, as San Francisco grapples with an ongoing opioid epidemic and persistent fears about crime.
But Hamasaki, a fourth-generation San Franciscan who runs his own criminal defense law firm, said the lack of a progressive candidate was only part of what motivated him to run. “There was a hope that someone committed to a more reform-oriented District Attorney’s Office would step up and run, rather than what we’ve seen from the current appointed district attorney — which is just dusting off the same stuff we’ve been trying for decades,” said Supervisor Dean Preston, who joined Hamasaki on the steps of City Hall for an event on Friday.
And while 55% of voters recalled Boudin, progressives have noted he didn’t have an opponent from whom to distinguish himself. Hamasaki, however, is the outsider, and is hardly shy from criticizing Jenkins — including on Twitter.And his Twitter history — including a Tweet in which he called for the defunding of police and the District Attorney’s Office — has already become fodder for those who supported Boudin’s recall, despite his deletion of all of his Tweets dating back to February.
“It’s not great, I don’t love it, but at the same time ... it’s different for different people,” Hamasaki said. “There’s the kind of hate I get and the kind of hate a woman of color would face. I think compared to that, it’s much more manageable for me.”
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