East Bay Times - The knives come out in editorial meeting
By INSIDER | East Bay Times PUBLISHED: May 16, 2008 at 11:28 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2016 at 6:33 p.m. The gloves came off early during the Times’ endorsement interview of the three Democrats vying for Gene Mullin’s soon-to-be vacated 19th District Assembly seat. Richard Holober, Gina Papan and Jerry Hill were asked to explain why they were best suited to represent San Mateo County residents in Sacramento. Hill seized the opportunity to speak first. “Should I talk about the sheriff?” he asked. That would be Greg Munks, the subject of a recent Times special report on his capture by Las Vegas police inside an illegal brothel a year ago as well as the subsequent lack of investigation or censure of Munks by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. Hill declared that the “sheriff issue” has developed into part of the campaign and he needed to address three things. First, he said the county charter doesn’t give the supervisors the right or lega...