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Just months after the city of San Francisco began investigating city Supervisor Ed Jew’s residency, Berkeley rent board member Chris Kavanagh was arrested in an Oakland coffee shop Friday on charges of, like Jew, not living in the area in which he holds office. By law, elected officials must reside in the city they serve; in Jew’s case, officials must reside in the district they serve.
Documents released by Berkeley show that the city received a complaint back in 2002 alleging that Kavanagh lived in Oakland. This past Tuesday, Kavanagh spoke publicly about the prompted investigation, apologizing to and thanking fellow board members, though he did not offer details concerning his residency. And we thought something exciting would happen.
Kavanagh has served on the Rent Stabilization Board since 2002. He wrote a letter to the editor of The Daily Californian, as well as an article published by the Daily Cal in 2003 defending the rent board’s decision to raise registration fees. At least he’s been doing his job?
Kavanagh seems like a fairly upstanding guy–he was re-elected to his position, which surely counts for something. Maybe we’re not happy with the egregious rent that he and his fellow board members aren’t exactly “stabilizing,” but come on: residency scandal? His potential prison stint doesn’t seem nearly as interesting as it could be, especially for a town riddled with crime, hippies in trees, crazies and porn star namesakes.
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