1. Rostam Mirkarimi was born on 1961 and is an American politician and the former sheriff of San Francisco.
50 Facts About Ross Mirkarimi
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Ross Mirkarimi is a co-founder of the Green Party of California.
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In March 2010, Ross Mirkarimi became a Democrat and he was elected sheriff in November 2011.
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Ross Mirkarimi served from January to March 2012, at which time he was charged with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness in connection with a December 31,2011 New Year's Eve altercation with his wife, and he was suspended from office pending an ethics investigation.
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Ross Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment, but was not removed from office.
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Ross Mirkarimi lost his reelection bid to Vicki Hennessy in 2015.
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Ross Mirkarimi became the first sheriff in San Francisco to lose their bid for reelection and the first person to be elected without ever serving with the sheriff office.
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Ross Mirkarimi was born in Chicago to Nancy Kolman, who is of Russian Jewish descent, and Hamid Ross Mirkarimi, an Iranian immigrant.
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Ross Mirkarimi's parents divorced when he was 5, and he moved with his mother to Jamestown, Rhode Island, in 1973.
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Ross Mirkarimi graduated from the Catholic, all-male Bishop Hendricken High School.
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Ross Mirkarimi has a bachelor's degree in political science from St Louis University, a master's degree in international economics and affairs from Golden Gate University, and a master of science degree in environmental science from the University of San Francisco.
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Ross Mirkarimi is a graduate of the San Francisco Police Academy, where he was the president of his class.
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Ross Mirkarimi was a co-founder of the San Francisco Greens, and participated in founding the California's Green Party in 1990.
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Ross Mirkarimi coordinated Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign in California.
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Ross Mirkarimi managed local campaigns in San Francisco, including the 1989 Nuclear Free Zone initiative, the 1999 re-election campaign of DA Terence Hallinan, the 2001 campaign for public power and the March 2002 campaign to elect Harry Britt to the State Assembly.
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Ross Mirkarimi was a press spokesperson and campaign aide in Matt Gonzalez's 2003 San Francisco mayoral campaign.
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Ross Mirkarimi supported Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
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Ross Mirkarimi supported Green Party candidate Krissy Keefer over Nancy Pelosi in the 2006 congressional election.
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Ross Mirkarimi supported a measure by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier to ban smoking in city parks.
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Ross Mirkarimi helped expand the ban to bus shelters and the city's public golf courses.
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On September 9,2008, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed Ross Mirkarimi's legislation creating a Reentry Council to coordinate the disparate and disconnected city programs that help ex-offenders transition from incarceration back into society.
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In March 2007, Ross Mirkarimi introduced legislation that prohibits large supermarkets and drugstores from providing customers with non-biodegradable plastic bags, making San Francisco the first city to regulate such bags.
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In June 2008, Ross Mirkarimi sponsored a one-year pilot program of a solar rebate program that provides $1.5 million to nonprofit organizations and lower-income residents for the installation of photovoltaic solar power on rooftops; the measure received initial approval from the Board of Supervisors.
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Ross Mirkarimi was the chief sponsor of a measure to require most employers to give pre-tax commuter checks to employees, with the intention of getting workers out of commuting via private car and into using public transportation; the measure is unlike many others involving regulation of businesses in that it was not opposed by the Chamber of Commerce.
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In 2008, Ross Mirkarimi authored part of a reparations bill which would give descendants of those displaced by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency from the Western Addition priority in obtaining affordable housing.
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In May 2011, scheduled to be termed out as supervisor, Ross Mirkarimi announced he was running for sheriff of San Francisco in the November 2011 election.
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Ross Mirkarimi did not receive the endorsement of the San Francisco Deputy Sheriff's Association, the union representing sheriffs.
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On January 13,2012, Ross Mirkarimi was charged with domestic violence battery, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness.
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The charges came five days after he was sworn in publicly as sheriff and resulted from an altercation Ross Mirkarimi had with his wife, Eliana Lopez, before he became sheriff, on New Year's Eve.
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On January 23,2012, a second woman filed a police report claiming that Ross Mirkarimi had abused her.
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Under the plea agreement, Ross Mirkarimi was sentenced to three years' probation, one year of weekly domestic violence batterers classes, parenting classes, a hundred hours of community service, and fines and court fees nearing $600.
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Later, Ross Mirkarimi said he agreed to the plea bargain because it did not require him to relinquish his firearm, which he needed to carry out his job as sheriff.
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Ross Mirkarimi blamed a "runaway train of innuendo" in the news media for his legal travails.
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On July 20,2012, Judge Garrett Wong lifted the stay away order originally issued in January 2012 that barred Ross Mirkarimi from contacting his wife.
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In late July 2012 the National Lawyers Guild of San Francisco issued a statement urging the Board of Supervisors to support Ross Mirkarimi and calling for an end to the use of City resources to pursue the case.
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Several groups created statements of support for Ross Mirkarimi to remain in office since the domestic violence allegations surfaced, including the San Francisco Labor Council.
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Olague subsequently lost her seat as a supervisor of a progressive district to London Breed, due primarily to her vote to allow Ross Mirkarimi to remain in office despite his pleading guilty to a domestic violence charge.
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In November 2013, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi publicly apologized for his department's slow and incomplete search for Lynne Spalding, a San Francisco General Hospital patient whose body was found in a stairwell by a hospital engineer two weeks after she went missing from her hospital bed.
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Ross Mirkarimi said his department waited nine days after Lynne Spalding was reported missing to begin a hospital-wide search for the 57-year-old patient, and the search did not locate her.
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In June 2014, Ross Mirkarimi filed papers to run for re-election in 2015.
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Ross Mirkarimi didn't send out press releases to alert the press he was running.
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Ross Mirkarimi ran against Vicki Hennessy, who served as interim sheriff when Mirkarimi was suspended from his post as Sheriff in 2012.
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In March 2015, Ross Mirkarimi failed to receive the endorsement of the hundred-member San Francisco Sheriff's Managers and Supervisors Association, only seven of whom voted to endorse him.
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In 2008, Ross Mirkarimi supported a controversial resolution by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors asking the state to drop charges against the San Francisco 8, eight professed members of the Black Liberation Army arrested for their involvement in the 1971 murder of Sgt.
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Ross Mirkarimi sponsored legislation to require police foot patrols in high-crime neighborhoods.
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In 2015, Ross Mirkarimi failed a firearms test at the mandated target ranges.
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Ross Mirkarimi was banned from carrying a firearm, and by definition could no longer be Sheriff since he was not qualified at the range.
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Ross Mirkarimi was accused of re-assigning the range master, who questioned whether the sheriff was allowed to carry a gun while on probation.
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Ross Mirkarimi figured in the sanctuary city lawsuit of the family of Kathryn Steinle against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the City of San Francisco and the Bureau of Land Management.
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The other driver filed a report, but Ross Mirkarimi did not, nor did he pay the $55 fee to regain his full driving privileges.