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February 28, 2004
$100,000 penalty! (Well, at least it beats the gulags....)
Here's a real treat for people who enjoy contemplating hypocrisy in its various dimensions. A champion of Berkeley rent control was ordered last week to pay his former tenants more than $100,000 in restitution by the very rent board he campaigned to create.Berkowitz and Shirek, for those uninitiated in Berkeley city politics, are at the far left end of Berkeley's left-wing ruling class's political spectrum. This crowd is known for doing things like visiting Fidel, propaganda junkets to visit the PLO, and (one of my personal favorites) a visit to celebrate the anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when it was still there, and on the EASTERN side! Berkowitz dinged by the Rent Board? It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Welcome to the club, Mike!
Berkowitz must have been on "the outs" with the rads for reasons unknown to me. That happens. Sometimes, they turn on their own. They are all paranoid and are always on the lookout for enemy agents within, like FBI moles in the Communist Party back in the 1950s.I answered that sometimes the reason can be as simple as making friends with the wrong person. Might Maudelle be thinking about getting a new aide? posted by Eric on 02.28.04 at 12:19 PM
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