Famed liberal lawyer and commentator Alan Dershowitz is raising questions about an apparently race-based decision by the city of San Francisco to dismiss its longtime – and long-praised – elections chief.
Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, emeritus at Harvard Law School, and wrote at the Gatestone Institute about John Arntz, who has been the city’s elections department chief for 20 years.
“He has been repeatedly praised for his excellent performance at this increasingly important job — important because of so many election challenges and doubts. Just two years ago, the election commission commended him for his ‘incredible leadership,’” he explained.
“But now they are essentially firing him because he is apparently of the wrong race to satisfy their ‘racial equity plan.’”
Arntz was told by the city, “Our decision wasn’t about your performance, but after twenty years we wanted to take action on the city’s racial equity plan and give people an opportunity to compete for a leadership position,” the commentary said.
Derhowitz noted the mayor disagreed with the move, and all 12 managers in Arntz’ department asked that he be kept on.
“But in today’s woke world of identity politics, race trumps meritocracy. ‘Racial equity’ plans are apparently more important than electoral integrity,” Dershowitz said.
Because he was White !!!!