Downtown, Realtors Push JROTC Ballot InitiativeMarc Nortonbyline‚ Jul. 21‚ 2008It was Eric Mar's turn at the San Francisco Police Officers Association (POA) candidates forum, speaking about his run for Supervisor in the Richmond. For Sergeant Nelson Lum, this was an opportunity to lambast Mar for his vote, as a member of the San Francisco school board, to phase the military's Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) out of the public schools. Sitting with Lum was the venerable Republican Party leader Christopher Bowman. Lum is one of the principal spokesmen for the campaign that put the JROTC initiative on this November's ballot. Lum is also a 30-year retired veteran of the SF police force, where he was a SWAT sniper and team leader. He was one of five police officials, all either Republicans or "decline-to-staters," appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to a state commission on police training shortly after Schwarzenegger's elevation from movie star to public official. |