SF Mayoral Candidate Makes Awkward Mao Reference

Despite bristling against unfair `red-baiting` of Ed Lee, the incumbent`s mayoral campaign has made central to its Chinese-language poster effort an only slightly-altered quote from Mao Zedong, the reddest communist of them all.
Matthew Robertson
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee attends Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 held at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse on September 13, in San Francisco, California. (Araya Diaz/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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