The problem? In February 2010 they began renting it to one of Mary Hayashi’s aides, Chris Parmon and his husband, Chabot College chancellor Joel Kinnamon—a month after Parmon was given a $7,500 raise. That represented a 10% pay boost, to $82,440.
Now CBS 5 is helping revive the story, just as Hayashi enters the stretch run in her effort to win Nadia Lockyer’s old seat as an Alameda County supervisor. (You can view the piece here). In it, CBS 5 political analyst and San Francisco State professor Joe Tuman questions the ethics of the arrangement.
Mary Hayashi didn’t respond to the station’s request for comment. Then again, she dodged the media for months after her no contest plea to shoplifting at Neiman Marcus last year, before finally consenting to a single interview a few weeks ago.