If Gavin Newsom had bothered to ask those working with Thomas J. Lo in the Public Defender's office about him, he would have gotten an earful. Lo was the least popular person in the office and well-known for prejudice against certain minorities and against women.

Since Lo took the bench, those at the PD's office have turned out to be correct. Lo has shown a clear distaste for women, banning abused women from seeing their children, ignoring strong evidence of violence against women, treating abused women as if they deserved the violence perpetrated against them, throwing disabled women out of their homes into the street, allowing violent attackers to confiscate and dispose of property belonging to their victims and overturning orders favorable to minorities and women made by other judges. If a litigant is a member of one of the races against which Lo is prejudiced, he can kiss his chances in Lo's courtroom goodbye.

All women and minorities would be best 170.6ing Lo before the first hearing. If Gavin wants to save his own legacy, he should make sure that Lo is placed into settings where the litigants do not include minorities or women.