The slogan also inadvertently became an occasion for drawing attention to Ed Lee’s behind-the-scenes backer, Rose Pak.
On a couple of campaign posters adjacent to Portsmouth Square in the heart of Chinatown, an enterprising activist had made color print-outs of Rose Pak and stuck them on two posters.
In one, a picture of Pak and Lee was pasted below the words “A sagacious election choice” in Chinese.
On the other, Pak’s grinning mug is pasted atop the Chinese character for “you” in the second part of the campaign phrase, making it say: “With him in charge, Rose Pak can take it easy.”
A few days later someone had ripped off the Pak pictures; faint shreds of torn white paper were the only vestiges of that short-lived prank.
