Fed-up San Francisco voters ousted their progressive district attorney on Tuesday in a recall election that rejected his soft-on-crime policies following surges in shameless shoplifting, car break-ins and rampant, open-air drug dealing.
The recall effort against Chesa Boudin, a former public defender and the son of convicted Weather Underground terrorists, was supported by 61% of voters in early returns, according to NBC.
Tuesday’s recall election, Proposition H on the ballot, could prove a bellwether of voter sentiment across the US, including in New York City, where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has faced widespread criticism since enacting a slew of progressive policies after taking office in January.
“Around the country, we have seen the rise of the so-called progressive DAs,” Richie Greenberg, a former Republican mayoral candidate and spokesman for the recall effort, told The Post before Tuesday’s vote.……Boudin’s loss followed February’s recalls of three San Francisco school members amid outrage over their decision to spend time renaming one-third of the city’s schools instead of reopening classrooms closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mayor London Breed — who in December announced a crackdown in which cops would be “less tolerant of all the bulls–t that has destroyed our city” — will name Boudin’s replacement until a special election is held in November.
Chesa Boudin, a red-diaper baby who was raised by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in Chicago while his parents were shipped off to prison, was a San Francisco DA.
His terrorist mother recently croaked at the age of 78.
In 1981, Weather Underground members David J. Gilbert and Kathy Boudin hooked up with a black nationalist group called “The Family”, to carry out a Brinks armored car robbery. Two police officers and a security guard were murdered.
Of the 13 WU leaders indicted for the terrorism spree, only Boudin, Gilbert, and Matthew Landy Steen, who was a culprit in the U.S. Capitol bombing, spent time in prison. No other WU member was ever convicted of the crimes they committed.
Boudin was paroled in 2003, and (surprise) along with fellow terrorist Bill Ayers, joined the ranks of leftwing academic intelligentsia.
I’m surprised Boudin was kicked to the curb. California had a chance to get rid of Gavin Newsom and decided to keep him. Newsom has welcomed millions of illegals to his state. He hands out free medical, free education, driver’s licenses, and housing to them, while his state wallows in crime, filth, needles, and tent cities. Apparently, California hasn’t had enough.
If Boudin’s ouster is a sign of improvement, they’ve got some catching up to do.