Chesa Boudin ousted as San Francisco district attorney in historic recall

[SouthBayDem]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco voters tossed District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office on Tuesday, favoring a recall effort that argued his progressive reforms were too lenient and made the city less safe.

Boudin was trailing by 24 percentage points, according to the first batch of election results released at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Boudin will be removed from office 10 days after the Board of Supervisors formally accepted the election results. The city’s more moderate mayor, London Breed, would choose his immediate replacement, and voters would elect a new district attorney in November. With a failed recall vote, Boudin would be up for re-election in November 2023.

The results capped off a furious debate over crime and criminal justice in San Francisco, with the two sides fighting over Boudin’s approach to incarceration and rehabilitation and his leadership. As his supporters lauded his efforts to find alternatives to jails and prisons — which he said had failed the public for decades — his detractors slammed him as too permissive.

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/Chesa-Boudin-ousted-as-San-Francisco-District-17226641.php

[ColinC]

1. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuiuuuuuuuuck

[Polybius]

19. We, it appears that so far in this thread you are alone in your disappointment

I'm not looking for trouble, but can I ask you why did you support him?

[ColinC]

20. I don't know the race well. But generally if we don't have reform minded DAs

We will simply get the run of the mill "law and order" morons who try to sentence you to the death penalty for stealing a slice of bread. Painful and inhumane punishments do not contribute to law and order. This guy might have lost his hold on the office in trying to do what he did and made the office look bad. The alternative is destroying lives over relatively minor crimes.

[ColinC]

21. But my biggest worry

Is that my DA, Gascon, will follow. Perhaps they aren't the same, though.

[ColinC]

24. Also this

http://www.cjcj.org/mobile/news/13312

[nycbos]

2. Good. People like Boudin hurt the Democratic Party brand. We don't need them.

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[JI7]

6. What's good about him ?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Think they missed a comma after the first word (nt)

[nycbos]

11. indeed

[LeftInTX]

15. Punctuation matters!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Sometimes, it's better to miss a comma ...

... than to miss a period.

But, poster now has a period. All is, well.

[Polybius]

3. Woo hoo!

[RandySF]

4. Chesa Boudin was just bad news.

1. Chased out career deputy prosecutors by constantly meddling in cases and overriding decision.
2. Caused the head of the Crime Victims Unit to resign in protest.
3. Filed charges in less than 50% of theft cases.
4. Constantly refused to meet with victims of violence or their families prior to making charging decisions.

[yardwork]

12. So the problem isn't that he's "too progressive?"

The messaging on this is designed to convince people that progressives can't win elections. It sounds like that's not an accurate description of him?

[JohnSJ]

13. That is the media pushing that theme. He wasn't doing the job he was elected to do. Who

do you think the Mayor will replace him with? It won’t be a conservative or a republican.

[IronLionZion]

14. They push the story that liberals are soft on crime

when one liberal happened to make poor policy choices that were soft on crime. They're using him to tarnish liberals who are not at all like him.

[dalton99a]

5. Boudin is an arrogant asshole who coddles violent thugs and disrespects victims.

Good riddance

[Jose Garcia]

8. Well at least now he will have more free time to spend with his father

[bucolic_frolic]

9. That's democracy at work, if you don't like it, vote to change course

[DashOneBravo]

17. + 1

[Hortensis]

22. Yes. And if you want to hold office but your beliefs don't reflect/

conflict with those of a majority of constituents, your choices are to

* change yourself as required to commit to serving the wishes of the majority, or decline to run until you get the majority with you,
* deceive, slander and buy your way into office as needed, expecting to be replaced for cause at some point (bad luck if it happens quickly; some can last for several terms), and/or
* work to overthrow representative democracy and the will of voters who reject your views, planning for plenty of time out of office to do it.

And maybe keep a sign over your desk, "Gotta Contend with the Will of the People, Stupid."

[oldsoftie]

10. "soft on crime" idiots like this cost national elections. Good riddance.

[IronLionZion]

16. There has to be a better balance

There are plenty of opportunities for reforms but he went way too far. He was too lenient on repeat offenders, murderers, and violent hate crimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin#Criticism

[YoshidaYui]

18. I WILL just say this...

I LOVE my city of SAN FRANCISCO!

[Hortensis]

23. :) Nice input. Wish we were there.