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Chesa Boudin Recalled by San Francisco Voters

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Post by gfsdgfsdg »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #5
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Have you tried putting weed in your carry-on on any foreign airline? The drug laws in many America cities and states are "far left" relative to the rest of the world. Coincidentally, lax drug laws have caused many issues in SF that led to Chesa Boudin's recall

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Chesa being thrown out on his ear just means a slightly more moderate liberal will be installed in his place. Your belief that this represents a swing to the republican party is outlandish and deranged. This is San Francisco we're talking about.

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As I understand it, Boudin barely eked out a win to begin with. Philadelphia is about twice the size of San Francisco, which has outsized visibility in our political culture but is in fact about the size of Nashville. Philly overwhelmingly reelected its progressive prosecutor. There's something to be said for the idea that, ideology aside, you also just have to seem good at the actual job; the job is not simply a ser…

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Fatnino wrote: post #23
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Chesa being thrown out on his ear just means a slightly more moderate liberal will be installed in his place. Your belief that this represents a swing to the republican party is outlandish and deranged. This is San Francisco we're talking about.

Yes. Meanwhile across the bay in Alameda County the criminal justice reform candidates are doing quite well.

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ikiris wrote: post #22
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I’m curious how many people would agree with this comment. If Chesa and his policies are not considered far left, who/what is? It seems that his polices were on the extreme end of the progressive spectrum, and that both his supporters and critics would agree with that statement.

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Post by paxys »

georgia_peach wrote: post #10

Looks like having a DA raised by Weather Underground was too much, even for San Francisco: " Boudin fell in love with David Gilbert in the 1970s and gave birth to their son Chesa in 1980. When her son was 14 months old, she was arrested and subsequently incarcerated for murder and bank robbery. Her son was raised by former Weatherman leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. "

It is disingenuous to say Weather Underground had anything to do with this recall. San Francisco voters knew of his parents' background back in 2019, and still gave him a chance. Ultimately he was kicked out due to his performance (or lack thereof).
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