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<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#3b3030;font-size:14px"><strong>San Francisco voters oust DA Chesa Boudin over soft-on-crime policies </strong> </h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#3b3030;font-size:14px"><strong>Boudin was ousted their progressive district attorney on Tuesday in a recall election rejected his soft-on-crime policies following surges in shameless shoplifting, car break-ins and rampant, open-air drug deal</strong> </h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#3b3030;font-size:14px"><strong>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</strong></h1>


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<figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Chesa-Boudin-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409424" width="232" height="248"/><figcaption><strong>Chesa Boudin is seen on Tuesday night at an election evening event, as the ballots were counted</strong></figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Enough is enough. The residents of beleaguered of the city of San Francisco Tuesday by a huge majority of voters cast in a recall ousted their progressive district attorney. <br>The outcome of the recall election rejected Chesa Boudin&#8217;s soft-on-crime policies following surges in shameless shoplifting, car break-ins and rampant, open-air drug dealing.<br>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<br>Only 24 percent of the city&#8217;s electorate of 495,000 turned out, with 70,730 voting against the DA, with some ballots remaining to be counted.<br>The more more pertinent question from Tuesday’s recall election is whether Proposition H on the ballot, could yet prove be a foretaste of voter sentiment across the US, as the right fash faced widespread criticism since enacting a slew of progressive policies after taking office in January. <br>“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.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Chesa-Boudin-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409422"/><figcaption><strong>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin [photo], was ousted by voters in a recall election Tuesday.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Chesa-Boudin-right-with-his-wife-Valerie-Block-center-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409426" width="832" height="599"/><figcaption><strong>It did not go as planned: Boudin and his wife, Valerie Block, are seen at the election night event on Tuesday in San Francisco</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We here in San Francisco have lived it and we don’t want to see the great city of New York fall in the way that San Francisco has.” <br>Boudin’s loss followed February’s<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/16/san-francisco-recalls-gabriela-lopez-faauuga-moliga-alison-collins-off-citys-school-board/"> recalls of three San Francisco school members</a> 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. <br>Mayor London Breed, who in December <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/white-house-lauds-defund-the-police-san-francisco-mayor-for-crime-crackdown/">announced a crackdown</a> 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.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/San-francisco-residents-campaign-to-recall-District-Attorney-Chesa-Boudin-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409427"/><figcaption><strong>Volunteers with signs stand along 19th Avenue urging motorists to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, on May 26, 2022</strong>.</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Store-vandalism-in-San-Francisco-1-1024x765.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409439"/><figcaption><strong>Strike 1: Scene from one the now common incidents of smash-and-grab thieves hitting high end stores in the San Francisco area</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Store-vandalism-in-San-Francisco-5.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409444" width="840" height="562"/><figcaption><strong>Industrial scale shoplifting.: Caught on tape, a brazen shoplifter was being watched stuffing items into a garbage bag inside a San Francisco Walgreens and then pedaling off on his bike while helpless store employees and security watched, helpless</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The selection process could be complicated, however, by another ballot measure, Proposition C, that, if passed, would bar Breed’s pick from running in the special election, ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/chesa-boudin-recall-17166010.php" target="_blank">according to the San Francisco Chronicle</a>. <br>Boudin, 41, was narrowly elected in 2019 amid a nationwide wave of victories by progressive DA candidates who vowed to reform a criminal justice system they called historically racist and unfair. <br>But residents of ultra-liberal San Francisco, population 815,000, soon soured on Boudin’s vision of “radical change to how we envision justice,” which included prohibitions on seeking cash bail, prosecuting juveniles as adults and seeking tougher sentences under California’s anti-gang or “three strikes” laws.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Chesa-Boudin-second-left-and-fiancee-Valeria-Block-left-at-the-Wende-Correctional-Facility-with-parents-David-Gilbert-and-Katherine-Boudin-right-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409430"/><figcaption><strong>Chesa Boudin [second left], and fiancée Valeria Block [left], at the Wende Correctional Facility with parents David Gilbert and Katherine Boudin on the right </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Viral videos have revealed shoplifters ;<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/11/24/9-suspects-charged-in-san-fransisco-smash-and-grab-robberies/">running rampant</a> ;during smash-and-grab thefts at high-end stores, with city police Lt. Tracy McCray ;<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/san-fran-cops-walgreens-shoplift-incident-is-par-for-the-course/">lamenting to Fox News</a> ;last year that “we can have a greatest hits compilation of people just walking in and cleaning out the store shelves.”</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Chesa-Boudin-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409441" width="840" height="560"/><figcaption><strong>Former District Attorney Chesa Boudin [photo],still had one year left of his tenure, which will be served out by an appointee now that he has been recalled</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Anti-drug-billboard-in-San-Francisco-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409446" width="841" height="560"/><figcaption><strong>Huge anti-drug billboard strategically located, two months ago in San Francisco’s Union Square that reads, “Famous the world over for our brains, beauty, and now, dirt cheap </strong>f<strong>entanyl”, against a backdrop of the signature Golden Gate Bridge, part of the push back against social and moral decay drowning the city</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Offenses against Asian Americans also proliferated amid the pandemic, with lifelong resident Henry Wong, 74, who worked for the late comedian Robin Williams, saying that people “spit on me on elevators, on the streets” and calling Boudin “the worst district attorney the city has ever had.” <br>“These are crimes,” Wong ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/06/cehsa-boudin-recall/" target="_blank">told the Washington Post</a>. <br>“And he doesn’t care. It’s just so easy to break the law.”<br>The ;<a href="https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crime-dashboard">latest official police statistics</a> ;show that overall crime in the city is up nearly 8 percent this year, with a 20 percent surge in larcenies, as well as spikes in homicides, rapes and assaults. <br>Most polls conducted in the run-up to Tuesday’s election indicated that voters were poised to get rid of Boudin by a wide margin, with a Friday survey ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/our_sections/forum/examiner-poll-finds-voters-will-recall-chesa-boudin-despite-strong-support-for-reform/article_592409fe-e20e-11ec-b10d-a34ba260b65f.html" target="_blank">published by the San Francisco Examiner</a> ;showing 56% in favor of removing him.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Street-crime-in-San-Francisco-2-1024x573.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409435"/><figcaption>Strike 2: San Francisco saw an 8 percent increase in overall crime this year, majority of them brazen, in broad daylight</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-12.png" alt="" class="wp-image-409436" width="843" height="820"/><figcaption><strong>The volume of these offenses with Asian American-owned businesses or the <strong>individuals </strong>as targets also proliferated amid the pandemic </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Open-air-drug-market-in-San-Francisco-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409455" width="836" height="554"/><figcaption><strong>The sight of addicts at the open-air drug dealers&#8217; has become a thing of grave concern for the general public</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Boudin’s supporters pinned the recall effort on conservatives and business groups that raised more than $7 million to oust Boudin, who doubled down on his policies at a recent campaign event. <br>“This is not a recall campaign interested in safety or in truth or in justice or in solutions, it’s interested in division, in fear and spreading hate and undermining policies … that make our communities safer,” he said. <br>Boudin is the son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, who served as getaway drivers for the infamous 1981 robbery of a Brink’s armored car in Rockland County, during which two cops, Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly “Chipper” Jones were killed along with Brink’s guard Peter Paige.<br>Kathy Boudin was paroled in 2003 and died of cancer in May.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/David-Gilbert-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409460" width="835" height="554"/><figcaption><strong>Boudin&#8217;s dad David Gilbert [center], was been granted parole after spending nearly 40 years in prison for his role in the Brink&#8217;s armored car robbery in Rockland County that left two police officers and a security guard dead.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Kathy-Boudin-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409462" width="841" height="571"/><figcaption><strong>Chesa Boudin&#8217;s mother Kathy Boudin, who spent decades in prison for her part in the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist as a member of the radical militant group Weather Underground, died of canc</strong>er<strong> at the age of 78 in New York in May</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Gilbert was paroled in October after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/24/families-blast-cuomo-for-granting-clemency-to-1981-cop-killer/">made him eligible</a> during one of his final acts in office after announcing he was quitting over a sex-harassment scandal. <br>Boudin still had one year left of his tenure, which will be served out by an appointee now that he has been recalled. The task of appointing his replacement falls on the the city’s centrist Democratic Mayor London Breed, but in so doing she may want to avoid the landmine of picking an ideological like mind in the highly polarized Left-Right political landscape of the city.<br>A special election for DA will be held in November to determine who finishes Boudin’s term through 2023. </p>

