Realistically he was driving the bus over the cliff at too high a rate of speed. His replacement will be a slower driver but the bus is still going over the cliff. The only lesson the progressives will learn from this is to take things a bit slower and be a little quieter while doing it. The narrative won’t be as easy with a less easy target. The perception of out of control crime will lower as the tech guys have flexed and will move to something else. Shit ain’t gonna change in SF. There is no real law and order candidate nor is there the desire for such by most inhabitants.

The neighborhoods voting splits for/against on this are very revealing into how the city is split. The idea that wealthy GOP operatives co-opted this election and campaign, are patently false given the voting map:

IN favor of recall:
1. 73.9% Lake Merced (retirees and middle-class bedroom community)
2. 72% Pacific Heights/Marina (old money wealth and young professionals)
3. 71% Visitacion Valley (working class, Black and Asian community)
4. 70% Portola (working class, Asian community)
5. 70% Sunset (middle class Asian community, largest bedroom community in SF)(Boudin's home location)

Against recall:
1. 34% North Bernal Heights (lesbian epicenter, gentrified from working class)
2. 42% Mission (center of gravity for West Coast hipsters and urban techies)
3. 43% Haight-Ashbury (wealthy aging hippies and those clinging to the late-60's)
4. 43% South Bernal Heights (lesbian epicenter, gentrified from working class)
5. 45% Inner Sunset (bedroom community of non-parents)

Get a clue, douche

The PEOPLE of one of the most liberal cities in the world got tired of your shit and threw your woke ass out.

Woke San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin blames 'right-wing billionaires and police officers'

What an asshole.

^^^ Could there be any clearer proof that it's all a hustle to them?

Am I thrilled this clown was kicked to the curb by San Francisco? Absolutely. But I think the final vote tally still points to a huge problem in that a full 40% of voters were willing to vote against his recall. If Boudin had been just 'slightly' less the POS he is, San Fran would have kept him in the office.

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Originally posted by berto:
Realistically he was driving the bus over the cliff at too high a rate of speed. His replacement will be a slower driver but the bus is still going over the cliff. The only lesson the progressives will learn from this is to take things a bit slower and be a little quieter while doing it. The narrative won’t be as easy with a less easy target. The perception of out of control crime will lower as the tech guys have flexed and will move to something else. Shit ain’t gonna change in SF. There is no real law and order candidate nor is there the desire for such by most inhabitants.

The pain needs to continue for the citizens before real change happens. Good first step was voting out those on the Board of Education, now Boudin has been ousted; next step there's a handful of supervisors that need to be shown the door, particularly given their open support of Boudin. Just about everyone in SF politics is a Leftist, the question is how ideological cemented are they in their beliefs.

The Overton Window of SF politics is soo far to the Left, that the only hope for any moderation is incremental moves. The citizens barely voted-in Boudin, thanks to ranked-choice voting; recent Oakland mayoral races have shown how this is a disastrous method of voting. Suzy Loftus, who lost to Boudin is a possible candidate and would move things (incrementally) towards the center. There's talk of former ADA Brooke Jenkins getting appointed by Breed, a nod towards another African-American women in a big chair; Nancy Tung another former DA is a rumored candidate, she'd be a nod to all Asian community, which has been outraged at both Boudin and Breed for not addressing all the violence against the Asian community. Tung apparently is the 'most' tough-on-crime possibility the mayor tried appointing her to the Police Commission and the Board of Supervisors blocked her nomination, saying they wanted someone more progressive towards police reform. She may not be a 'traditional' tough-on-crime option but, any steps towards a balanced center is a positive step, not to mention any pissing-off the hard-Lefties on the BoS is a good thing as well.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Am I thrilled this clown was kicked to the curb by San Francisco? Absolutely. But I think the final vote tally still points to a huge problem in that a full 40% of voters were willing to vote against his recall. If Boudin had been just 'slightly' less the POS he is, San Fran would have kept him in the office.

San Fran is full of commies and far leftists. So, no surprise there. And, just look at Biden. Some 30% of the country still think he's doing a good job. There is no cure for these assholes.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Not many states have recall capabilities like California.

The State of CA had nothing to do with this. The CA Elections Code only addresses recall of statewide elected officials.

Getting rid of this DA was done solely by the people of SF who clearly had enough.

Now we need to see who the liberal mayor is going to appoint since she's vested with that power to appoint an interim DA. In the recall drive she didn't support his ouster but questioned the effectiveness of some of his decisions. If she appoints a Soros backed ideologue who isn't as nuts as the DA then there's little change. Brazen shoplifting that isn't prosecuted, for instance.

I have a niece who lives and works in SF and has for many years before all this stuff happened. Last time I talked with her she said someone was breaking into a car in front of her with no worries because they know cops won't respond because the DA won't prosecute.

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Originally posted by 12131:
This fucker is a real communist. Just look at who his parents are. Good riddance, you SOB.

Boudin's dad was a member of Weather Underground and spent 40 years in prison getting paroled last year, his mother was also a member of Weather Underground and spent over 20 years in prison getting paroled in 2003. With both parents in prison, Boudin was raised by Bill Ayers who is a co-founder of Weather Underground.

What did the voters expect electing this guy ?

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Originally posted by old dino:

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Originally posted by 12131:
This fucker is a real communist. Just look at who his parents are. Good riddance, you SOB.

Boudin's dad was a member of Weather Underground and spent 40 years in prison getting paroled last year, his mother was also a member of Weather Underground and spent over 20 years in prison getting paroled in 2003. With both parents in prison, Boudin was raised by Bill Ayers who is a co-founder of Weather Underground.

What did the voters expect electing this guy ?

Dig deeper...Boudin is not only the progeny of hard Leftists, he spent nearly a decade in Latin America getting exposure and indoctrinated through a variety national Leftist despots. He was Hugo Chavez's interpretor in Venezuela. Admires Bolivia's Evo Morales and Brazil's de Silva.
SF knew what they were getting in Boudin, he was the dream of the far-Left progressives, the problem is half the people in the city don't vote and the other half and ideological bound for more Left.

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Originally posted by 12131:
San Fran is full of commies and far leftists.

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Originally posted by old dino:
What did the voters expect electing this guy ?

Nothing will change. Nada. Frisco will go further down the commie rabbit hole even further.

The voters knew what this asshole wanted to do. They knew he was not going to prosecute black and latino people. They knew he was going to render police helpless in fighting crime. They knew he was not going to prosecute many crimes.

They got exactly what they voted for, Boudin kept his word. But the fucking idiots living in SF couldn't believe the results would affect them. THEY are to blame, 100%. Boudin was doing what he was elected to do. They loved what he did, they simply didn't realize that they would be swept into the vortex. I have been to SF several times this year and same last year, for business, and it is literally a 3rd world shithole. And SF politics runs the country now.

Let us rejoice in our victory for a day or two.

Buh-bye Chesa to you, your parents, to your colleagues in the Weather Underground (including Billy Ayers), to Hugo and the rest of the socialist leadership trash in Latin America and anyone else who supports or supported you.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
How is possible that 60% of SF voters were swayed by right wing billionaires?

You really don't want to mess with the Asian community in SF. They are pretty good at getting out the vote when something pisses them off...they have no qualms about crossing party lines when it comes to voting.

It will be interesting to see who the mayor appoints as the interim DA...and if they can get re elected in 2023

I appreciate you Bay Area natives chiming in. I'm glad to see this clown and fraud recalled.

However, what will actual change in SF? Feces, open drug use and distribution, property and personal crimes, retailers fleeing the poorest neighborhoods, cops not bothering to make arrests, bums and junkies being bums and junkies......

I think Covid has proven that we don't need SF as much as it needs us. I know three coworkers who have moved away from the city to work remotely. The vibe isn't there and not worth the hassle.

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Originally posted by pedropcola:

My issue is more journalism related. Not arguing that things aren't worse because they are. The headline says the murder rate is soaring. An increase of 11% is not good but in what world does that constitute “soar”. If I told you my 401k balanced soared least year and then I said it gained 11% you would laugh in my face. Sorry, words matter. Horrible journalism. They can’t be accurate with anything. Rant off.

Well, the number I heard was an almost 40% increase in homicides. Those might not all be classified as murders, but that is a pretty large spike nonetheless.

The increase in burglaries was even greater.

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Boudin enjoyed his strongest support in inner-core neighborhoods like the Mission and Haight-Ashbury, but he was decisively rejected by wealthier whites in enclaves like Pacific Heights as well as by Asian Americans in redoubts like Richmond. Boudin enjoyed his strongest support in inner-core neighborhoods like the Mission and Haight-Ashbury, but he was decisively rejected by wealthier whites in enclaves like Pacific Heights as well as by Asian Americans in redoubts like Richmond.

“Wealthier” is relative because unless you’re in Hunters Point, you have some good money or are heavily subsidized. The 60% support for Boudin is indicative of the uphill battle of getting people to come to their senses. I’m afraid that even if things get to the level of “Escape from New York” or some other dystopian scenario, these people won’t be able to connect the dots.

And him saying he is part of a movement rings true. It’s going to be a whack-a-mole situation for a while.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
I appreciate you Bay Area natives chiming in. I'm glad to see this clown and fraud recalled.

However, what will actual change in SF? Feces, open drug use and distribution, property and personal crimes, retailers fleeing the poorest neighborhoods, cops not bothering to make arrests, bums and junkies being bums and junkies......

I think Covid has proven that we don't need SF as much as it needs us. I know three coworkers who have moved away from the city to work remotely. The vibe isn't there and not worth the hassle.

As corsair said the people voting for stupid shit need to continue to feel the pain of their policy preferences. Unfortunately the really wealthy are insulated. Door to door car service and private security. The young tech money folks see it as urban color and part of the experience. They move to the suburbs when they have kids. The folks in their 40s who decided to raise their kids in SF have accepted the bullshit as the trade off for living here. They’re the ones that might bring change once they get tired of their cars being broken into and other property crime but they make enough money that new windows twice a year is a minor inconvenience. The scary crime happens in neighborhoods they don’t live in and rarely go to and primarily to people who don’t look like them. They don’t care if everything at Walgreens is locked up because they get everything delivered. The poor behavior that makes headlines seeps but is largely confined to the typical places. Property crime increasing in the neighborhoods is what got Boudin bounced.

I see plenty of tourists every day. There are more people coming to the office. Employers will adjust.

His cohort down below in Los Angeles, DA George Gascon is next.

Gascon. Arghh. Former LAPD pencil neck. I think he started on the job the same year I did. You see these guys the Politicals, book worms for the exams, onward to law school while on the job and useless as shift partners in a radio car. Not saying this happened but some of these folks will rat you out in a heart beat to curry favor with IAD.

Gascon needs to be voted out next.