{"id":1507220,"date":"2022-06-08T00:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507220"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:34:27","slug":"embattled-left-wing-prosecutor-chesa-boudin-recalled-in-san-francisco-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-left-wing-prosecutor-chesa-boudin-recalled-in-san-francisco-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled Left-Wing Prosecutor Chesa Boudin Recalled In San Francisco Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fembattled-left-wing-prosecutor-chesa-boudin-recalled-in-san-francisco-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507220&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was removed from office in a recall election Tuesday, multiple outlets are projecting.<\/p>\n<p>Boudin, elected in 2019, faced widespread criticism for what opponents called a soft-on-crime approach. The successful <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/06\/san-fran-prosecutor-defund-police-advocate-recall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recall campaign<\/a> began in the summer of 2021, and <a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2021\/12\/explore-see-just-who-is-funding-the-boudin-recall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was led by<\/a> former San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee chair Mary Jung.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Fqc6sKwPQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/5Fqc6sKwPQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfchronicle\/status\/1534383005455699968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/fentanyl-california-boudin-overdoses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boudin\u2019s<\/a> defenders alleged that the recall was a Republican campaign to oust a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/cnn-brownstein-caruso-gascon-boudin-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">progressive<\/a> criminal justice reformer. However, in the city in which President Joe Biden won 85% of the vote in 2020, Boudin was projected to have lost the recall election within minutes of results being reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polls<\/a> indicated that disapproval of Boudin was highest among the Asian-American and Hispanic communities. The recall petition coincided with an increase in anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The DA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/05\/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime\/629907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was accused<\/a> of failing to prosecute enough criminals committing crimes like burglary, car thefts and murder, and releasing repeat offenders from jail who went on to commit additional crimes. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/05\/08\/chesa-boudin-father-david-gilbert-weather-underground-jail-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: San Francisco DA Says His Father, Convicted Murderer And Former Member Of Terrorist Group, Should Get Out Of Prison)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/morgansimon\/2020\/03\/24\/san-francisco-da-chesa-boudin-says-covid-19-wont-end-without-criminal-justice-reform\/?sh=7e8169b25c34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ran on a platform<\/a> of ending cash bail, reducing incarceration rates and not cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were attempting to deport illegal immigrants in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was removed from office in a recall election Tuesday, multiple outlets are projecting.Boudin, elected in 2019, faced widespread criticism for what opponents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}