{"id":1512028,"date":"2022-06-12T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512028"},"modified":"2022-06-12T07:09:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:09:58","slug":"steve-cuozzo-san-francisco-canceled-its-da-who-should-new-york-vote-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-cuozzo-san-francisco-canceled-its-da-who-should-new-york-vote-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cuozzo: San Francisco Canceled Its DA; Who Should New York Vote Out?"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsteve-cuozzo-san-francisco-canceled-its-da-who-should-new-york-vote-out%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=1512028&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>San Franciscans finally woke up to the stupidity of their wokeness.<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/08\/san-francisco-da-chesa-boudin-ousted-over-soft-on-crime-policies\/\"> This week, they recalled<\/a> District Attorney Chesa (\u201cI prosecute nobody\u201d) Boudin, on whose watch the city\u2019s crime rate skyrocketed and clusters of predatory \u201chomeless\u201d proliferated.<\/p>\n<p>Many of our local political leaders need the mitten, too.\u00a0All espouse zany theories. Some are anti-capitalism, others effectively pro-crime (whether they\u2019ll admit it or not), and\u00a0all devoid of common sense. We don\u2019t have California\u2019s recall mechanism, but they need to be voted out of office before they do any more damage. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>ALVIN BRAGG, Manhattan District Attorney<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Calling for his head is almost too obvious. Bragg didn\u2019t sneak into office by concealing his intentions. He <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/12\/alvin-bragg-wont-discuss-outrage-over-soft-on-crime-stance\/\">said in his campaign<\/a> he would \u201cdecline [to prosecute] and divert minor offenses.\u201d He didn\u2019t mean only \u201cbroken windows\u201d enforcement, but reducing armed robberies\u00a0to misdemeanors if no one was shot. Oh, he\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/03\/manhattans-elected-da-bragg-vows-to-hold-police-accountable\/\">\u201cend mass incarceration.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/alvin-bragg-1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has seen crime on his watch increase 43 percent year-over-year.  His soft-on-bad-guys policies have emboldened perps while demoralizing the police. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Is it any wonder city crime is up <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_in_New_York_City#:~:text=Crime%20rates%20in%20the%20city,2021%2C%20according%20to%20the%20NYPD.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">43 percent over last year<\/a> on his watch? It\u2019s what happens when shoplifters, vandals, predatory beggars and even stickup men know they\u2019ll be turned loose. It demoralizes cops who know it\u2019s a waste of their time to get \u201cminor\u201d and even not-so-minor offenders off the streets.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg\" alt=\"AOC wants to\u00a0defund the NYPD, close Rikers Island and release its inmates into the streets.\" class=\"wp-image-22611620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>AOC wants to\u00a0defund the NYPD, close Rikers Island and release its inmates into the streets; she has also expressed vocal anti-Israel views. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, US Representative, 14th Congressional District (parts of central Queens and south Bronx)<\/h2>\n<p>Fidel Castro-idolizing AOC needed a hook the minute she first took office in 2018. She uniquely packages ignorance, stupidity, incomprehensibility, hypocrisy and ideological lunacy in a single congressional seat.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/21\/house-dems-visit-israel-after-aoc-claimed-it-cages-palestinian-kids\/\">Virulently anti-Israel<\/a>, she refused to vote for funds to bolster that nation\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/24\/aoc-says-sorry-to-nyc-district-for-iron-dome-vote\/\"> Iron Dome anti-missile system<\/a>, which is a strictly defensive weapon to shoot down rockets aimed at civilians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/aoc-present-vote-israel-iron-dome-cried-tears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">She said, <\/a>\u201cI wept at an institution choosing a path of maximum volatility and minimum consideration for its own political convenience.\u201d Translation, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>AOC wants to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/24\/harlem-politician-tells-aoc-to-keep-defund-the-police-hands-off-her-community\/\">defund the NYPD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/09\/22\/de-blasio-slams-aocs-rikers-island-reform-proposal\/\">close Rikers Island and release its inmates into the streets. <\/a>The self-professed, two-faced socialist has modeled fancy duds by designers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CG-aEX6gv4a\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Loewe<\/a>, Carolina Herrera and Christian Louboutin. Let\u2019s hope voters in her redrawn district send her back to tending bar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/andrea-stewart-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/andrea-stewart-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Carl Heastie\" class=\"wp-image-22599978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/andrea-stewart-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/andrea-stewart-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/andrea-stewart-cousins-carl-heastie.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Stewart-Cousins (l) and Heastie helped enact reform laws that have allowed numerous criminals back on the street by eliminating cash-bail requirements \u2014 even for violent felons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS, State Senate Majority Leader<br \/>CARL HEASTIE, State Assembly Speaker<\/h2>\n<p>The damage these powerful, \u201cprogressive\u201d legislators have done to criminal justice in New York State \u2014 and especially in the Big Apple \u2014 is Homeric in scale. They pushed through <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/15\/andrea-stewart-cousins-blame-gov-hochul-for-bail-law-too\/\">\u201cbail reform\u201d laws in 2019 (<\/a>which former Gov. Andrew Cuomo disgracefully signed) that all but eliminated cash bail, even for many violent felons \u2014 allowing innumerable criminals to be back on streets in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in every other state, the new rules denied judges discretion from taking into account a suspect\u2019s past record and likelihood of posing a danger to the community. The result? Evil-doers have\u00a0the run of the town. They\u2019ve included armed gang members who killed rivals and hit innocent children in crossfires, psychotics who shove people onto subway tracks and molesters of 12-year-old girls.<\/p>\n<p>Heastie and Stewart-Cousins shrug off Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 pleas to take into account the havoc their laws have caused. They are beholden to a woke agenda in service of mollycoddling mostly black and Latino lawbreakers while ignoring the carnage they\u2019ve wrought in mostly black and Latino communities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/brad-lander-2.jpg\" alt=\"Comptroller Brad Lander\" class=\"wp-image-22599985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/brad-lander-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>New York City Comptroller Brad Lander says he wants to reduce the City\u2019s police budget by at least $1 billion. Lander is also opposed to a widely-supported redevelopment plan for the Flushing waterfront. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for One Fair Wage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>BRAD LANDER, City Comptroller<\/h2>\n<p>Far-left Lander wants to chop at least <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/28\/defund-police-backer-brad-lander-to-have-nypd-security-detail-as-comptroller\/\">$1 billion from the NYPD budget<\/a>. His job blessedly doesn\u2019t allow him to do that, but it\u2019s bad enough that he bases his stewardship over $248 billion in city pension funds partly on priorities involving climate, sustainability and social justice \u2013 which have little to do with getting the highest return for cops, firefighters and other municipal unions.<\/p>\n<p>As a Council member, he voted against rezoning a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/12\/why-leftie-brad-lander-should-not-be-elected-nyc-comptroller\/\">sliver of Flushing waterfront <\/a>\u2013 which has been off-limits to the public for decades \u2013 to allow apartment and retail construction. Even the left-leaning Council overwhelmingly approved it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kristin-richardson-jordan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/kristin-richardson-jordan.jpg\" alt=\"Councilmember Kristin Richardson Jordan\" class=\"wp-image-22599992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kristin-richardson-jordan.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kristin-richardson-jordan.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kristin-richardson-jordan.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Council-member Kristin Richardson Jordan helped kill a major revitalization plan for Harlem\u2019s 145th Street corridor that would have offered much-need housing for low-and moderate-income families. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>KRISTIN RICHARDSON JORDAN, Council member, Central Harlem<\/h2>\n<p>Jordan single-handedly killed a project at West 145th Street that would have replaced empty lots with new apartments, half of which would have been affordable to moderate- and low-income families. This was after the developer, who needed a zoning change,\u00a0had made concession after concession to appease her.<\/p>\n<p>The plan known as One45 would have harmed no one while bringing the neighborhood desperately needed new housing. It required no evictions. It was such a no-brainer that even left-leaning Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine was dismayed over losing it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/michael-gianaris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/michael-gianaris.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Michael Gianaris\" class=\"wp-image-22600002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/michael-gianaris.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/michael-gianaris.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/michael-gianaris.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>New York State Senator Michael Gianaris is roundly credited with squashing the massive Amazon second campus development plan \u2014 a huge loss for Long Island City, which needed the jobs and tax revenue Amazon would have delivered.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>MICHAEL GIANARIS, New York State Senator, 12th District (western Queens)<\/h2>\n<p>The rabidly anti-development legislator delivered the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/02\/14\/this-is-the-man-who-delivered-the-death-blow-to-amazon-deal\/\">killing blow to Amazon\u2019s <\/a>dream of setting up a large regional headquarters in Long Island City. His opposition to state and city subsidies for Amazon prompted the company to pull the plug on the proposal in early 2019, thus depriving the city of thousands of jobs and tax and other revenues far greater than the value of the subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Gianaris\u2019s power was courtesy of state legislator Andrea Stewart-Cousins (see above) who appointed him to the\u00a0Public Authorities Control Board, which oversees state subsidies. At least some of his animus towards the Amazon deal was personal: sources told The Post that his feelings were hurt because\u00a0former Gov. Cuomo\u2019s didn\u2019t consult him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bill-de-blasio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/bill-de-blasio.jpg\" alt=\"Former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio\" class=\"wp-image-22600011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/bill-de-blasio.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Although he is now out of office, there are plenty of good reasons why the eight-year tenure of former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio should be \u201crecalled\u201d as little more than a bad dream.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>BILL DE BLASIO (retroactively)<\/h2>\n<p>The former mayor\u2019s eight-year tenure should be recalled as only a bad dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Franciscans finally woke up to the stupidity of their wokeness. This week, they recalled District Attorney Chesa (\u201cI prosecute nobody\u201d) Boudin, on whose watch the city\u2019s crime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512116,"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-1512028","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\/1512028","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}