Chesa Boudin Recall: Sufficient signatures verified to vote on elimination of San Francisco district lawyer
SAN FRANCISCO – Officials with the San Francisco Electoral Department said Tuesday the department certified a petition to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, election officials said.
The special election to recall Boudin will take place on June 7, 2022 during the nationwide primaries.
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About two weeks ago, the group Safer SF Without Boudin announced that they have already collected 83,487 signatures from voters in San Francisco who want to recall Boudin – far more than the 30,000 needed for the June vote.
The group claims Boudin failed to prioritize public safety by being too lenient to repeat offenders.
Two former prosecutors for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, former assistant prosecutor Brooke Jenkins and former prosecutor Don du Bain, have joined the recall.
Safer SF Without Boudin has said the recall effort will be democratic.
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However, the Stand with Chesa group, which opposed the recall, has claimed that the recall efforts are being led by Republicans.
Make no mistake: these Republican-led efforts to defeat an election are fueled by scare-mongers and dangerous misinformation. They are driving this recall at a time when we should focus on public health and economic recovery from the devastating effects of the pandemic. “Our city,” Stand with Chesa said in a statement on the group’s website.
Boudin, a former assistant public defender for the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, took office in 2020 after beating former interim attorney Suzy Loftus in a close race. After his victory, Boudin said his office would focus on bold new initiatives like ending cash bail, reducing pre-trial detention, ending the three-strike rule and establishing a program to restore justice.
Since taking office, however, Boudin has faced severe criticism, including from the San Francisco Police Officers Association.
In January, when 45-year-old Troy McAllister was paroled for armed robbery, he fatally beat two women – Elizabeth Platt, 60, and Hanako Abe, 27 – as they were crossing the street while McAllister had a stolen one Car drove.
After revealing that McAllister had been paroled and arrested several times since then without charge, Boudin admitted the two women’s deaths were preventable and said his office would make “systematic changes” in how it worked with its partner agencies. including police and probation officers.
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