Chesa Boudin – the Soros-backed district attorney in San Francisco – didn’t just lose his recall yesterday.
He got brutalized.
Scott Johnson at Powerline, inimitable as usual:
Recall is a particularly good word in this case. He was a defective prosecutor. Among his innovations was the elimination of cash bail, the nonprosecution of a large swath of property crimes, the toleration of open-air drug dealing, and the facilitation of San Francisco’s continued descent into third-world hellhole status.
I was going to ask “will this cause other Soros/Bloomberg spawn like Keith Ellison to change anything?” Adjust messages, yes; even Ellison has to be seeing that devastating internal polling. Actual substantial long-term policy changes? Of course not; “progressivism” is eternal.
Still – it shows there’s a point beyond which even the most addled progressives, sometimes, might not let things get pushed.
Boudin learned grammar from Biden:
“. . . “The right-wing billionaires outspent us three to one, they exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset, and they created an electoral dynamic where we were literally shadowboxing,”
When there’s a backlash in ultra-progressive San Francisco, you know things have gone too far.
brutalized? 24% turnout? brutalized? really…. he lost and good riddance, but brutalized? I thought you had better sense than to and better command of language, Mitch. brutalized? Pffft…
Gascon had already been put on notice…
I read three news articles, including one from the WSJ, and they all implied (two more explicitly) that Boudin was a victim circumstances and politics, not his policies. One even stated that crime had actually gone down under his watch (well, yeah – if you don’t arrest people there’s a lot less reporting).
Oh those silly, died-in-the-wool Dems in SF, so easily manipulated by right-wing shadow campaigns!
This is a good start. Now let’s see about disbarring him.
Modern liberals are good at reducing crime in the same way an arsonist is good at extinguishing forest fires.
With widespread violent crime, and violently unstable homeless people, the only short and medium term solution is being tough on crime and a zero-tolerance approach (i.e. strict mandatory minimum sentences for violent criminals, so locking very bad people away for long periods of time). Otherwise, you are simply letting dangerous individuals stay on the streets and cause havoc.
Of course in the long run — yes you need youth clubs, shelter and homes for the homeless, free social care, anti-drugs initiatives etc etc, but all that can take decades to reduce crime. So in the short run you unfortunately need to incarcerate those that are causing misery and pain — why don’t liberals get this?
Of course in the long run — yes you need youth clubs, shelter and homes for the homeless, free social care, anti-drugs initiatives etc etc
Really? Not to pick on Emery specifically, here, I am told pretty much the same thing by some conservatives.
But where is the proof that any of this works and is cost effective? I know that people WANT there to be a government solution to social problems, but what if there is none? It’s easy to say “free drug addiction treatment,” but the data shows that the relapse rate for addiction treatment is appalling even for those who enter programs voluntarily.
What sets San Francisco apart is disorder. A shoplifting wave, a blatant—open-air drug market, the country’s largest unsheltered homeless population, and endemic public drug use. Boudin has argued that such issues are not their problem—and decried as racist anyone who disagrees. If you want real criminal justice reform to stick — you have to be keep the streets clean.
They’re depraved on account of they’re deprived.
Considering the fact that Boudin was a product of terrorist parents, I can’t believe that even San Francisco residents didn’t anticipate this. I love his lie that he was outspent by right wing billionaires, when it was an extreme left wing billionaire’s money that got him elected in the first place. The wet dream of George Soros is to fill the entire justice system with left wing radicals.
brutalized? 24% turnout? brutalized?
The people who don’t show up don’t matter.
3/5 of those who did show up, voted against him. In a “prog” city.
That was a curb stomping.
I thought you had better sense than to and better command of language, Mitch. brutalized? Pffft…
Pick your own verb, then. It’s a free country – for now, more or less.
Gascon had already been put on notice…
This is notice-ier.
The people who don’t show up don’t matter.
But they will show up when the time comes to vote for a replacement. Care to place a wager an even more progressive will be elected by the people who do not matter?
But they will show up when the time comes to vote for a replacement.
Yep. And so will Soros and his checkbook. They’re not done.
Care to place a wager an even more progressive will be elected by the people who do not matter?
Nope. Not betting anything.
But compare yesterday with Newsom’s recall.
It took two generations to make San Francisco what it is. It may never turn back, but it it does, it own’t happen overnight.
Of course in the long run — yes you need youth clubs, shelter and homes for the homeless, free social care, anti-drugs initiatives etc etc, but all that can take decades to reduce crime.
Or perhaps, they don’t reduce crime much at all. I grew up in NW Indiana and Gary, and they’ve had all this for decades, but it’s still about the same level of hopelessness. I’d dare suggest that what’s necessary is more “you need to rebuild the family in these areas.” That will also take decades, but unlike midnight basketball, it actually has hope for helping the inner city.
And to get there, you need welfare reform, elimination of minimum wages, and yes, effective policing.
Something to keep in mind when we call for a law and order crackdown: https://reason.com/2022/06/07/this-man-says-he-spent-17-days-in-jail-after-american-airlines-wrongly-fingered-him-as-a-shoplifting-suspect/
Kansas City did a study which concluded the more police, the more incident reports. Conversely, the less police, the less reports.
Caller: My car was broken into.
911: Sorry to hear that.
Caller: I’m not liking your tone. Doesn’t sound like you are going to do anything about it.
911: That is not true. If you go to our webpage and fill out the incident report form, we will include it in our statistics.
Caller: Yeah, I’ll be sure to do that. [NOT]
Since we’re talking about prosecutors, it seems that left wing privilege has come into play, AGAIN. With the intervention of dip stick Gavin Newsom, the California Highway Patrol has dropped the DUI charges against Paul Pelosi. There’s justice for ya, peasants and conservatives!
^ boss, I didn’t know Hair Gel was involved. I think he’s Pelosi’s nephew.
jdm;
I believe that I’ve heard that, too.
I guess Chesa needs to be reminded about those “right wing billionaires”. 😂