SF Politics Matt Dorsey’s Appointment to D6 Supervisor Throws More Gas On Blazing Debate Over Crime and Cops Mayor Breed’s appointment of SFPD PR guy Matt Dorsey is being seen as a favor to the police department and Recall Chesa Boudin movement, but while Dorsey is well-respected at City Hall, the oppo research on him is already starting to emerge.
SF Politics Your June 7 Ballot Election Ballot Has Taken Shape, With Eight Local Ballot Measures, Including The Boudin Recall Your mail-in ballots will start arriving next week (!) as yet another election looms, with primary elections for Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi and Alex Padilla, plus eight SF ballot measures, including a DA recall you may have heard about.
SF Politics YIMBY/Tech PAC Going After Supervisors Mar and Chan, Hopes to Raise $300k to Recall Boudin Hoping to make the school board recall an ongoing wedge issue for progressive supervisors, a new PAC is targeting two supes who opposed it, and announced an ambitious fundraising goal for the Boudin recall.
SF Politics New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Speaks After High-Profile Defeat in Prosecution of Officer for Police Beating After losing the trial in the first use-of-force case brought against an on-duty SFPD officer, DA Chesa Boudin says “You can’t be scared to lose,” and is still prosecuting cases against five other officers.
SF Politics Boudin’s Office Releases 2021 Prosecution and Conviction Data, Opponents and Supporters Both Say ‘I Told You So’ District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office released an annual report on SF convictions and prosecutions, giving both sides grist on whether he’s prosecuting hard, or hardly prosecuting.
SF Politics Chinatown Plastic Bat Attack Victim Drops Lawsuit Against Chesa Boudin After explosive allegations against DA Chesa Boudin’s office wilted under scrutiny, a 69-year-old Vietnamese American man has dropped his lawsuit claiming that Boudin violated his rights, and both sides are taking conciliatory tones.
SF Politics Key Takeaways From Chesa Boudin's New York Times Interview Embattled SF District Attorney, who would like not to be embattled much longer, once again defended himself in the national press, more or less stoically, in a new interview with the New York Times.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Booed Rather Roundly, Followed By Handful of Hecklers at Lunar New Year Parade Combine a controversial district attorney with a parade being held in a neighborhood where he is not terribly popular, and you get Chesa Boudin getting booed along Saturday's Lunar New Year Parade route.
SF Politics Breed Goes on ‘Meet the Press’ as Small Potatoes, Off-Year School Board Recall Still Making National Headlines SF’s low-turnout, off-year local school board race is still generating national coverage as a revolt against the “woke left,” and Mayor London Breed hit ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to ride that narrative.
SF Politics SF Recalls Largely Funded by ‘Neighbors for a Better San Francisco’ PAC, Which Is Based in San Rafael A full two-thirds of the Recall Chesa Boudin money, and 25% of Recall the School Board contributions, comes from a secretive PAC called “Neighbors for a Better San Francisco,” which lists its address as being in San Rafael.
SF Politics Supervisors OK $700K Settlement for Police Beating Victim, In Case Where SFPD Is Basically at War With Boudin High drama unfolded Tuesday as the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement for a police beating victim, but the supervisors’ charged debate shows that major new battle lines are being drawn in the Recall Chesa Boudin campaign.
SF Politics State Watchdog Dismisses SF Democrats’ Complaint That Recall Chesa Boudin Ads Were ‘Unlawful and Misleading’ The California Fair Political Practices Commission has tossed out an ethics complaint from the SF Democratic Party, which alleged that the ads didn’t disclose how they featured a spokesperson being paid $16,000 a month.
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Says SFPD Withdrawl From Investigation Agreement Is Political, Made Under Pressure From Police Union Embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin continues to push back against his critics and those who want him recalled in an election this spring, and this week he's having to engage in a war of words with the police chief.
SF Politics Lawsuit Against Boudin Over ‘Brutal’ Chinatown Attack Seems a Little Shaky as Further Details Emerge Allegations of a horrible-sounding baseball bat attack against an Asian senior sound a little less horrible as we learn that the baseball bat was a plastic toy, and the alleged attackers were a disabled man in a wheelchair and an 11-year-old boy.
SF Politics ‘Recall Chesa’ Campaign Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Alleged Ad Violations The Recall Chesa Boudin campaign’s $16,000-a-month spokesperson is the only person who appears in their latest glossy mailer, and the local Democratic party has filed a complaint that this is a campaign violation.
SF Politics SFPD Predictably Furious After Boudin Drops Charges In Alleged Assault of Police The police union and SFPD Chief Bill Scott are up in arms that charges were dropped in an alleged stabbing of an officer, but the suspect certainly took more of the beating, and details may have been too flimsy for a guilty verdict.
SF Politics Boudin Wins Guilty Verdict in Fatal Shooting of Six-Year-Old, Critics Still Furious Shooter Was Tried as a Minor It’s a win that Boudin got guilty verdicts on murder and weapons charges in the killing of six-year-old Jace Young, but a loss in the eyes of those upset he tried the defendant as a minor, meaning a far shorter prison sentence.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Campaign Releases First TV Ad, Featuring Paid Campaign Staff The first Recall Chesa TV ad starts airing Thursday night, and tells you that “Chesa Boudin is failing.” It does not tell you which people featured in the ad are paid recall campaign staff.
SF Politics Boudin’s Former Prosecutor Continues Fuming Over Case Where DA Didn't Fight Insanity Plea One of the prosecutors who left the DA’s office, and made a big stink to the press about doing so, continues to air complaints about a homicide case she prosecuted where Boudin ended up relenting to an insanity plea from the suspect.
SF Politics Boudin Brings Homicide Charges Against SFPD Officer Who Shot Mentally Ill Man in 2017 Chesa Boudin will not be winning any popularity contests with the Police Officers Association, as he has now charged another on-duty officer with homicide, which no previous DA had done before. Boudin has now done it twice.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Effort Submits More Than Enough Signatures, Recall Election Likely Coming The Recall Chesa crowd submitted 83,000 signatures Friday, and kicked off a PR blitz to welcoming media outlets, as it now appears the recall election will definitely be happening in 2022.
SF Politics Original Recall Chesa Boudin Effort Fails To Get Enough Signatures Today is the signature deadline for the first Recall Chesa campaign, and they reportedly fell 1,700 signatures short of the number they needed.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Boudin Campaign Tried to Advertise on Nextdoor, Ads Were Quickly Removed One faction of the Recall Chesa Boudin movement bought roughly $2,000 in ads on Nextdoor, but the neighborhood-centric social network removed the ads and returned the payments.
SF Politics Washington Post Calls Out ‘Inaccurate’ Reporting by Chesa Boudin’s Local Media Critics The media fascination with Chesa Boudin regularly produces national headlines, but now at least one national news source is casting a skeptical eye on the local news coverage of the SF district attorney.
