SF Politics DA Jenkins Defends Secretive $100,000 Payment from Anti-Boudin Group, Which Turns Out Was Actually $153,000 In her first interview on the matter of a previously unreported $100,000 payment, which we now learn was a $153,000 payment, SF DA Brooke Jenkins continues to insist that her consulting for a group bankrolling the recall was unrelated to the recall.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin and His Supporters Seize On Revelation About Brooke Jenkins's Recall Payday: 'Integrity Is Central to the Job of DA' The dirty secret about District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's paid involvement in the campaign to oust her predecessor and former boss, Chesa Boudin, was bound to come out eventually, and it's sparking a lot of chatter.
SF Politics New DA Brooke Jenkins Got $100,000 From Anti-Boudin Political Organization Nice “volunteer” work if you can get it! Brooke Jenkins claimed she was a volunteer for the recall campaign, but new campaign finance filings show she was paid a cool $100,000 as a consultant to a group that largely financed the recall.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Won't Run For DA Again In November, Citing Family Obligations; Won't Rule Out 2023 Run Probably wisely, recalled San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is going to sit out this year from campaigning and attempting to regain the DA's office, citing the need to spend more time with his family.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Makes First Post-Recall Remarks, Carefully Avoids Spiking Football In the wake of Tuesday’s recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, London Breed struck a conciliatory “Now is a time for healing” note, and served word salad designed to appeal to both sides.
SF Politics San Francisco Voters Recall DA Chesa Boudin and Everyone Including Ann Coulter Has Something to Say About It SF voters who were convinced that recalling progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin would solve the city's crime troubles may not all appreciate being cheered on by Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter, but that is what's happening.
SF Politics New York Media Already Has Undies In Bunch Over Tuesday's Boudin Recall Election New York City is 3,000 miles away, but its newspapers of record are all going full-bore with lengthy features obsessing over ‘what it all means’ that San Francisco is about to hold a DA recall election.
SF Politics In Completely Foregone Conclusion, New Supe Dorsey Endorses Recall of DA Boudin The new supervisor who was on the SFPD payroll up until last month has, very unsurprisingly, endorsed the recall of the district attorney whom the SFPD hates with a white-hot passion.
SF News Only One SF-Based Media Outlet Has Openly Supported Recalling DA Chesa Boudin Out of all of San Francisco's many media outlets — physical newspapers, online magazines, digital news outlets, etc. — only one has outright endorsed Prop H. Want to guess which one?
SF Politics Report: SFPD Refused to Participate in Quickly Burglary Ring Bust, Boudin Had to Rent His Own U-Haul New reporting on the DA's Office raid on a Tenderloin Quickly shop earlier this month alleges that police said “they were too busy” to assist in the bust, and that DA Boudin had to rent his own U-Haul to carry out the operation.
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.
