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.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Effort Has Split Into Two Battling Factions, Both Lagging In Contributions The effort to recall DA Chesa Boudin splits into two enemy groups that are taking public potshots at each other, while recall opponents have raised more than twice as much money as the recallers.
SF News SF Man With Alleged Domestic Violence History Charged In Killing of Infant In His Care A suspect with a history of prior arrests for domestic incidents has been arrested and charged in the April 20 death of a 7-month-old boy in San Francisco who had been left in his care.
SF Politics Second Group Emerges With Campaign to Recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin While one group has already been campaigning to recall San Francisco's progressive district attorney just over a year after his swearing in, a second committee has formed with perhaps different political leanings than the first, but the same end goal.
SF Politics Fight Against Boudin’s Recall Gets $100,000 Gift From Gascón PAC Remember George Gascón? Both SF district attorney Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles DA Gascón face recall efforts, a pro-Gascón PAC has made a lavish contribution to help Boudin.
SF Politics A Third of All ‘Recall Chesa Boudin’ Donations Come From One Tech Donor In yet another case of a recall campaign being largely financially dependent on an individual tycoon, a third of the money going to the Chesa Boudin ouster attempt is financed by “PayPal Mafia” investor David Sacks.
