San Francisco’s recall vote sets progressive Democrats back
If you have been to San Francisco any time in the past few years, you will probably understand why residents there just voted to recall the city’s ultra-progressive district attorney.Once vibrant and hip, and a beacon for creative-class types from around the world, San Francisco is the opposite of all that now. Its downtown streets are filthy, destroyed by homelessness and drug addiction, and boarded-up properties have given the city an eerie and dystopian vibe.
Earlier this year, residents voted to recall three members of the San Francisco Board of Education, blaming the trio for wasting too much time on a crusade to rename a third of the city’s schools – including one originally named in honour of Abraham Lincoln – instead of working to return kids to the classroom during the pandemic.
And while Mr. Boudin could not be blamed for problems that predated his election, he was seen as having made them worse.“They did it because he didn’t seem to care that he was making the citizens of our city miserable in service of an ideology that made sense everywhere but in reality,” Nellie Bowles wrote“Residents had hoped Boudin would reform the criminal-justice system and treat low-level offenders more humanely.
While gun control and the House of Representatives committee hearings into the Capitol Hill riot of Jan. 6, 2021, are sucking up most of the oxygen in Washington now, and despite a potentially explosive Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights anticipated to arrive later this month, many political analysts think November’s midterm elections are more likely to turn on voter concerns about rising crime and inflation.
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