Recall Chesa Boudin: San Francisco Should Remove Their D.A.

Recent polling indicates that 64 percent of San Francisco Democrats support recalling their district attorney, Chesa Boudin. San Francisco Democrats are right to feel this way. We urge voters to vote for his removal tomorrow.

For those in need of an introduction, Boudin is left-wing royalty. When he was 14 months old, his parents were arrested and convicted of murder for their role in the Brink’s armored-car robbery of 1981, which killed two cops and a Brink’s guard. They were members of the left-wing Weather Underground. He was raised by fellow Weather Underground members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Boudin temporarily served as a translator in the Venezuela Presidential Palace under Hugo Chávez.

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Recent polling indicates that 64 percent of San Francisco Democrats support recalling their district attorney, Chesa Boudin. San Francisco Democrats are right to feel this way. We urge voters to vote for his removal tomorrow.

For those in need of an introduction, Boudin is left-wing royalty. When he was 14 months old, his parents were arrested and convicted of murder for their role in the Brink’s armored-car robbery of 1981, which killed two cops and a Brink’s guard. They were members of the left-wing Weather Underground. He was raised by fellow Weather Underground members Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Boudin temporarily served as a translator in the Venezuela Presidential Palace under Hugo Chávez.