San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger · 11 Oct 2021 · 572pp · 124,222 words
officials, because the people doing those things are victims of racism, poverty, and trauma. When he ran for office in 2018, San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin announced, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk
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of Catholic University, is that “none of the data on police shootings can tell us whether racial bias is a motivating factor.”39 In 2019, Chesa Boudin won an underdog campaign against opposition from the city’s police union, the Police Officers Association, to become San Francisco’s district attorney. “I was
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fight the racists and fascists.’” Over the years, anti-police rhetoric and policies became increasingly mainstream in progressive cities. At the election night party for Chesa Boudin in 2019, progressive San Francisco supervisors Matt Haney, Hillary Ronen, and former supervisors Jane Kim and David Campos joined Boudin on the dais and gave
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, often with the significant support from nonprofit activists funded by local governments, have attacked mayors as uncaring. Growing progressive power culminated in the election of Chesa Boudin in 2019, the Seattle Capitol Hill Occupied Protest of 2020, and demands that the homeless, mentally ill, and substance abusers be immune from prosecution in
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the Answer to Quality-of-Life Crimes in SF: DA Candidates Give Answers,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2019, www.sfchronicle.com. 69. Gabe Stutman, “Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s D.A.-Elect, Talks Homelessness, Jewishness and Taking on the Establishment,” Jewish News of Northern California, December 26, 2019, www.jweekly.com
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. 70. Chesa Boudin, interview by Alicia Garza (Inforum series, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, February 13, 2020), YouTube video, 1:07:54, www.youtube.com. 71. Phil Matier, “Shopping
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–2014.” 39. Brandon Vaidyanathan, “Systemic Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System Is Not a Myth,” Public Discourse, June 29, 2020, www.thepublicdiscourse.com. 40. Chesa Boudin, interview by Alicia Garza (Inforum series, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, February 13, 2020), YouTube video, 1:07:54, www.youtube.com. 41. Ibid. 42. “California
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Francisco County Jails,” San Francisco Sheriff, San Francisco Department of Public Health, April 8, 2016, www.sfdph.org/dph/files/jrp/WG-MeetingCombined.pdf. 26. Chesa Boudin, interview by Alicia Garza (Inforum series, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, February 13, 2020), YouTube video, 1:07:54, www.youtube.com. 27. Kate Wolffe, “‘Recycled
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to Ban Dealers from Tenderloin,” KQED, September 25, 2020, www.kqed.org. 28. Michael Solana, interview by the author, January 8, 2021. 29. Lauren Hernández, “Chesa Boudin Offers Theories on Why Burglaries Are on Upswing in Bernal Heights,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 11, 2021, www.sfchronicle.com. 30. Thomas Wolf, interview by
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
later he donated to the failed recall effort against Newsom—along with successful recall campaigns against the San Francisco school board and progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin. After advising his friend Musk on his takeover of Twitter, Sacks, who had written culture-warring conservative columns in the 1990s with his college pal
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vanquished the woke officials apparently corrupting the city’s school board, Sacks became a leading supporter of the effort to recall San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive prosecutor who achieved supervillain status in Sacks’ political cosmology as a representative of George Soros-funded reformist prosecutors who were allegedly endangering their
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in Wyoming, also received $100,000 from Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, which was the biggest donor to the campaign to recall progressive DA Chesa Boudin. After Boudin was recalled, Calacanis, speaking to the viciously anti-progressive Democrat tech exec Garry Tan, said, “This really helped.”18 Calacanis recommended that his
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the local Democratic party to the right, pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the recall of school board members, the recall of district attorney Chesa Boudin, and campaigns benefiting conservative Democrats. On social media, Tan was pugilistic to the point of belligerence, casting his political enemies as corrupt malefactors responsible for
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candidates before ultimately settling on Donald Trump. Billionaire hedge fund manager William Oberndorf—a conservative who gave to “moderate” groups supporting the recall of DA Chesa Boudin—was a major donor to establishment Republicans like Jeb Bush and former Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. North Dakota governor Doug Burgum, who ran a
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over San Francisco politics and media in the run-up to the 2024 election. Neighbors for a Better San Francisco paid Brooke Jenkins, who replaced Chesa Boudin as district attorney, as did two nonprofits that received grants from Neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Michael Moritz funded TogetherSF, the San Francisco Standard
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.gofundme.com/f/report-on-chesa-boudin-san-francisco-crime 17 https://x.com/Jason/status/1367933210156404736 18 https://x.com/Jason/status/1673102313945440256 19 https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1455700342981545986?lang
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here, here and George Soros here on TikTok here Truths: The Future of America First here and JD Vance here reactionary utopians here recalls here Chesa Boudin here George Gascón here Gavin Newsom here San Francisco Board of Education here, here Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) here, here, here
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History
by Nellie Bowles · 13 May 2024 · 207pp · 62,397 words
downgraded drug possession and also recategorized the theft of merchandise worth less than $950 as a misdemeanor. It accelerated in 2019 with the election of Chesa Boudin as district attorney. The election of Boudin was thrilling for the city. It occurred during the heights of rage against President Donald Trump, when more
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-level convictions for 37,000+ eligible SF residents.” A fact-checker wrote to Marshall, asking simply, “Is it accurate to say that, as district attorney, Chesa Boudin launched a project to expunge 37,000 low-level convictions?” “No,” Marshall responded. Boudin is a big proponent of “collaborative courts” that focus on rehabilitation
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new buildings that might risk blocking an inch of their view of the bay, San Franciscans, for years, chose the tents. * * * ▪ The anger directed at Chesa Boudin probably could have been contained. The homeless and the street drugs were bad, but it was, at least, fairly consolidated. The petty crime was frustrating
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real. The farm at 770 Woolsey? The developer finally has approval to turn it into housing. Just a few months after the school board recall, Chesa Boudin faced his own recall election. Boudin’s opponents, likewise, came from all over the city. He said they were funded by elites—and venture capitalists
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grim new record. It’s hard to argue that the solution is just to do the same things as before but more. Voters threw out Chesa Boudin. They also threw out half the school board. It was a landslide. They did it because none of those characters seemed to care that they
Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America
by William McGowan · 16 Nov 2010 · 316pp · 91,969 words
Boyd; and Raines Blind Date (Jones) Blodgett, Henry Bloomberg, Michael Blow, Charles Blumenthal, Sidney Body of Lies (film) Bond, Julian Boston Globe; purchase of Boudin, Chesa Boudin, Kathy Boudin, Leonard Bowe, John Bowen, William Bowman, Patricia Boyd, Gerald; and Jayson Blair; memoir; on Miller Boyer, Peter Boyton, Robert Bradbury, Steven G. Bradlee
The Passenger
by AA.VV. · 23 May 2022 · 192pp · 59,615 words
discussion outside the confines of our national borders difficult, but understanding this about United Statesians can help the reader to understand the following story. When Chesa Boudin was elected San Francisco district attorney with only a sliver of a majority at the beginning of 2020, the right-wing propaganda, from both parties
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words
and 2020 by a national progressive funding effort headed by billionaire George Soros. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, newly elected district attorneys such as Chesa Boudin and George Gascón declared an entire assortment of laws inert and announced that crimes from resisting arrest to prostitution would no longer be prosecuted.17