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What Next - The Real Lesson of San Francisco's D.A. Recall

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

San Francisco is all but short-hand for “liberal American city,” but their progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin just got booted from office in a not-so-close recall. Elected as part of a wave of progressive prosecutors, why is Boudin now out, while his reformer-minded peers remain popular? And what does it mean for criminal justice reform in America? 


Guest: Jessica Brand, founder and co-director of the Wren Collective, a consulting service focused on transforming the criminal justice system.


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0:36.0

San Francisco is a breeding ground for progressive politicians Harvey Milk,

0:41.0

Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris. There is though a politician who was hoping

0:47.6

to carry on that mantle. His name, Chesa boot. This was never about one vote count. It was never

0:58.0

about one election night party. This is a movement not a moment in history.

1:05.8

Chesa boot is the soon to be former San Francisco district attorney.

1:11.2

Boon lost his job last week after voters overwhelmingly turned him out of office in a special recall

1:17.8

election. This recall of DA booting started the day that voters put him in office.

1:28.0

That's Jessica Brandt. She's a political consultant who focuses on the criminal justice system

1:33.3

through her organization, the RIN Collective. She's worked with progressive candidates around

1:38.3

the country. And few places are more linked to progressive causes than San Francisco. A city that

1:45.4

as of late has come under the spotlight for homelessness and crime to the issues that propelled

1:51.6

Boon's loss. People are afraid people's lives have been destabilized. People's lives are

1:56.5

offended. I think that's a really, really important factor in that city. And so you have a lot of

2:02.4

people who are already having anxiety and they have anger at their government because policies

2:08.8

have been ineffective and they've been looking for an outlet for that anger.

2:12.7

The San Francisco district attorney race became the target for much of the city's anger.

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