What Next - The Real Lesson of San Francisco's D.A. Recall
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🗓️ 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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| 0:35.4 | San Francisco is a breeding ground for progressive politicians, Harvey Milk, |
| 0:40.4 | Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris. There is, though, a politician who was hoping |
| 0:47.0 | to carry on that mantle. His name, Chesa Buden. |
| 0:50.8 | This was never about one vote count. It was never about one election night party. |
| 0:59.8 | This is a movement, not a moment, in history. |
| 1:05.2 | Chesa Buden is the soon-to-be former San Francisco district attorney. |
| 1:10.7 | Buden lost his job last week after voters overwhelmingly turned him out of office |
| 1:16.1 | in a special recall election. This recall of Dua Buden started the day that voters put him in office. |
| 1:27.5 | That's Jessica Brandt. She's the political consultant who focuses on the criminal justice system |
| 1:32.8 | through her organization, the RIN Collective. She's worked with progressive candidates around |
| 1:37.7 | the country. And few places are more linked to progressive causes than San Francisco, |
| 1:44.1 | a city that, as of late, has come under the spotlight for homelessness and crime, |
| 1:49.5 | to the issues that propelled Buden's loss. People are afraid. People's lives have been destabilized, |
| 1:55.2 | people's lives are abended. I think that's a really, really important factor in that city. |
| 2:00.2 | And so you have a lot of people who are already having anxiety and they have anger at their |
| 2:06.8 | government because policies have been ineffective and they've been looking for an outlet for that anger. |
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