{"id":22817,"date":"2022-06-22T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:17:36","slug":"letters-to-the-chronicle-how-the-boudin-recall-is-a-failure-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/letters-to-the-chronicle-how-the-boudin-recall-is-a-failure-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Chronicle: How the Boudin recall is a failure of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>June 20, 2022 (SFChronicle.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/26\/20\/52\/22612662\/3\/1200x0.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin prepares to give a concession speech at his election night party at the Ramp June 7 in San Francisco. He was recalled by city voters.\"\/><figcaption>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin prepares to give a concession speech at his election night party at the Ramp June 7 in San Francisco. He was recalled by city voters.Gabrielle Lurie\/The Chronicle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chesa Boudin recall was legitimate but a failure of democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boudin was elected with a promise to reform the San Franicisco District Attorney Office\u2019s policies to divert more low-level offenders into treatment instead of jail. And that\u2019s just what he\u2019s done. But he was elected by the narrowest of margins, 50.8% to the runner-up Suzy Loftus\u2019 49.2%. Including exhausted ballots, Boudin garnered only 44.9% of those who voted. Nevertheless, he did win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/img\/logos\/black\/logo.svg\" alt=\"San Francisco Chronicle Homepage - Site Logo\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/img\/core\/hearst_newspapers_logo.svg\" alt=\"HEARST newspapers logo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a92022 Hearst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 20, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) The Chesa Boudin recall was legitimate but a failure of democracy. Boudin was elected with a promise to reform the San Franicisco District Attorney Office\u2019s policies to divert more low-level offenders into treatment instead of jail. And that\u2019s just what he\u2019s done. But he was elected&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/06\/22\/letters-to-the-chronicle-how-the-boudin-recall-is-a-failure-of-democracy\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22818,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions\/22818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}