San Fran voters boot lefty DA Boudin

San Francisco voters overwhelmingly ousted progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a recall election that focused on exasperation with crime in the famously liberal city.

Boudin, whose mother was the late Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin, was recalled from office by a wide 60%-to-40% margin, although turnout was light.

Boudin must leave office within 10 days. A replacement picked by Mayor London Breed will serve his term until the next election in November 2023.

Recall proponents cheered the results as a sign their concerns about crime and quality-of-life issues were being heard, but insisted they are not conservative Republicans in disguise.

“San Francisco has been a national beacon for progressive criminal justice reform for decades and will continue to do so with new leadership,” said Mary Jung, a recall leader.

Boudin, 41, defiantly said the movement for racial justice and police accountability would live on.

“We have two systems of justice. We have one for the wealthy and the well connected and a different one for everybody else,” he said. “And that’s exactly what we are fighting to change.”

Kathy Boudin died of cancer just last month at 78. A self-professed radical, she spent two decades in prison for her role in a deadly 1981 armored car robbery.

Chesa Boudin, who was raised by adoptive parents while his mom languished behind bars, was swept into office in 2019 amid a wave of progressive prosecutors who vowed to bring justice to Black and Latino communities, end the racist war on drugs, and hold cops accountable for brutality.

That push was a hard sell even in liberal San Francisco, where open drug use, rampant petty crime and random violence are the norm.