The people they elect - San Francisco

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What is in the water there and how can I avoid it. From Press California:

San Fran is crawling with drugs. DA shows more concern for dealers
District attorney Chesa Boudin acknowledges that the Tenderloin District of the city is plagued by drug sellers from Honduras, but frets that arresting them isn’t really worth it.

Boudin, a former public defender who vowed as a candidate to prosecute fewer criminals, is not inclined to address how the surge in drug sales during Covid lockdowns was affecting city residents, and instead focused on the plight of the drug dealers themselves.

Many were trafficked and their families were at risk at home if they cooperated with authorities, Boudin said in a webinar last week.

Therefore, authorities shouldn’t arrest or prosecute them, said Boudin.

Apple - tree. The Chicago Sun-Times has a bit on Chesa's family:

Raised by radicals in Chicago, he’s about to become San Francisco’s new top prosecutor
Chesa Boudin’s life story sounds like something out of a right-winger’s nightmares.

The son of two left-wing radicals convicted for their roles as getaway drivers in an infamous 1981 armored-car robbery, he was raised in Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former leaders of the Weather Underground, a militant offshoot of the group Students for a Democratic Society.

During graduate school, Boudin headed to Venezuela to explore that nation’s revolutionary upheaval.

A bit more:

On Oct. 20, 1981, just two months after Boudin’s first birthday, his mother Kathy Boudin dropped him off at a babysitter’s house. Then, she and Boudin’s father David Gilbert took part in the robbery of a Brinks armored car to fund their revolutionary activities. The heist resulted in the killings of two police officers and a Brinks guard. Kathy Boudin, sentenced to 20 years to life, was paroled in 2003. Gilbert remains in a New York prison.

Dohrn and Ayers had come out of hiding only a year earlier, following their own involvement with the Weather Underground, a small group that led a campaign of politically motivated bombings in the 1970s.

Dohrn and Ayers are neck deep in Obama's Presidency - Obama made the decision to become a Senator and then run for President in their living room. Both Michelle and Barry had close ties with them when they were starting out their "community organizing" careers. They are still deeply involved in "progressive" (AKA - Communist) politics in Illinois and still seek to overthrow the government of the US. Stories here and here. When Obama was called on his association with these known terrorists, he prevaricated: This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.

Pants on fire. I wonder when and IF California will come to its senses. Beautiful state and some fine people live there but the big cities?

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