Recall Chesa Boudin Chairman: First Thing that Chesa Boudin Did Was Throw a Monkey Wrench in San Francisco’s Justice System

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GREENBERG: "You know, there was this concern when Chesa Bouding was even a candidate back in 2019. He had zero experience prosecuting any criminals whatsoever. He came from the defense side. He exploited a loophole where, believe it or not, there’s still a lot of people here that don’t understand that here in San Francisco, at least, you don’t need to even have prosecutorial experience to run as the D.A., as a candidate. And he did. He ran against three very well-qualified prosecutors. He won. He got elected, and then the first week of January 2020 he was sworn into office. The first thing he did, to throw a monkey wrench into the works, to throw the whole criminal justice system in disarray, he fired seven of San Francisco’s most prominent, most experienced prosecutors. That was the whole start. So, all of 2020, even under Covid — and he likes to use that as an excuse, blame everything on Covid, which is not really true — for all of 2020 we saw multiple examples of his incompetence, of his malicious intent, of his policies that he was trying to put into place. And by New Year’s Eve 2020/2021, that fateful, very unfortunate day, that Friday, there was a paroled felon — we keep hearing this over and over again, paroled felons, they rob, they steal at gunpoint — this particular individual, Troy McAlister, he was drunk in a stolen car, with drugs and a handgun, I believe, lost control and crashed and hit two innocent women that were on the street there in the south part of San Francisco-Selma area. That was the last straw for San Franciscans and the last straw for me. That became the impetus. That particular — Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt, God rest their souls, they are the ones, were the impetus to get this recall going."