Boudin said that he was recalled because of general frustrations in San Francisco.
"People are angry, they're frustrated, and I want to be very clear about what happened tonight: The right-wing billionaires outspent us three to one, they exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset, and they created an electoral dynamic where we were literally shadowboxing," Boudin said."Voters were not given an opportunity to choose between criminal justice reform and something else.
Boudin later said of his tenure in office,"we've made mistakes," but did not specify what he believes those mistakes are. It is true that Boudin took the brunt of voter dissatisfaction about San Francisco crime. Homicides and
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