Recall City: Will This Be San Francisco's New Normal?

San Francisco CA

15 November, 2021

6:58 PM

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By Joe Eskenazi, Mission Local November 15, 2021 It was hard to imagine San Francisco politics becoming even more dysfunctional and toxic and petty and comically dramatized, but here we are. The mayor in 2021 is urging We the People to recall her 2018 appointee — so she can name more appointees. So, check that one off your list: That Rubicon has been crossed. The recalls of three Board of Education members have qualified for the ballot, as has the recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin. On top of that, we'll be voting an ungodly number of times in the next year: It'll be four separate votes for David Chiu's former Assembly seat alone. So these recall elections are going to occur in a dysfunctional and toxic and petty and comically dramatized context, with San Francisco's overburdened voters overburdened in a manner even we may never have been overburdened before. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.