SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 6.12.2024
It pains me to write this as a Progressive.
I am a long time supporter of Chesa Boudin.
The causes he espouses and fought for as San Francisco District Attorney. Before his political lynching, funded with 9M MAGA disinformation money on June 7, 2022.
Since his ouster Chesa has decamped to the UC Berkeley School of Law where he founded the Criminal Law & Justice Center. Recruiting law students to join the battle for Progressive justice in an increasingly law and order America.
To support this laudable endeavor Chesa has turned to someone whose positions on criminal justice are antithetical to the progressive justice movement.
Venture capitalist “crypto billionaire” Chris Larsen just donated 1M to the San Francisco Police Department. It will be divvied up between the City’s 10 police stations to use as they see fit.
Chris Larsen donated to the recently voter approved Prop E in March 2024 which gives SFPD cops more power while truncating the oversight authority of the Police Commission.
Chris Larsen is also a contributor to the election campaign of the current San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins. Who worked for Chesa Boudin as an assistant DA. She Quit and worked on the political coup d’etat which drove him from office. Jenkins was rewarded for her treachery by Mayor London Breed, leader of the Recall. She appointed Jenkins DA.
But, wait a minute.
This is the same Chris Larsen who donated at least 100K in opposition to Chesa’s Recall in June 2022.
This is the same Chris Larsen who is contributing to Chesa’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.
I realize politics makes for strange bedfellows. Nonetheless, I find it perplexing that Chesa Boudin, the fighter for progressive justice, is taking money from a man who espouses and funds causes and candidates antithetical to what Chesa is all about.
Top photo: Chesa Boudin on the night of the Recall – June 7, 2022 – San Francisco Chronicle
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