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CDC identifies 9 HOMOSEXUAL SPREAD monkeypox cases across 7 states
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2022-06-23 00:51:08 UTC
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
identified nine cases of monkeypox across seven states as of
Wednesday, agency Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday.

The nine cases have been identified in Massachusetts, Florida,
Utah, Washington, California, Virginia, and New York, per CNN.

Most cases — except for the one in Virginia — "are within gay
[and] bisexual men and other men who have sex with men,"
Walensky said before imploring Americans to approach the virus
"guided by science, not by stigma."

"While some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right
now, infectious diseases do not care about state or
international borders. They're not contained within social
networks, and the risk of exposure is not limited to any one
particular group," Walensky said.

Samples from the nine cases were sent to the CDC for further
testing and investigation, Walensky added. Officials expect more
cases to crop up in the U.S.

Monkeypox is a more benign version of smallpox that can cause
fever, body aches, and, eventually, those characteristic fluid-
filled blisters known as "pox." The smallpox vaccine is thought
to be decently effective against the disease.

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2022-06-23 00:56:08 UTC
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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says nearly 200
cases of monkeypox have been reported in more than 20 countries
not usually known to have outbreaks of the unusual disease, but
described the epidemic as “containable” and proposed creating a
stockpile to equitably share the limited vaccines and drugs
available worldwide.

During a public briefing on Friday, the U.N. health agency said
there are still many unanswered questions about what triggered
the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox outside of Africa, but
there is no evidence that any genetic changes in the virus are
responsible.

“The first sequencing of the virus shows that the strain is not
different from the strains we can find in endemic countries and
(this outbreak) is probably due more to a change in human
behaviour,” said Dr. Sylvie Briand, WHO’s director of pandemic
and epidemic diseases.

Earlier this week, a top adviser to WHO said the outbreak in
Europe, U.S., Israel, Australia and beyond was likely linked to
sex at two recent raves in Spain and Belgium. That marks a
significant departure from the disease’s typical pattern of
spread in central and western Africa, where people are mainly
infected by animals like wild rodents and primates, and
outbreaks haven’t spilled across borders.

Although WHO said nearly 200 monkeypox cases have been reported,
that seemed a likely undercount. On Friday, Spanish authorities
said the number of cases there had risen to 98, including one
woman, whose infection is “directly related” to a chain of
transmission that had been previously limited to men, according
to officials in the region of Madrid.

U.K. officials added 16 more cases to their monkeypox tally,
making Britain’s total 106, while Portugal said its caseload
jumped to 74 cases. And authorities in Argentina on Friday
reported a monkeypox case in a man from Buenos Aires, marking
Latin America’s first infection. Officials said the man had
traveled recently to Spain and now had symptoms consistent with
monkeypox, including lesions and a fever.

Doctors in Britain, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the U.S. and
elsewhere have noted that the majority of infections to date
have been in gay and bisexual men, or men who have sex with men.

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2022-06-23 01:21:10 UTC
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New Delhi: The European Union's disease agency that the number
of monkeypox cases has reached 219 outside of countries where
the virus usually circulates. The World Health Organisation has
warned of more cases in coming days.
Here are 10 things we know about the Monkeypox outbreak:
Monkeypox, which is a less severe disease than its cousin
smallpox, is an endemic in 11 countries in West and Central
Africa.
The virus was discovered in 1958 in monkeys kept for research.
The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970.
The World Health Organization has cautioned that the 200
monkeypox cases found in recent weeks outside of countries where
it is an endemic could be just the beginning. "We know that we
will have more cases in the coming days," Sylvie Briand, WHO's
epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention chief,
acknowledged in a briefing to countries on the "unusual" spread
of the virus.
Health agencies have said that most of the cases were detected
in gay men.
The UK reported its first monkeypox case in early May. Since
then, the virus has spread rapidly in the country with the
infection count now at 90.
Spain has reported 98 confirmed cases of monkeypox so far.
Portugal has meanwhile registered 74 confirmed cases, health
authorities said Friday, adding that all the occurrences are in
men, mainly aged below 40.
Fever, muscle ache, lesions, and chills are the common symptoms
of monkeypox in humans
The virus has a fatality ratio of three to six percent. Most
people recover within three to four weeks.
There's currently no specific treatment for monkeypox. Patients
will usually need to stay in a specialist hospital so the
infection doesn't spread and general symptoms can be treated.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/monkeypox-cases-spread-tip-of-
the-iceberg-says-who-10-points-3017586
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2022-06-30 07:05:51 UTC
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CONCORD, N.H. —
The first probable case of monkeypox in New Hampshire has been
identified, health officials said Wednesday.

The patient is a resident of Rockingham County, and the
Department of Health and Human Services said that because of
privacy concerns, no further information about the patient would
be released.

The New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories first identified
the case, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is conducting tests to confirm it.

"We did testing at the state public health laboratories, which
did test positive," said Dr. Jonathan Ballard, chief medical
officer at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human
Services. "They have a quick turnaround. So in the next coming
days we'll know the confirmatory status. However, typically in
these cases that are positive at the state level, they typically
come back positive at the confirmatory stage."

DHHS officials are working to identify others who might have
been exposed.

Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which
belongs to the same group of viruses as smallpox. Transmission
of monkeypox requires close interaction with a symptomatic
person. Brief interactions do not appear to be high-risk, and
transmission has usually involved close physical or intimate
contact or health care examinations conducted not using
appropriate protective equipment, DHHS said.

Monkeypox has been present in humans since the 1970s.

"This year though, we've seen over 4,000 cases worldwide,"
Ballard said.

The incidence of monkeypox cases has been growing across the
country. The CDC identified 224 monkeypox cases in 26 states as
of June 27.

Initial symptoms typically include fever, headache, exhaustion,
muscle aches, sore throat, cough, and swollen lymph nodes. A few
days after the start of these symptoms, a skin rash or skin
spots appear that change over time.

People with monkeypox are contagious until all skin lesions have
scabbed over and fallen off a person’s skin, health officials
said. The illness usually lasts for two to four weeks. Symptoms
are usually mild, but in rare cases, a more severe illness can
occur that might require hospitalization.

Any person with a new skin rash or skin lesions concerning
monkeypox, especially if accompanied by other monkeypox
symptoms, should talk to their health care provider. Testing
should be considered if the skin rash and other symptoms
occurred:

Within a few weeks after traveling to another country where
monkeypox is being reported.
After close contact with a person who has a similar skin rash or
who is suspected or confirmed to have monkeypox.
After intimate physical or sexual contact with a partner,
especially after intimate or sexual contact that occurred during
travel.

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technology/40448042
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2022-07-04 00:59:25 UTC
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2022-07-04 02:35:45 UTC
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It was the gasp heard round the world. "They could run Michelle
Obama, and if they do ..." said Monica Crowley before the CPAC
2022 audience reeled audibly in shocked recognition, cutting her
off in mid-sentence. Crowley had seen an early screener of my
upcoming film and book of the same name, Michelle Obama 2024:
Her Real Life Story and Plan for Power, which will be released
on July 11. Crowley was not trying to make waves at CPAC. She
was trying to send a warning.

The CPAC crowd, and conservatives in general, have failed to
realize that the ever present Michelle Obama was a potential
Democrat presidential candidate. This is largely because
Michelle Obama launched a cover story for her intense political
activity back in 2008 that goes like this: "Michelle hates
politics." The media have faithfully sustained the ruse — when
they discuss likely Democrat contenders in 2024, they typically
leave Michelle off the list.

The Obamas needed this cover story to undo the damage that the
increasingly shrill Michelle was doing to her husband's campaign
in 2008. In February of that year, when she told a crowd in
Madison, Wisconsin, "For the first time in my adult lifetime I'm
really proud of my country," Barack's advisers knew they had to
reel her in. In the days following, the angry Chicago culture
warrior mellowed into the amiable "Mom in Chief."

For those who have monitored the Obamas closely, as I have, the
plot to elect Michelle president has been obvious since at least
2016. Michelle has been following a formula scarily like the
one that got Barack Obama elected president. Like her husband,
Michelle served as the keynote speaker at a Democrat Convention.
Barack's 2004 breakout speech introducing John Kerry made him a
viable candidate four years later. Michelle's 2020 speech on
behalf of Joe Biden established her as the favorite next nominee.

Next, Barack Obama based his candidacy on his personal story, as
captured in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father.
Michelle is basing her candidacy on her wildly popular 2018
memoir, Becoming. Conservatives failed to notice that Michelle
was selling out arenas around the country, ostensibly to promote
the book, but in reality to solidify her political ambitions.
There was scarcely a talk show she did not appear on, and, if
that were not promotion enough, Netflix turned Michelle's life
story into a movie.

Finally, Barack started in politics by running a voter
registration drive called "Project Vote." Michelle now
aggressively runs "When We All Vote," a project designed to
showcase Michelle's leadership and remind voters of her solid
skills at reciting Democrat talking points. The showcasing has
worked. Michelle Obama is a genuine pop culture phenomenon.
Like Oprah or Madonna, she scarcely needs her last name anymore.
She has more than 21 million Twitter followers, 48 million on
Instagram, and 18 million on Facebook.

The one thing that can stop Michelle's drive to the White House
is the truth about Michelle herself. She is not who she
pretends to be, and she knows it. As I show in Michelle Obama
2024, Michelle repeatedly refers to "imposter syndrome" in
describing her own ascent to stardom, though she pulls short of
detailing the ways she has deceived the nation and herself all
these years.

"After weeks of careful preparation," writes Michelle in
Becoming of the 2008 Democrat National Convention, "I walked
onstage at the Pepsi Center in Denver in late August and stood
before an audience of some twenty thousand people and a TV
audience of millions more, ready to articulate to the world who
I really was."

But who was Michelle, really? Did even she know? She claims to
have spoken to America in her "own voice" and with her "own
words," but if she really wanted help finding her own voice, she
might have used her own words. Instead, she relied on a white
twenty-seven-year-old speechwriter, Sarah Hurwitz, a Harvard Law
grad and Judaism scholar.

To soften the ground just prior to Michelle's convention speech,
the Obama campaign displayed before the crowd a sweet short
film, narrated by her mom, Marian Robinson, entitled "South Side
Girl." Throughout the campaign, Michelle had used the "South
Side" metaphor the way William Henry Harrison had used the log
cabin in his 1840 presidential campaign. "She was very
committed to the South Side of Chicago," Harvard prof Charles
Ogletree said in the film. "She was very committed to using
every bit of her skills and talents to lift others up." In
truth, Michelle had been running from the South Side since she
was old enough to attend kindergarten, and that included an
illegal elementary school registration out of district to avoid
lower-class Black kids.

Michelle's convention speech was well crafted. She and Hurwitz
laid out ample doses of Michelle's and Barack's working-class
roots and Joe Biden's as well. To fit the larger Democrat
narrative, Michelle reinvented her career to try to cancel her
"first time proud of my country" faux pas. "In my own small
way," she told the enthralled crowd, "I've tried to give back to
this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job
at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower
young people to volunteer in their communities."

In fact, I discovered, Michelle left her law firm job hoping to
find less stressful legal work at the University of Chicago.
When that cushy opening did not materialize, she took a job at
City Hall helping White developers and their political friends
clear poor Blacks out of valued real estate. Having proven her
callousness toward the Black community, Michelle was promoted
handsomely to perform a similar service for the White elite at
the University of Chicago Med Center, literally steering poor
Blacks away from the modern hospital E.R. and into dumpy
storefront clinics. "Lifting people up" is a much less apt
description of her work function than "selling people out,"
specifically those in Chicago's Black community.

The trickiest part of Michelle's convention speech was to
neutralize her self-inflicted image as "an angry Black woman who
didn't love her country." This took some finessing. To begin,
Michelle identified herself with a sundry assortment of people.
These included the unlikely trio of Martin Luther King, Hillary
Clinton, and Joe Biden, all of whom were allegedly "driven by a
simple belief that the world as it is just won't do — that we
have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."
Michelle's recognition of this fighting spirit was — drum roll,
please — "why I love this country."

The audience failed to recognize that Michelle pulled the "world
as it should be" quote from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
and repeated it five times in her speech. And Alinsky was the
least worrisome of Michelle's radical affiliations. It was she
who pushed her husband into the arms of the Rev. Jeremiah
Wright. And it was Michelle who worked with the Weather
Underground terror group's Bernardine Dohrn at her law firm and
got tight with her and hubby Bill Ayers. Michelle, in fact,
recruited Dohrn as the first sponsor in her Public Allies
program and recruited Ayers to speak at the University of
Chicago. Until Barack's Senate run in 2004, the two couples had
dined together weekly for years. And it was Bernardine Dohrn
who schooled Michelle on "the politics of fear" that she recited
almost verbatim on the 2008 campaign trail.

In 2008, with an able assist from the media, Barack Obama was
able to conceal his radical connections and sell himself to the
nation as a racial healer. Michelle lacks the temperament to
pull off that scam. But do the Democrats have a choice? Events
of the past year and a half have made Michelle the most
practical candidate. Her name recognition and popularity will
put her atop the polls once her name is introduced, and even
Republicans will be terrified of criticizing her.

However, the truth can stop her. As Michelle Obama 2024: Her
Real Life Story and Plan for Power becomes viewed and read
around the country, Michelle will have to answer for selling out
and exploiting the Black community she is now pretending to care
about. That's a sales job not even the media can help Michelle
overcome.

Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert is president of Highway 61
Entertainment. Among his many films are political documentaries
including The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that
Divided America; Trump: The Art of the Insult; There's No Place
Like Utopia; Dreams from My Real Father; Atomic Jihad; and
Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and the Revolt of Islam and the new
film and book MICHELLE OBAMA 2024: Her Real Life Story and Plan
for Power.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/06/michelle_obama_
is_running_for_president_in_2024.html
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2022-07-04 22:46:59 UTC
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June 5, 2022
Updated 1:14 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO — As the former chair of the San Francisco
Democratic Party, Mary Jung has a long list of liberal bona
fides, including her early days in politics volunteering in Ohio
for the presidential campaign of George McGovern and her service
on the board of the local Planned Parenthood branch. “In
Cleveland, I was considered a communist,” she said in her San
Francisco office.

But the squalor and petty crime that she sees as crescendoing on
some city streets — her office has been broken into four times
during the coronavirus pandemic — has tested her liberal
outlook. Last year, on the same day her granddaughter was born,
she watched a video of a mentally ill man punching an older
Chinese woman in broad daylight on Market Street.

Ms. Jung, director of government affairs for the San Francisco
Association of Realtors and head of a Realtors foundation that
assists homeless people, wondered what kind of city her
granddaughter would grow up in. “I thought, ‘Am I going to be
able to take her out in the stroller?’”

Now she finds herself leading what has been called a Democratic
civil war in one of America’s most liberal cities: an effort to
recall San Francisco’s district attorney, Chesa Boudin, that has
echoes of the party’s larger split over how to handle matters of
crime and punishment. In an overwhelmingly Democratic city,
liberals and independents will decide a recall that is receiving
major funding from conservative donors in addition to backing
from moderate Democrats.

“What shade of blue are you — that’s really what it comes down
to,” said Lilly Rapson, the campaign manager of the recall and
Ms. Jung’s partner in the endeavor. A lifelong Democrat, Ms.
Rapson said she was motivated to lead the campaign after her
home was broken into last year as she slept.

There is no compelling evidence that Mr. Boudin’s policies have
made crime significantly worse in San Francisco. Overall crime
in San Francisco has changed little since Mr. Boudin took office
in early 2020.

But his message of leniency for perpetrators has rankled
residents of the city, many of whom feel unsafe and violated by
property crimes. Like a president facing election during a bad
economy, Mr. Boudin finds himself a vessel for residents’
pandemic angst and their frustrations over a wave of burglaries
and other property crimes in well-to-do areas. Some residents,
especially the city’s sizable Asian American population, also
feel that a spike in hate crimes has made it unsafe to walk the
streets.

If successful, the recall would overturn one of the nation’s
boldest efforts in criminal justice reform: an experiment to
install a former public defender as the protector of public
safety with promises to reduce mass incarceration, hold the
police accountable and tackle racial disparities in the justice
system.

A vote to push Mr. Boudin from office would signal to Democrats
that talking tough on crime could be a winning message in the
midterm elections, and deal a blow to a national movement that
has elected progressive prosecutors in cities such as
Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles.

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Mr. Boudin faced long odds in his race to become San Francisco’s
district attorney two years ago.
Mr. Boudin faced long odds in his race to become San Francisco’s
district attorney two years ago.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York
Times

The election comes as San Francisco is being convulsed by
debates over the disorder of its streets — car break-ins, tent
encampments that dot the sidewalks in some neighborhoods and the
open-air markets peddling illicit fentanyl that has killed more
people in the city than Covid-19.

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Mr. Boudin, 41, was an outsider to San Francisco politics who
grew up while his parents, 1960s radicals with the Weather
Underground, went to prison for their role in the notorious 1981
robbery of a Brink’s armored car in New York that left two
police officers and a bank guard dead.

He went on to become a Rhodes Scholar who graduated from Yale
College and Yale Law School before starting his legal career as
a public defender. In 2019, Mr. Boudin sought to move across the
courtroom and was elected as the city’s top prosecutor, assuming
office just before the pandemic.

He promised to end cash bail, stop prosecuting children as
adults and expand diversion programs that offer defendants a
chance at rehabilitation instead of prison — all steps he has
taken while in office. Almost immediately, his opponents began
collecting signatures toward a recall.

“It’s not been an easy time to start a career in public life,”
he said recently at a community forum in the North Beach
neighborhood, which was interrupted by protesters outside
chanting, “Recall Chesa!”

On the campaign trail, Mr. Boudin is facing stiff headwinds.
Several polls showed him down at least 10 points. In fighting to
keep his job, he has leaned on two main strategies: associate,
at every turn, the recall effort with Republicans, and confront
voters with data that shows overall crime has not increased
meaningfully while he has been in office, even as some
categories have risen during the pandemic.

He has referred to one of the biggest donors to the recall
campaign, William Oberndorf, a conservative and wealthy
businessman, as an “oligarch,” called his opponents “Trumpian,”
and sought to place the recall in the national context of a
Republican-led effort to attack liberal prosecutors as weak on
crime.

“It’s really problematic that we are having a very Trumpian
conversation in San Francisco,” Mr. Boudin said.

California Democrats have had success using that strategy of
attaching opponents to former President Donald J. Trump — most
notably in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s triumph over a recall drive. But
some wonder if the approach has staying power the longer Mr.
Trump is out of office.

Mr. Boudin added that the recall campaign had exploited
individual tragedies like the story of a Thai grandfather who
was fatally attacked last year while taking his morning walk. He
also pointed to an increase in media coverage of crime, and
especially high-profile videos on social media of shoplifting
cases — like one showing a man on a bike stealing from a
Walgreens.

“And then people read the story, they see the video, and they
perceive crime as being out of control,” Mr. Boudin said. “When
in fact things like shoplifting are down dramatically. It
doesn’t mean we don’t have a real problem with auto burglaries,
but the notion that it’s out of control today and it wasn’t in
2019 is just demonstrably false.”

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Auto burglaries have been especially common in San Francisco’s
tourist hot spots.
Auto burglaries have been especially common in San Francisco’s
tourist hot spots.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times

But more than anything, it was the case of Troy McAlister, a man
with a long criminal history who mowed down two people with a
stolen car on New Year’s Eve in 2020, that has fueled the recall
effort. Mr. McAlister was free because Mr. Boudin’s office had
previously negotiated a plea deal on an armed robbery charge.
And Mr. Boudin says it is a case that keeps him up at night.

“The nature of this job is we are always looking backwards and
hindsight is 20-20,” Mr. Boudin said. “We know as a matter of
material fact that some people will be released and commit bad
crimes. There’s always going to be cases where if we look back
we would make different decisions.”

Unlike in other parts of the country, homicides are not driving
the anger and passions of recall advocates. The annual number of
people killed in the city has stayed within a range of 41 to 56
over the past seven years.

Instead, recall advocates describe a pervasive feeling that
quality of life in San Francisco has deteriorated. Burglaries,
especially in wealthier neighborhoods, have soared during the
pandemic. The city recorded 7,575 burglaries in 2020 and 7,217
last year, a sharp increase of more than 45 percent from 2019.
Car break-ins, long a festering problem, were less frequent
during the pandemic, but thieves shifted their targets from
tourist areas to more residential neighborhoods, a change that
gave the issue more immediacy and urgency among voters.

Another problem is that Mr. Boudin and the Police Department,
whose rate of arrests for reported crimes is among the lowest of
major cities, have a toxic relationship. In the 2019 campaign,
the San Francisco Police Officers Association attacked Mr.
Boudin by calling him the “#1 choice of criminals and gang
members.” Supporters of Mr. Boudin responded at his victory
party with chants of epithets toward the union.

Officers have been heard on body camera footage telling
residents that the district attorney is unwilling to prosecute
crimes. And while Mr. Boudin has been criticized for not more
aggressively prosecuting drug dealing, he said the police make,
on average, only two drug-dealing arrests a day.

“The perception is right,” Mr. Boudin said. “Low-level drug
dealers can reasonably expect in San Francisco that nothing will
happen to them. Because they’re not getting arrested.
Incidentally, the same thing is true with auto burglaries, where
1 percent of reported auto burglaries result in an arrest. So
the focus on my office or on me or my policies is really
misplaced.”

The chief of police, Bill Scott, declined to answer questions on
the department’s rate of solving crimes. A spokesman said in a
statement that it was “not appropriate for him to get into the
type of political discussion that could influence the will of
the voters of San Francisco.”

“While Chief Scott admits that he and District Attorney Boudin
have their disagreements, he maintains that they have a candid
and very professional relationship,” the spokesman said.

San Francisco has had a long line of liberal prosecutors,
including Vice President Kamala Harris. But if Mr. Boudin loses
the recall, Mayor London Breed is likely to appoint a more
moderate Democrat, political analysts say. The replacement would
serve through the end of the year and then might be eligible for
re-election.

Some of the recall campaign’s most visible supporters have come
from within the district attorney’s office, which has seen a
high rate of turnover — dozens of lawyers have left since Mr.
Boudin took over, after resigning or being fired.

Brooke Jenkins, a former prosecutor, left the office to join the
recall effort in part, she says, because she clashed with Mr.
Boudin about how to prosecute a murder case.

“I don’t believe Chesa is living up to his obligation as the
district attorney,” Ms. Jenkins said. “He of course ran on a
platform of reform, and reform is necessary in the criminal
justice system. But you have to be able to balance that with
your primary obligation of maintaining public safety.”

Among the most frustrated residents in San Francisco are those
who live and work in the Tenderloin, the compact neighborhood
near City Hall that was once the city’s red-light district
filled with bars and boxing gyms. Today, it is a gritty tableau
of the city’s most persistent ills — the illicit drug markets,
the desperation of those who are chronically homeless and the
consequences of untreated mental illness.

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A homeless encampment in the Tenderloin.
A homeless encampment in the Tenderloin.Credit...Jim Wilson/The
New York Times

As the manager of Threads for Therapy, a nonprofit thrift shop
in the Tenderloin run by a Christian charity, Angel Fernandez
watched warily on a recent afternoon as customers perused the
women’s coats. The shop has a full-time security guard because
so many people try to shoplift.

Mr. Fernandez does not hesitate when asked how he will vote on
the recall. He compares Mr. Boudin to Robin Hood, someone who
views criminals as “the downtrodden forced into crime.” But like
the concerns of many recall supporters, some of Mr. Fernandez’s
complaints do not relate directly to the district attorney’s
performance — they are more general feelings of a need for order
and responsiveness from the city, including the police. When Mr.
Fernandez calls the Tenderloin police station one block away to
report fights on the sidewalk, drug sales, threatening behavior
or shoplifting, he is frequently disappointed with the slow
response. “Sometimes they don’t come at all,” he said of the
police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/us/chesa-boudin-recall-san-
francisco.html

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