Boudin entered the race as an underdog and captured voters’ attention with his extraordinary life story: He was 14 months old when his parents, who were members of the far-left Weather Underground, dropped him off with a babysitter and took part in an armored car robbery in upstate New York that left two police officers and a security guard dead.
His mother, Kathy Boudin, served 22 years behind bars. His father, David Gilbert, may spend the rest of his life in prison.
“Growing up, I had to go through a metal detector and steel gates just to give my parents a hug,” Boudin said in his campaign video.
He said that as one of the dozens of people whose lives were shattered by the deadly robbery in 1981, he experienced first-hand the destructive effects of mass incarceration and it motivated him to reform the nation’s broken criminal justice system.
He was raised in Chicago by Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn before studying law at Yale University. He later won a Rhodes Scholarship and worked as a translator for Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez before coming to San Francisco.
You’ll notice how his concern is over the fact that he had to visit his parents in jail instead of the three people his parents killed and the family they left behind. He was not a victim of mass incarceration. He was a victim of just incarceration.
San Fransico just went from horrible to horrendous.
Unfortunately,for neighboring states, many Californians are moving out of California and to these states and bringing California values with them. In many ways, they are worse than illegals.
Boudin seems to have very little victimhood in his past. Comes from sterling lefty heritage (not the poverty kind) and was “raised” in the Chicago Way. Elite schooling. Elite work experience. Probably on the top half of Uncle BHO’s Christmas card list. This guy’s a real prospect.
Bill Ayer’s daddy was chairman of Commonwealth Edison (ComEd), the electric utility for Chicago and N. Illinois. There’s no lack of money in that family.
Feel sorry for the kid. Mal-formed by horrendous parents and even worse caretakers.
I don’t feel sorry for him. He could have changed as adult but his legacy will be more violence and homelessness in San Fran.