The San Francisco Department of Elections has approved a recall effort of District Attorney Chesa Boudin to begin the signature-gathering process.
Matthew Selby, campaign services division manager for the elections department, confirmed to the Bay Area Reporter March 9 that the petition was approved for circulation March 4.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Richie Greenberg, a business adviser and activist who in 2018 was a Republican candidate for mayor, began the recall effort after a petition urging Boudin to resign received almost 15,000 signatures.
That petition was started amid a public outcry after a parolee was allegedly responsible for a hit-and-run that killed two pedestrians in the South of Market neighborhood on New