A group of residents has started the process to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Approval of the signature-gathering phase of the effort is likely to come in the next week, according to the recall's lead organizer.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Richie Greenberg, a business adviser and activist who in 2018 was a Republican candidate for mayor, started a petition January 2 urging Boudin to resign after a parolee was allegedly responsible for a hit-and-run that killed two pedestrians in the South of Market neighborhood on New Year's Eve.
Greenberg's petition garnered almost 15,000 signatures. "We decided to stop the petition and declare that this is a much bigger response than we could have imagined,"