San Francisco School-Board Fallout Will Spread Far Beyond City

The recall election drew modest turnout (26 percent of San Francisco voters), but the results were too emphatic to be second-guessed; the pro-recall vote amounted to 79 percent against Collins (who attracted particularly intense criticism for suing her colleagues after her removal from the position of board vice-president, costing the city significant legal fees), 75 percent against López, and 72 percent against Moliga. Mayor London Breed, who supported the recall, will appoint successors within ten days.

While the recall and the events that led up to it will be conflated by conservative media nationally with a parents rights backlash against woke political leadership and pandemic-driven school closures, the circumstances were largely local. Like Breed and State Senator Scott Wiener (who represents the city in Sacramento), much of the city s Democratic establishment backed the removal of the school-board members, though there was some shadowy outside money fueling the recall drive that may have been more ideologically driven. A big question now is whether the successful school-board action will spill over into a June recall election aimed at progressive San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin, who is drawing fire for allegedly paying insufficient attention to an ongoing surge in property crimes in the city.

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