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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin please provide corrections if this is incorrect; via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_District_Attorne... also https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/

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Wow, I thought the original commenter was exaggerating but nope. He was raised by members of the Weather Underground. Before law school he also worked for the Chavez regime in Venezuela.

I don't know anything about him other than what's in those wiki articles, just crazy how much he sounds like a right wing caricature of a leftist politician, to the extent it's hard to believe at first sight. He's living proof of Poe's Law.

His adoptive parents were part of a circle of people who, in the 1970s, suggested that up to 70 million Americans might have to be interned and executed in order to bring about Communism. And to be specific, they felt that this would be an acceptable price to pay.

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