Ms Olumi said she believed Mr Buden had never fully accepted the role of prosecutor.
“He seems to value the perpetrators more than the victims,” she said.
David Lee, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University, said the two revocation elections in San Francisco – members of the Education Council in February and Mr Buden on Tuesday – were a strong call from the grim electorate.
“There is anger at the failure of the government, the failure of the mayor’s office to deal with pressing issues,” Mr Lee said. In the abyss of changing security guards in San Francisco – two iconic San Francisco residents, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, and Senator Diane Feinstein, are in the twilight of their careers – voters are sending a message of disappointment and thirst for change, he said. -N Lee. This is especially true for Asian American voters, he said.
“In San Francisco, a third of the population is Asian and they don’t feel like someone is listening to them – the mayor’s office or the democratic institution,” he said.
At the same time, many political analysts warn against reading too much in the result, because it reflects the dynamics of the recall of the election: when Mr Buden was elected in 2019, he received only 36 percent of the vote in the first round. In the third round, according to the city’s ranking system, he eventually overtook his main rival for the post, Susie Loftus, by several thousand votes.
“You are fighting against yourself in a recall election,” said Willie Brown, a former San Francisco mayor. Mr Brown said he had voted to keep Mr Buden in office in protest of the withdrawal process. But he was also critical of Mr Buden, whom he described as a “warrior for the oppressed”.
“He’s him,” Mr Brown said. “He’s certainly not a prosecutor.”
Holly Secon contributed to the report.
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