Bill Ayers' 'Adoptive' Son Running For San Francisco District Attorney

Chesa Boudin, a self-described Socialist and believer in restorative justice, is campaigning to become San Francisco District Attorney. Boudin believes his unique upbringing as the biological son of domestic terrorists sentenced to prison for a robbery which left four people dead, and as the 'adoptive' son of radical anti-American activist and Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, makes him a perfect candidate to reform the American justice system. "My parents were members of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground. They went underground after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970 and stayed underground for many years," Boudin told Jacobin Magazine. -- More...