A group supporting the George Soros-backed campaign to remove left-wing Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Monday that it has submitted 123,000 signatures to the Board of Elections. san francisco chronicle report.
The Alameda County Registrar’s Office has a 10-day deadline to verify signatures. The groups only need about 73,000 verified signatures for the special election, which could be held as early as April or May. KABC TV report.
Carl Chan, leader of the recall and president of Oakland’s Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, said the effort is “not about politics, it’s about public safety.”
“They said it wouldn’t work, they didn’t have the money,” Chan said. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And guess what? We’ve all done it.”
“I’ve never said it before, but I’ll say it today: We’re going to win,” said Brenda Grisham, another leader of the recall effort.
“We shouldn’t be doing this, but for the safety of our community, for the safety of our children, for the safety of our businesses, this was something we had to do. This is the right of Alameda County residents. ” Grisham added.
Save Alameda for Everyone, one of the groups supporting the recall effort, formed the committee in July, just seven months into Price’s term.
Price ran for office on a promise to overhaul the county’s justice system and reduce mass incarceration. She also vowed to abolish the death penalty, reduce gun violence and prevent children from being prosecuted as adults.
Several veteran prosecutors resigned under Mr. Price’s leadership. A former Oakland prosecutor claimed the prosecutor’s office’s lenient policy failed him to meet his “legal and ethical obligations.”
Even the Oakland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People spoke out against Price last summer, saying her “progressive policies and failed leadership” had created a “doom loop” of crime. denounced. The Oakland NAACP called for a state of emergency to be declared in response to the crime crisis in the area.
William Fitzgerald, a spokesman for Mr. Price’s “Protect the Win” campaign, said Mr. Price would win the recall election.
“You’ll see in every courthouse, agents from her office lock people up and hold them accountable for what happened,” Fitzgerald said. “The reality is that crime did not begin when Prosecutor Price took office and will continue to exist long after her time here.”
“She was elected over a year ago with 53% of the vote despite significantly outspending the establishment,” he continued. “The truth is that her establishment lost. They pissed her off and spent more than $2 million on a campaign to oust her.”
Fitzgerald said the recall attempt against Price was financially supported by “wealthy real estate and venture capitalists” who aimed to “undermine democracy.”
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Protect the Win representatives last week sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta about signatures that allegedly misled residents into signing a price recall petition. It called for an investigation into “reports of widespread fraud” by collectors.
The recall movement denied the allegations. It is unclear whether a national investigation will be launched.
Price has previously claimed that his position as a prosecutor “hasn’t really had any impact on crime” and called his critics “election deniers.”
Many businesses in the Oakland area have recently decided to close their stores due to crime. Denny’s announced last month that it would close its only Oakland store after 54 years in business. In-N-Out, Black Bear Diner, Subway and Starbucks also announced closures.
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