Oakland DA Pamela Price is recalled

The recall campaign against Alameda County District Attorney Attorney Pamela Price has been ongoing since she ran for and won election to district attorney in 2022. Price became Oakland’s first Black district attorney after winning the election. Price ran an openly reformist campaign that became increasingly unpopular with right-wing and Republican politicians.

According to reports, Price plans to fight against a campaign that recently submitted 123,000 signatures to election officials in hopes of forcing one other recall vote in California. One development that should be watched closely by Oakland voters is Measure B, a ballot query asking voters whether Alameda County, where Oakland is situated, should accept California’s product recall system.

The measure says it could make it easier to start out the recall process, but others like Marcus Crawley, president of the Alameda County Taxpayers Association, Jacqueline Carron-Cota, chairwoman of the Alameda County Election Integrity Task Force, and Edward Escobar, founding father of Citizens Unite and one in all the leaders of the hassle to in favor of Price’s recall, says wholesale changes that might restrict voters’ rights are usually not mandatory.

“If supervisors are so concerned about flaws in the current Alameda County recall law, they should instead propose ‘surgical fixes’ to repair small parts requiring modification.”

As reported, money behind the try to take down Price comes mostly from financiers and property owners in Oakland, and as of February 2, they’ve spent $2.2 million of their efforts. Price, as she did in her initial campaign to win the seat, raised about $85,000, mostly from small donors.

As reported, a few of the criticism comes from families of gun violence victims and Oakland residents who say Price hasn’t done enough to make town protected to live and work.

At a December town hall meeting, Florence McCrary, the mother of Terrance McCrary, a 22-year-old man who was killed by a stray bullet at an Oakland art gallery, was critical of Price.

“We would expect more empathy and care from mothers who, at the age of 22, had to bury their children as innocent victims,” McCrary told the group at City Hall. “I am a taxpaying citizen who works hard and why should I have to live with the knowledge that this person will not be held accountable for his choices.”

Price, at the identical town hall meeting, characterised the appeals motion taken against her as an try to protect the worth of her real estate portfolios.

“We know this recall is not about public safety, we have their campaign plan, this campaign plan says they are concerned about the value of their portfolios, developers, no one is here, no one comes through our real estate portfolio office.”

As reported in 2023, one of these pattern involving character assassination, right-wing attacks, after which withdrawal is familiar. Cat Brooks, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project, which supported Price during her run, told the outlet: “They threatened to cancel her when she ran for the position,” Brooks said. “Unfortunately, in the Bay Area and elsewhere in the country, this is a new political tactic.”

Anne Irwin, founder and director of the pro-reform group Smart Justice, said such a laser-like give attention to how an elected prosecutor runs his or her office doesn’t normally occur unless, like Price, the district attorney is an outspoken reformer.

“The ongoing prosecutor recall effort in Alameda County fully reflects the statewide Republican Party playbook,” Irwin continued. “What is remarkable is that there has been almost no coverage of how an elected prosecutor conducts his or her office until progressive prosecutors are elected,” Irwin explained. “Then suddenly intense scrutiny begins, much of it ordered by pro-recall people, to indicate that the progressive prosecutor is a foul manager. But can any of us look back at history and indicate whether other tough criminal prosecutors within the Eighties and Nineties were good managers?