Recall organizers said they now have 160 days to collect 73,195 valid signatures from registered voters in the county.
The group seeking to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced Thursday that it had received approval from the county’s Registrar of Voters to begin collecting signatures — signifying a key step in their bid to kick the county’s top prosecutor out of office.
“Everything is about public safety in people’s minds,” Chan said. “We need to rebuild not only the system, but the confidence of the people. We want to send a strong message — people committing crimes, there have to be consequences.”, who took office barely 10 months ago while pledging to remake the East Bay’s criminal justice system by taking aim at its legacy of mass incarceration, while holding police officers to account when they err while using deadly force.
“Signature gathering is just an equation of time and money,” said Oakland political consultant Jim Ross, noting that such efforts are known to cost anywhere from $6 to $10 a signature. “It’s not anything else — it’s just how many people can you put on the street gathering signatures.” her handling of multiple murder prosecutions — including the killing of a Fremont toddler shot dead on Interstate 880Price, a longtime civil rights attorney, has pilloried lengthy prison sentences as a vestige of the country’s racist overreaction to crime, one that has devastated communities of color and led to unnecessary mass incarceration of criminals. A vocal critic of law enforcement, she also has taken steps to re-open misconduct cases against police and sheriff’s deputies.
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