Tuesday, March 05, 2024

THROW THE BUM OUT

By Bob Walsh

 

 Pamela Price Alameda County District Attorney speaks.


 
It looks like the bid to recall the Alameda County CA. District Attorney Pamela Price is going to get on the ballot.  The proponents have turned in about 123,000 signatures.  They need 73,000 valid signatures to get the issue on the ballot.

The SAFE organization ( Save Alameda For Everyone) has said repeatedly that it isn't about politics for them, it is about public safety.  Ms. Price is actually functioning very much like a public defender in her role as the D. A.  She was a civil rights attorney before being elected in 2022 with 53% of the vote.  She pledged, among other things, to reduce "mass incarceration."  Meaning she doesn't want to lock up criminals.  She also works hard to get reduced sentences for convicted persons under 25, who she regards as juvenile offenders.  The only serious target for her wrath is cops.  

Most of the funding against her is from the business community in Alameda County.  She doesn't believe that mass retail theft is an issue.   

I had originally thought this would hit the November ballot but I was wrong.  It will be the subject of a special election assuming the required signatures are valid.  My GUESS is that this will make it harder for Price to win.  Most of her constituency on this issue are convicts who can't or won't vote and who will probably be passed out on voting day anyway.  Most of the people opposed to her are law-abiding taxpayers with actual addresses to get their blanket mail-out ballots.

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