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| Courtesy of NoMoreBS, who titled his submission A Preview of November from LA - Where Demokrat's Rule, No Voter ID Required and Yet One-Third of the Signatures Were Invalid!, Citizen Free Press reports: |
Another attempt to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has failed to qualify, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement Monday.
Logan said 520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid. To qualify the recall for the ballot, the petition required 566,857 valid signatures, he said. A previous effort to recall Gascón also failed to gather enough valid signatures to make it onto the ballot last year.
| The CFP article links to the San Francisco Chronicle, which adds: |
Anne Irwin, executive director of Smart Justice California, a criminal justice reform group, said that “Angelenos saw through these disingenuous tactics for a second time.”
“Fueled by Republican mega-donors, police unions and others ideologically opposed to reform, the campaign followed a familiar pattern of using misinformation, fear-mongering and the politicization of tragedies to scapegoat District Attorney George Gascón,” Irwin said.
There were other differences between the unsuccessful attempts efforts to recall Gascón and the successful effortto boot Boudin from office. One is that Gascón is a more experienced prosecutor with a longer track record, while Boudin had served for much of his career in the public defender’s office.
“He has more of a track record,” said Jim Ross, a San Francisco political consultant who advised Boudin during his recall. “It’s harder to go after him. He’s progressive, but he was also a former police officer.”
Plus, it is more challenging to get enough signatures in sprawling Los Angeles County, which is more than 10 times as populous as San Francisco.
Also, while San Francisco Mayor London Breed did not take a position on the Boudin recall, she was open about her frustrations with the district attorney’s office. Meanwhile, Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, who is the poll leader for November’s race for Los Angeles mayor, has opposed the recall. Gascón appeared at Bass’ campaign kickoff event.
Gascón said he learned something from Boudin’s recall: To focus less on crime and prosecutorial data and more on the emotions that people feel about crime in the community.
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