The recall campaign against Alameda County District Attorney Attorney Pamela Price has been ongoing since she ran for and won the district attorney election in 2022. Price, upon winning the election, became Oakland’s first Black District Attorney. Price ran an openly reformist campaign, which has become increasingly unpopular with right-wing and Republican figures in politics.
As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Price plans to fight back against the campaign, which recently submitted 123,000 signatures to election officials in hopes of forcing another recall vote in California. One development that should be watched closely by Oakland voters is Measure B, a ballot question asking voters if Alameda County, within which Oakland resides, should adopt the State of California’s recall system.
The measure, according to Oaklandside, has the potential to make it easier to get the recall process started, but others such as Marcus Crawley, president of the Alameda County Taxpayers Association, Jacqueline Carron-Cota, chair of the Election Integrity Team of Alameda County, and Edward Escobar, founder of Citizens Unite and one of the leaders in the effort to recall Price, say that wholesale changes that could curtail voters rights are not necessary.