Just six months into Alameda District Attorney’s tenure, group launches effort to recall her
OAKLAND — Six months after Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was sworn in, becoming the first Black woman and progressive reformer to hold that role, an effort is underway to remove her from office.
defending her chief assistant district attorney, Otis Bruce Jr., following the revelation that an independent investigation had concluded he manipulated and intimidated other prosecutors in Marin County while fostering a misogynist culture and a “quid-pro-quo” system of favoritism there. Bruce was the second-ranked prosecutor in Marin before joining Price’s transition team.
The recall group’s treasurer and assistant treasurer are listed as two political law attorneys with a Los Angeles-based firm. Its principal officer, Brenda Grisham, is an East Bay resident who became prominent in local politics after her son was gunned down in Oakland in 2010. She declined to comment when reached by this newspaper Wednesday, as did another member of the group, Chinatown leader Carl Chan.
The current logistics of gathering those signatures equates to about $8 to $10 a signature — meaning any campaign to even qualify the recall could cost $1 million, Oakland political consultant Jim Ross estimated. In other words, if the recall effort was akin to running a race, this week’s development amounted to simply “tying the shoes to start that process,” said Ross, of the Telegraph consultancy firm.
Price won her election handily in November 2022, beating longtime prosecutor Terry Wiley in an effort to replace outgoing Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley by flipping precincts that previously went to O’Malley and dominating in Oakland and Berkeley.
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