You have probably seen the recent headlines indicating that the second attempt to recall LA County District Attorney George Gascón failed, coming up short on the required number of valid signatures. Whatever you may think of that result, it might be noted that Gascón won election in 2020 against incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey. At the time, we posted some relevant information to that campaign (reproduced below):
"Lacey's predecessor as DA brought a criminal case against a UC faculty member for a tragic lab accident that should have been dealt with as a civil case. It was hoped that when Lacey was first elected she would take a different approach to that matter... rather than pursue the criminal case, which at one point sought to charge the entire Board of Regents. Instead, she went ahead with the case as it stood. UCLA defended the faculty member and eventually the case largely dissipated and was settled. But in the course of the DA's efforts, another faculty member was charged in a totally-unrelated case on spurious grounds that were eventually dropped. It appeared that the DA's strategy at the time was somehow to hold the second faculty member as a kind of hostage to push for some kind of deal on the lab case. If that was the strategy, it failed."
Source: https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-da-election-contest-part-2.html.
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You can put "Lacey" into the search engine on this blog for more information. And, if you are a local political junkie, yours truly collected some pro and con recall campaign videos. See the link:
https://archive.org/details/recall-gascon-from-pro-recall-website.
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