The Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association voted “overwhelmingly” to support the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, according to an email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Price dismissed the move from the union, arguing at a press conference that the its opposition to her came because some union leaders “have a problem” with not being able to discriminate on the basis of race or sexuality under her leadership. The union, however, says it wants Price out because she’s done a poor job running the office, according to the email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Our support for the recall reflects the unfair and hostile work conditions that we face everyday, as we try in good faith to implement the policy directives that Pamela Price has created,” the union email announcing the voting results reads. “Put different, our support for the recall is based on labor issues, not policy.”
Patti Lee, who previously worked as a public information officer for Price’s office, alleged in a recent lawsuit that she “experienced a clear anti-Asian sentiment” during her time in the Alameda County district attorney’s office.
“I have never been subjected to such humiliating and bullying behavior in a workplace,” a statement from Lee reads. “It is unacceptable in any professional environment, but when the perpetrator is a public official who claims to be a civil rights advocate, it is unconscionable.”
Lee also alleges that Price chose “to hide, delete and change” public records to avoid complying with information requests from the public.
Price received $700,000 from the George Soros-funded California Justice and Public Safety PAC for her unsuccessful 2018 campaign. California Justice and Public Safety PAC did not fund Price’s 2022 campaign.
The union’s support for the recall comes on the heels of Price’s allegation that prosecutors in her county had, between the mid-1980s and 2007, deliberately excluded black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases, CNN reported.
“The whole world is watching and horrified by what we have uncovered as prosecutorial misconduct in this office, and our efforts to hold prosecutors accountable for this kind of misconduct and other ethical lapses has been met with resistance from the prosecutors union before we arrived,” Price said, according to CNN.
Price said that “the prosecutor’s union has always supported the recall” at her press conference, noting that the union contributed $125,000 to her opponent’s campaign in 2022.
Price also claimed that the union “represents a very small percentage” of the office’s employees. It is unclear how many members of her office are part of the union; however, the email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle says that 85% of the union’s membership cast votes.
Local organizers seeking to oust Price announced in April that they had gathered 74,757 verified signatures in support of their effort to hold a recall election, exceeding the threshold necessary to get a vote on the ballot.
Price ran on a platform of decreasing the number of incarcerated people, reducing sentences for criminals under the age of 25 and scrutinizing the police over alleged misconduct, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Violent crime spiked in Oakland, the county’s largest city, by 21% during just the first ten months of Price’s term, according to police data.
The Alameda County District Attorney’s office and the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.
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