Tag: Gascon recall

Gascón Recall Failure Means Crime Must Get Worse in LA Before It Gets Better

Commentary Despite Los Angeles’ worsening crime problem, the effort to oust District Attorney George Gascón, the architect of the soft-on-crime polices that are causing it, has failed. Incredibly, organizers collected over 700,000 signatures, yet came up 46,000 short of the number necessary to put the recall on the November ballot. Skeptics are questioning the disqualification of…


Gascón Recall Proceeds, Requires Full Validation of Signatures

A count of a random sampling of signatures for the recall of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón pushed the endeavor into a new phase July 14 as the county clerk will now need to verify the rest of the submitted signatures. The LA County Clerk reviewed about 36,000 signatures at random, which is 5…