OAKLAND — Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price went on the offensive Wednesday, vowing to prevail against a well-heeled recall attempt that will be decided on a packed November general election ballot.
Striking a defiant tone, Price offered an emphatic defense of her first 16 months in office while pillorying “a handful of super-rich investors and tech executives” who had spent heavily to see her ousted barely a year into her first term.
Her remarks came a day after the county’s Board of Supervisors placed the recall question on the Nov. 5 ballots. The move sets off a six-month campaign to determine whether Price becomes the first known elected official in Alameda County’s history to be recalled from office.
Backed by more than a dozen supporters holding signs proclaiming “Protect the Win,” Price on Wednesday framed the recall campaign as a bid to “overturn” the results of the 2022 election, during which she became the first Black woman to serve as Alameda County’s top prosecutor.
“The people in this county have the right to elect a district attorney. They did that — we shouldn’t have to do it anymore,” said Price while speaking at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Jack London Square. “But we will — we will do it again.”
In doing so, she called out nearly a dozen people by name who funneled tens of thousands of dollars into the recall campaign — in one case, more than a half-million dollars — working to boot her from office. She suggested their money would be far better served going to a litany of other uses, including improving funding for Highland Hospital, housing for teachers, shelter for homeless people and anti-violence nonprofits.
“Invest your money in building up our community and not tearing down our democracy,” Price said.
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