The Greenberg Brief: What To Expect With Progressive Pamela Price Recall

Congratulations are in order. The highest of high fives should be given to the organizers, volunteers and team behind the signature gathering effort triggering a recall of so-called “Progressive” District Attorney Pamela Price.

Word of this phase of success came late afternoon Monday April 15^th, along with an official statement from Alameda County’s Registrar of Voters tasked with receiving, counting, and validating the nearly 123,000 signatures on submitted recall petitions. The threshold has been met, and Pamela Price will indeed face a recall; yet another rogue DA, in this case a Soros-backed DA, will face angry voters.

It’s astounding that the county of Alameda, which is situated just on the other side of a bridge mere minutes to the east of San Francisco, has failed to get the all-important message when we tossed disgraced District Attorney Chesa Boudin out of office. Over here, we certainly learned a lesson from the failure of so-called “Criminal Justice Reform”, especially with reforms tied to an utterly upside-down, decarceration, clear-the-jails, no bail, blame-the-victim mentality. The people of Alameda must’ve pretended it couldn’t happen to them. But it did, and the time to rectify this will come later this year.

So, what happens next?

There are essentially two steps in recalling failed prosecutor Pamela Price: first, meeting the requirement to gather sufficient valid signatures to trigger a recall election. This has just been accomplished and verified yesterday. Second, there’ll be a campaign by recall supporters to educate voters about the recall, encouragement to vote yes. The recall will function as a referendum.

From my experience here in San Francisco in 2022, the fight by the anti-recall crowd to keep Chesa Boudin in office was at times a nasty, tit-for-tat trading of jabs, Boudin loyalists hitting at the credibility of pro-recall endorsers and their donors, amid a hell of a lot of misinformation and gaslighting coming from the Boudin himself. He loves the spotlight.

Chesa Boudin was a notorious liar and felt little obligation to come clean with the public even after he was ousted. We should expect the same attitude from Pamela Price. She was elected under false pretenses; she will fight to keep her job, equally employing cherry-picked positive statistics while clinging to her disastrous ideology. Supporters previously have alleged, and will continue to claim, she’s simply doing what she promised to do when elected in 2022. Those claims of reforming criminal justice are a disingenuous and reality-altered mantra employed by rogue officials. Remember, it’s not the job of a district attorney to create legislation.

Alameda County includes the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, both seeing deadly crime spikes. Violent carjackings, murders, car-to-car shootings, smash-and-grabs, brazen restaurant holdups, and mass lootings at retail stores is blamed on the enablement of such criminal activity when Pamela Price pledged to refrain from adding to the jail population. She removed “enhancements” when a perpetrator is accused and charged with crimes, like removal of gang enhancements, gun enhancements and charging a teen as an adult in the most heinous crimes.

What should we expect for these coming months? Once the actual recall date is announced, the for-and against recall forces will be making earnest efforts to sway the undecided voter. We’ll see advertisements on TV, on billboards, radio, podcasts, on social media – all touting the so-called accomplishments of DA Price, albeit a desperate plea. Price will assert society needs to address the root cause of crime; it’s not the criminal’s fault. Perhaps a Hollywood celebrity or two will appear in support of Price in a desperate effort to portray her as being cool.

There will be testimony from crime victims and their families – tragedies perpetrated under Pamela Price. We’ll see business owners who’ve been forced to shutter, families torn apart by the murder of a loved one, tourists robbed, and Dennys and In-n-Out Burger forced to close and leave town.

These will be the worst of campaign times. Yet another Soros-backed district attorney has failed at their task (to “reform” criminal justice) and failed to serve the greater Alameda County population with safety-minded policies. The Price ideologues are the pinnacle of promoting an egotistical, maniacal state-sponsored pro-criminal free-for-all.

DA Price’s rowdy thugs will surely confront recall supporters, especially those handing out literature, stickers and recall signage; expect to see stories of tense shouting matches. Neighborhood Leftists will opine online and on news websites hoping to add to the opposition to recall. Political clubs and organizations will take a stance, sending mailers to voters, perhaps with inflammatory imagery tying recalls to Trump, to the J6 Insurrection or the Abortion issue, grossly misrepresentative and manipulative. I’ve seen it all.

Price herself will surely pull out all the stops, pretending she’s championing the mandate to undo a systemically racist justice system. She’ll insinuate she’s being denied the ability to work towards her agenda by rich, powerful forces. She just “needs more time”. She’ll assert it’s the MAGA Republicans wanting a do-over at the polls, them wanting to install a mass-incarceration prosecutor. She’ll play the victim. Her support staff will scour campaign financial statements of recall-supporting donors to attack those donors. She’ll go on TV and radio shows to tout her accomplishments in efforts to sway opinion and crucial votes back to her side.

San Francisco saw this before. Chesa Boudin made the same claims, and he’s passing his handbook over to Pamela Price, in feeble attempts to save her career. Alameda County voters were fooled once in electing the her, the rogue DA, they will see through her insincerity this time, and won’t get fooled again.