Recall George Gascon Update: Court Hearing December 6th, 2022

 

Arthur, On Tuesday, December 6, we will be in Los Angeles Superior Court for a preliminary injunction hearing against the Los Angeles County Registrar. Judge James Chalfant will determine if the Registrar is unreasonably restricting our lawful review of the 195,783 rejected signatures to recall District Attorney George Gascon. If the court rules in our favor, we will be able to more speedily determine just how many of the rejected signatures were wrongly disqualified. Even with the constraints the Registrar has placed on our review — including no more than three days per week to examine the rejected signatures — in the first month alone we found that at least 39% of the signatures we reviewed were wrongly rejected.

While we continue to fight for our beloved Los Angeles, every day that Gascon remains in office, criminals are empowered, and Angelenos are endangered. Last week, a homeless man grabbed a 9-inch butcher knife off the shelf, and attacked Target customers. He approached a 9-year-old boy and told him he was going to “stab and kill him.” When the boy tried to run away from him, he stabbed the child in the back. The man then stabbed a 25-year-old woman in the chest, before a security guard fatally shot him. Why must these types of horrific stories become a regular item in the news? We’ll never accept it, and neither should any Angeleno. That’s why we will keep fighting until every valid signature is counted.

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Recall Gascon Update: We're Going to Court!

  

Arthur, We’ll see the LA County Registrar in court. On Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant granted our request for an expedited hearing on issuing a preliminary injunction against the Registrar. An injunction would compel the Registrar to fully cooperate with our team that’s reviewing every one of the 195,783 signatures the Registrar deemed invalid. Already, and with the Registrar placing absurd restrictions on our review process, we’ve identified clear, obvious, and legitimate challenges for about 39% of the invalidated signatures that we’ve reviewed so far. Our fight against George Gascon is not over, far from it.

While our fight moves to the courtroom, Angelenos are fighting for their safety every day. This week, Marissa Young came forward with her chilling story. On July 31, she was brutally beaten and raped at night in a Torrance park, by Darrell Dean Waters, a homeless man who was arrested the prior night for possession of a dagger, but released after just a few hours. “If he had been kept in jail, what happened to me wouldn’t have happened,” said Young. “I could have been murdered.” Last week, a homeless man in North Hollywood stabbed 24-year-old Kyli Watts in the back of her head with a pair of gardening shears. Watts had moved to LA only two weeks earlier. She immediately went into surgery and faces a difficult recovery. And did you see the deeply disturbing video of a 27-year-old criminal abducting a 14-year-old girl? He proceeded to force her into a bathroom and rape her. These stories are a regular occurrence under George Gascon. That’s why we’re fighting so hard to get rid of him, and why we won’t rest until every valid signature is counted.

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Recall Gascon Campaign Update: Still Checking the Signatures

 Let's see what happens with the updated checking of signatures for the Recall DA George Gascon campaign:

Arthur, When he entered office, George Gascon employed a new approach to juvenile crime — combat it as little as possible, using the “lightest touch”. That was one of the first directives given to his prosecutors, who, by the way, overwhelmingly want their boss to be fired. How’s Gascon’s “lightest touch” policy working out? He’s empowering a new class of career-criminals. “You can walk around with a loaded firearm concealed illegally, and we can’t prosecute it. That is a misdemeanor,” said an attorney in Gascon’s office who is familiar with juvenile cases. “We used to be able to file a felony if there was a prior [conviction]. Now we can’t file anything.” Lt. Craig Walker of the LA County Sheriff’s Department said, “They get through the revolving door and don’t see it slammed shut and locked behind them. So they will keep doing [crime] like everyone else. Across the state, 9,162 juveniles were arrested for felonies last year, a 79% decrease from a decade ago. And “homicides reached a 15-year high in Los Angeles in 2022.” As former prosecutor Kathleen Cady points out, “Gascón doesn’t believe in increased penalties for anyone.” That includes juveniles and adults. And it includes violent offenses and drug offenses. “With Gascón as Los Angeles County’s District Attorney, drug dealers in Los Angeles County need not worry about being charged with enhancements for having a lot of drugs or guns,” Cady writes. As long as George Gascon remains in office, it’s open-season for LA’s criminal class. __ As you know, we’ve been carefully reviewing every one of the 195,783 signatures the Registrar deemed invalid last month. What we’ve discovered so far is unsettling. Please read the following statement from attorney Marian Thompson, whose legal team is assisting our efforts: “In a few short days, through the careful examination of rejected signatures by a group of volunteer attorneys, we have seen many signatures that were rejected under various categories, that were clearly wrongfully rejected by Dean Logan’s examiners. We will continue our inspection of each rejected signature in the following weeks for the purposes of determining whether the recall examination process itself was flawed, in whole or in part, and to identify wrongfully rejected signatures in preparation for any potential legal challenges.” We will provide you with another update as soon as we have one. In the meantime, stay safe, and continue to pressure George Gascon to prioritize the safety of Angelenos over the comfort of criminals.

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I am glad to hear that the right is not over.

However, if it comes to pass that the nearly two hundred thousand signatures are all invalidated, then people need to start asking more serious questions. Why were so bad signatures allowed to slip through in the first place? Why did the signature gatherers allow people from outside of the county to sign onto the paperwork?

Recall Gascon Campaign: It's Not Over

 Yes, I know that there is a great degree of outrage and upset across Los Angeles County at this time.

NEW: The campaign to recall LA DA @GeorgeGascon issues a statement in response to failure to qualify the recall on the ballot. They will review the nearly 200k rejected signatures.

“The removal of George Gascon from office has never been a matter of if, but when.” @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/rs7kLIAHj2

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) August 15, 2022

Agreed.

It's not over.

We the voters may have to wait until 2024, though. That is an unfortunate proposition, but if that's what it takes for the remaining Gascon supporters to wake up and realize how terrible he is, then so be it. 

Update on Recall DA George Gascon Campaign

 

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Arthur, Based on all available evidence, the LA County Registrar is not following applicable California signature verification laws in counting the 715,833 signatures we submitted to recall George Gascon. You read that right. In 2020, California implemented uniform guidelines for signature verification to ensure every vote is counted. These guidelines were made permanent by state law in 2022, and apply to this recall process. According to the Registrar’s own words, they are using a process that is outdated, incorrect, and does not comply with current law. Under current law, signature verification analysis begins with a basic presumption that the signature is in fact the voter’s signature. If the initial reviewer believes a signature is not a match, the signature can only be rejected if two separate elections officials find beyond a reasonable doubt that the signature differs in multiple, significant, and obvious respects from all signatures in the voter’s registration record. The Registrar’s office is not following these guidelines. Instead, the Registrar’s materials call for a reviewer to reject a signature if there are “repeated small differences”, even if there are a “great number of general similarities”. This is a violation of current law. On Monday, we alerted the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors of our concerns. You can read the letter here. Our election processes, including recall petitions, should be done transparently and in accordance with the law. Anything less is an infringement on our democratic voting process. We remain confident that with a fair, transparent, and accurate signature verification process, our recall will qualify.

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Recall Gascon Update

 

Arthur, While we wait for the Registrar to verify the 715,833 signatures we submitted, George Gascon’s Los Angeles continues to slide into disorder. On Tuesday, Andrew Cachu, a convicted murderer who George Gascon released from prison decades early, was arrested on gun and DUI charges after leading police on a chase. In 2015, Cachu, 17 at the time, executed 41-year-old Louis Amela outside a restaurant in Palmdale while robbing him. Cachu was charged as an adult, convicted, and sentenced to 50 years to life. Last year, Cachu asked for a new sentence. Gascon and his handpicked deputy Alisa Blair could have requested to keep Cachu in prison. They declined to do so, ultimately resulting in his release. What happened Tuesday was preventable and predictable. Releasing a murderer after only 5 years is dangerous, reckless, and disqualifying. It’s a miracle no bystanders or police were harmed. Last week, it was revealed that Gascon’s office is dissolving the “Lifer Unit” — prosecutors and victim advocates who notify victims of crime and their families when their assailant is up for a parole hearing. George Gascon puts violent criminals on the streets and keeps victims in the dark. He has got to go. And if the Registrar qualifies our recall, he will, in a landslide.

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