Last year, there was an attempt to recall LA Country District Attorney George Gascon, whose election was one of many backed by billionaire George Soros. It fizzled out in the fall.
The new recall effort against George Gascon is heading into the home stretch, and it appears the second recall effort will be more successful than the first.
The Recall George Gascon campaign said it has collected 500,000 signatures as of Monday, leaving them with 67,000 more needed from registered voters by the July 6 deadline to put the recall question on a ballot.To collect the remaining number of signatures needed, the group has mailed out 3.6 million petitions to Los Angeles County voters. It said 5% of those who receive and sign the forms would give the campaign more than enough to clear the threshold.”In other words, the recall is figuratively and literally in the hands of LA County voters,” the group said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
The latest recall movement recently gained considerable momentum when, under Gascon’s criminal-friendly policies, a California teen who rammed a car into a mother and infant child was on probation at the time of the incident.
The 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to driving a car into a woman walking her child in a stroller in Venice, California has a criminal background and was on probation at the time of the incident, Fox News has learned.The teenager was previously convicted of felony poisoning after spiking a teenage girl’s drink in 2019 at Palmdale High School, which sent her to the hospital.The 17-year-old was charged with two felony charges of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and one felony count of hit-and-run and pleaded guilty, but was sentenced to five to seven months in a juvenile probation camp. Prosecutors describe the camp as “less than a military school and a little bit tougher than a summer camp.”
The situation is so dire for Gascon that he claimed that the county sheriff’s department “agreed with the felony charges” and lenient sentencing against the teenager. He has had to walk that claim back.
After Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva called out Gascon and said “We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency,” Gascon’s office corrected the statement on Saturday, stating that the sheriff’s office was not involved.“Need to correct our statement from yesterday. LASD was not involved in the decision on the felony charge, as they were not the investigating agency in that case,” a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said.Villanueva had earlier said that his office was not consulted regarding the charges.“We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency,” the Los Angeles official wrote on Facebook and Twitter early Saturday. “Sheriff’s investigators would never be OK with the lightweight sentencing in this hit-and-run case. Stop empowering and encouraging criminal behavior. Hold them accountable #VictimsMatter.”
This particular sentencing was the final straw for many Los Angelenos.
Interestingly, a California appeals court recently upheld an injunction that said Gascon couldn’t refuse to charge three-strike cases, a California law that can significantly increase prison sentences.
The court affirmed an earlier ruling that said the directive not to charge strikes against defendants violates state law and the rights of prosecutors in Los Angeles County.”On the merits, we conclude the voters and the Legislature created a duty, enforceable in mandamus, that requires prosecutors to plead prior serious or violent felony convictions to ensure the alternative sentencing scheme created by the three strikes law applies to repeat offenders,” the ruling said. “The district attorney overstates his authority. He is an elected official who must comply with the law, not a sovereign with absolute, unreviewable discretion.”
Hopefully, Gascon’s reign of lawlessness and terror will end soon.
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