{"id":1616749,"date":"2022-08-19T15:17:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616749"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:10:20","slug":"report-gascon-recall-campaign-failed-due-to-negligence-knowingly-submitted-bad-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-gascon-recall-campaign-failed-due-to-negligence-knowingly-submitted-bad-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Gasc\u00f3n Recall Campaign Failed Due to Negligence, Knowingly Submitted Bad Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-gascon-recall-campaign-failed-due-to-negligence-knowingly-submitted-bad-signatures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616749&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">An exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2022\/08\/18\/exclusive-recall-gascon-committee-failed-to-pre-validate-signatures-hired-incompetent-vendors-n614367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by RedState found that the campaign to recall Los Angeles District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/george-gascon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Gasc\u00f3n<\/a> was unsuccessful due to the campaign\u2019s negligence and willingness to turn in invalid petition signatures, mislead donors, and actively request workers to break the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On August 15, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA<\/a> County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk (RRCC) Dean Logan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/george-gascon-recall-effort-fails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that the recall campaign had not successfully turned in the necessary amount of signatures. Of the more than 715,000 signatures given to Logan, over 195,000 were found to be invalid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBased on the examination and verification, which conducted in compliance with the statutory and regulatory requirements of the\u00a0California Government Code, Elections Code, and Code of Regulations,\u00a0520,050 signatures were found to be valid and 195,783 were found to be invalid,\u201d Logan\u2019s office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/los-angeles-county-da-george-gascon-recall-petition-found-insufficient-qualify-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The recall effort needed to submit 566,857 valid petition signatures in order to qualify for the ballot in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">RedState had discussions with sources and whistleblowers and examined materials surrounding the recall effort\u2019s failure. The outlet claimed that the effort was unsuccessful because the campaign\u2019s funds were under the thumb of political consultants who worked with vendors in a dishonest way and were more committed to making money than turning in accurate signatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Cassandra Vandenberg was widely known as the person in charge of the committee, but an anonymous whistleblower told RedState that Vandenberg was aware signatures were being included from people who were located outside of the county or non-voters and told campaign staff to keep them on the petitions \u201cbecause we need the numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">RedState reportedly spoke to witnesses and examined documents that showed a large number of circulators \u2014 the people who collect the signatures \u2014 didn\u2019t finish the attestation section correctly. The person who collected the signatures is required to attest to every page of signatures. These mistakes were not noticed by hired validation firms, the firm that collected signatures, or the campaign committee until the petitions were almost ready to be submitted on July 6, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vandenberg allegedly told campaign employees \u2014 in the presence of several deputy district attorneys \u2014 to forge signatures of the circulators in the attestation section, which are signed under threat of perjury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The campaign also hired Let the Voters Decide (LTVD), a signature-gathering firm, with whom they have ongoing litigation, RedState reported. LTVD claims they didn\u2019t carry out any verification because they were aware that the validation firms were doing that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Multiple LA County residents also complained of the strange and pushy behavior of the signature gatherers, with one Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsRedbarn\/status\/1559918759472611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1559919491554762752%7Ctwgr%5Eff5383f2768fc12d8e8160f57f9d8bf0b7d6b9e5%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https:\/\/redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2022\/08\/18\/exclusive-recall-gascon-committee-failed-to-pre-validate-signatures-hired-incompetent-vendors-n614367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commenting<\/a> that they asked her to sign even though she had already done so.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There were signature gatherers in Long Beach\/ Lakewood area that were from Texas, I asked them why they\u2019d move to California from Texas, woman told me they came to work. I asked doing signature gathering.. yes. No harm I guess but they were clueless to how bad Gascon is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ms. Redbarn (@MsRedbarn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsRedbarn\/status\/1559918759472611328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">LTVD also submitted tens of thousands of signatures on the last day. Sources reportedly told RedState that there were ongoing negotiations over payment between the group and Vandenberg, with Vandenberg telling the office a few days before the deadline that she needed to bring in over $700,000 that weekend. Some people theorized this was because she needed to pay LTVD so they would turn over their signatures, but she didn\u2019t explain the reason, according to the outlet. People within the campaign said Vandenberg doubled that threshold, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The outlet also reported that documents revealed that the campaign committee overly exaggerated the amount of signatures gathered at specific times during the campaign in order to get more financial donations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The campaign complained about procedural items concerning the count, which RedState says are not entirely fair. Logan\u2019s office, however, had not given the committee information about how they can examine the rejected signatures and verification procedure as of August 17, per RedState\u2019s sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The outlet argued that the true victims of the campaign\u2019s lack of professionalism are the people who have suffered under DA Gasc\u00f3n\u2019s leadership and progressive policies that have arguably made \u2014 and continue to make \u2014 Los Angeles a much more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dangerous<\/a> place to live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exclusive report by RedState found that the campaign to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n was unsuccessful due to the campaign\u2019s negligence and willingness to turn in invalid petition signatures, mislead donors, and actively request workers to break the law.\u00a0 On August 15, LA County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk (RRCC) Dean Logan announced that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}