The effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón failed to gather enough valid petition signatures, the county registrar’s office announced Aug. 15.
The county Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office counted 520,050 valid signatures, falling short of the required 566,857.
Recall spokesman Tim Lineberger called the results “surprising and disappointing,” in a statement sent to The Epoch Times.
For the over half a million residents that placed valid signatures, Lineberger said, “To deprive them of the opportunity to restore public safety in their own communities is heartbreaking. And to interpret this in any other way other than a wholesale rejection of Gascon’s dangerous polices would be disingenuous, or naive at best.”…