LOS ANGELES—With a little over a month left until the Los Angeles County registrar’s deadline, the Recall George Gascón campaign has surpassed 500,000 petition signatures and raised $6.5 million in donations as of May 31.
To trigger a recall election, the campaign needs signatures from 10 percent of registered county voters—or 566,857 signatures—by July 6 to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot.
Organizers also mailed out 3.6 million petitions with pre-paid return envelopes, hoping for at least a 5 percent return rate that would provide enough signatures to pass the threshold.
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón called the recall effort against him an imitative “driven by very conservative, very right-wing forces” during an interview with the “How We Win” podcast on June 1….