California: Signature gathering starts in Alameda County District Attorney Recall -- Need 73,195 signatures

Petition language has been approved in the recall effort against Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price over complaints that she is too lenient on plea deals. Here's some earlier coverage about the complaint and Price's claim that the proponents were "election deniers." Also, here's some context of the battle against the progressive prosecutor movement.

Since I was just asked by our friends at the Daily Kos, it appears that the signature number cited earlier (93,000) is incorrect. That was based on California law, which requires the signatures of 10% of registered voters in the county. However, Alameda is a charter county and the law allows it's rules to supersede. Alameda requires 15% of the vote total for governor in the county in the last election (487,969). So petitioners need 73,195 signatures in 160 days.