California: San Mateo County Sheriff Ballot Measure moves to a vote, with recall threat still looming and the history of sheriff recalls in California

Ballots have been mailed out for the March 4th vote on Measure A, which will allow the San Mateo County supervisors the power to remove County Sheriff Christina Corpus for cause. The issue is over claims of a work romance and a use of slurs.

There are recall threats as well, though petitioners need over 45,000 signatures to get to the ballot. 

We've previously seen the deep look at the effort, especially on the fact that with only 58 sheriffs' in the state, it's not a surprise that there are few recalls on the ballot.

While there have been a number of recalls against sheriffs in other places in the country (I see 4 since 2011 that made the ballot, with 3 removals), none have been in California. KQED's Brian Krans said that the most recent one he found (and maybe the only one) was in 1976 against Plumas County Sheriff W.C. Abernethy, who retired for six days before being sworn in for his sixth term in order to collect his pension. He was kicked out (though it was a close 2% margin).