Intimidation factor

DA Price recall leader keeps fighting back; Lee’s poll numbers drop again; Mobile home rents in unincorporateds; Campaign data, and more

Surveillance video of Alameda County DA Pamela Price at the business of the recall’s leader last Wednesday.

COUNTY NEWS

PRICE RECALL

—CANDID CAMERA—Brenda Grisham, the leader of the DA Pamela Price recall sent out a call for outstanding petitions the day before Price and an entourage visited her place of business last Wednesday.

—Grisham said on X that the two events are related and amount to an intent by Price to intimidate her and the recall campaign.

—“We are very close to our goals and every signed petition counts,” Grisham wrote in an email to recall signature gatherers on Jan. 9. The next day, Price paid a visit.

—Grisham posted numerous angles of Price and others walking near her business. Price appears to have visited Grisham’s neighborhood after attending the memorial service for slain Oakland police officer Tuan Le.

—On Sunday, Grisham posted surveillance video of an individual spray-painting the phrase “Smile Bitch!” twice on a wall across the street from Grisham’s business.

—Grisham noted the graffitti was created with purple spray paint, which suggests she believes Price was behind the incident. Purple is Price’s favorite color and has been featured on her campaign materials for years.

ELECTION COMMISSION

—DO-OVER—Alameda County’s Election Commission held its inaugural meeting last month and elected a president and vice-president amid confusion and day one disorganization.

—The Election Commission holds its second meeting on Thursday afternoon without the two aforementioned leaders after both resigned from the commission last month.

—It remains to be seen just how much utility the Election Commission will have for overseeing the March Primary, which is only seven weeks away.

CASTRO VALLEY

—DOUBLEWIDE ISSUES—The ongoing controversy over exorbitant rent increases at a mobile home park in unincorporated Alameda County comes to the Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council on Tuesday evening.

—A proposed temporary moratorium on mobile home rent increases greater than four percent appeared on the Dec. 19 Board of Supervisors agenda, but was continued to next week, Jan. 23.

—A separate agenda item seeking to redefine “mobile home” in the county’s existing ordinance was also continued to next Tuesday.

A potential moratorium on large mobile home rent increases

—The owner of Castro Valley’s Avalon Mobile Home Park circumvented the ordinance, county staff said last month, by employing a new interpretation of the law that allowed them to increase rents on land the mobile homes sit by more than $500 a month.

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