Pamela Price on push poll: It wasn’t me

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Alameda County District Attorney candidate Pamela Price.

ELECTION 2022

ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY

—PRICE: IT WASN’T ME—Earlier this week, I reported about a push poll being conducted in Alameda County. The questions strongly suggested one of the candidates in the Alameda County District Attorney race may be planning a particularly vicious attack. The push poll asked those surveyed about their opinion of a 2017 incident involving the son of Alameda County DA candidate Terry Wiley and police.

—There’s only three other candidates in the race and two known Independent Expenditure Committees, so there’s not much plausible deniability to go around. But Pamela Price, one of the candidates for DA, unequivocally denied any involvement on Tuesday.

—“I want to make it clear that our campaign is not involved in this poll. We are well aware that Mr. Wiley’s adult son had a shootout with police at candidate Wiley’s home in Solano County,” Price wrote. She later personalized the brewing controversy.

—“We are also quite certain that if a shootout with the police had occurred at my home in Oakland with an unsecured assault weapon in the possession of someone on felony probation, it would have been publicized and used against my campaign long ago,” Price added.

—”In fact when our campaign filed, I signed a statement saying candidate families we off limits—follow the money and you will see whose campaign paid for this poll.” It’s unclear if any of the other DA candidates signed such a pledge. A type of non-disparagement pact is common among candidates in contested Alameda County Superior Court races.