You know a political campaign is in trouble when it announces a major shakeup midway through election season. That’s what Price’s “Protect the Win” team just did, hiring not just one, not just two, but three new “team members”: a campaign manager, a new spokesperson, and a new volunteer coordinator. This is evidence that Price knows the recall campaign is likely to win.
It’s also evidence that the unions are pouring money into her legal defense fund. Of course they are: they bought and paid for her, and now they have to protect their investment.
What exactly are the unions getting from Price? It’s hard to say, since the deals between them go down in secret, behind closed doors. It can’t be just about jobs and benefits, since any viable candidate in Oakland would make the same promises.
Anyhow, not a day goes by that Price, or her P.R. advisors, don’t put something on social media about how much Price cares about [insert your favorite cause here]: trans people, Seventh Day Adventists, grieving moms, Asian-Americans, the LGBTQ community, home insurance rates, veterans, foster care youth, Jews, opioids, mental health, the Neptune Society, the formerly incarcerated, sex-trafficking, drunk driving, the death penalty—is there something she missed? Price is throwing spaghetti by the ton at walls, trying to see if something sticks, hoping to pick up a vote or two. She’s a one-woman FBI, to hear her version of it, out there hunting down bad guys, sending them to jail, and always with the best interests of “victims.”
Don’t believe it. She’s just trolling for support, desperate to turn public opinion around. She’s like Trump pretending to be a friend of the LGBTQ community, even as his judges and political hacks are destroying it. It came as quite a shock to Madame D.A. when, early in her tenure, she discovered she was really pissing off hundreds of thousands of people with her criminal-coddling reverse racism. At first, she couldn’t believe the Recall would qualify for the ballot. Then, when it became apparent it would, she went from Kubler-Ross Stage 5, denial, to Stage 4, anger, although she had to hide her anger from the public lest she be perceived as an angry Black woman. She’s now in Stage 3, bargaining. “Look,” she’s telling voters, “I’m not as bad as you think. See how many groups I support! Your causes are my causes!” I doubt that this will work. The public isn’t easily fooled, especially in a case this charged. By mid-summer, I predict Price will sink into Stage 2, depression, as the polls show her losing. Then, when we actually recall her, will she move on to Stage 1, acceptance? Probably not. She’ll join up with Chesa Boudin, Angela Davis, Elaine Brown, maybe even Ibram X. Kendi and, of course, her good friend, Cat Brooks, and form a traveling circus that will entertain virtue-signaling students and woke professors on college campuses and feed them baloney about how racism infects America.
Steve Heimoff