The Alameda County Prosecutors Association has “overwhelmingly” voted in support of recalling Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, according to an email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Price denied the union's move. Discuss At a press conference, she said the union was opposed to her because some union leaders “have a problem” with not being able to discriminate on the basis of race or sexual orientation under her leadership. But the union says Price is not running the office well and wants him to resign. according to in an email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle.

“Our support for recall reflects the unfair and hostile working conditions we face daily as we seek in good faith to implement the policy directives authored by Pamela Price,” the union's email announcing the vote said. “In other words, our support for recall is based on labor issues, not policy.” (RELATED: Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price faces recall vote after crime spree in Blue County)

Patty Lee, who worked as a public information officer in Price's office, claimed in a recent lawsuit that she “experienced overt anti-Asian sentiment” while working for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.

“I have never been subjected to such degrading and bullying behavior in the workplace,” Lee said in a statement. “It is unacceptable in any professional environment, but when the perpetrator is a public servant who claims to be a civil rights activist, it is unacceptable in good conscience.”

Lee also alleges that Price chose to “conceal, delete or alter” public records to avoid responding to public requests for information.

Price received $700,000 from the George Soros-funded California Justice and Public Safety PAC for his unsuccessful 2018 campaign. California Justice and Public Safety PAC did not fund Price's 2022 campaign.

The union's support for the recall comes shortly after Price accused prosecutors in the county of intentionally excluding black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases between the mid-1980s and 2007, CNN reported. report.

“The world is watching and horrified by what we have uncovered as prosecutorial misconduct in this office,” Price said, according to CNN. “Our efforts to hold prosecutors accountable for this type of misconduct and other ethical failings have been met with resistance from the prosecutors' union since before we even took office.”

“The prosecutors' union has always supported the recall,” Price said at a press conference, noting that the union had donated $125,000 to his opponent's 2022 campaign.

Price also argued that the union “represents a very small percentage” of the firm's employees. It's unclear how many people in her firm are union members, but an email obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle said 85% of the firm's membership had voted.

Local activists seeking Price's ouster announced in April that they had collected 74,757 verified signatures in support of holding a recall election, exceeding the threshold needed to appear on the ballot.

Price ran on promises to reduce the number of people incarcerated, shorten sentences for offenders under the age of 25 and toughen investigations into allegations of police misconduct. according to According to the San Francisco Chronicle, violent crime in the county's largest city, Oakland, increased by 21 percent just 10 months into Price's term. according to Monitor your data.

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office and the Alameda County Prosecutors Association did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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