LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Organizers who launched a recall campaign against Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate and City Councilman Kevin de León last summer have refiled another notice of intent to recall, according to LA City Clerk records on Feb. 28.
The same lead-organizer, Pauline Adkins, told The Epoch Times that over the last eight months, “the frustrations have not changed; they’ve increased.”
Adkins said the previous recall attempt failed not because of a lack of community support in District 14, but rather due to one of the proponents withdrawing from the effort. A recall effort must have five proponents to be valid.
The notice of intent to recall lists the district’s sprawling homeless issue as “crimes against humanity.” Adkins said there’s been a homeless encampment outside of her home for the last year and that there has been an increase in drug dealing in her Eagle Rock neighborhood.
“And I’ve got 10 kids less than 30 feet away, I’m tired of it and he cannot be mayor,” she said.
De León’s office did not respond to a request for comment by press deadline, but last year he told reporters during a press conference that the recall was started by “Trump supporters.”
“From day one, I promised my constituents that I would partner with them to tackle our district’s challenges with urgency, compassion, and common sense—and that is exactly what we are doing. Nothing will derail our focus on saving lives as we fulfill our commitment to lift unhoused Angelenos off the streets and into housing as quickly as possible,” de Leòn said last year.
But Adkins claims the dissatisfaction with de León is a bipartisan issue and that most of her community members lean liberal. Currently, de León is the only mayoral candidate that could face another recall attempt.
De León was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2020 with slightly more than 52 percent of the vote. Recallers will have 120 days to collect roughly 20,500 signatures once the notice to recall is published, to trigger a recall election.
