(Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images) A potential recall of crusading Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón ... current (and second) recall effort targeting the embattled ...

County elections officials today begin the long process of validating some 717,000 signatures submitted by organizers of the effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.

George Gascón had a rough Tuesday night ... as "a longtime Republican claiming to be an independent in a clear effort to conceal a right-wing agenda." Hochman describes his policy platform ...