As I recall, I was Patty Perlow's first supervisor when she was hired by the office and I believe that she and I  are on friendly terms.  However, I believe there were and are problems in the office that will likely not be corrected until someone from outside the office becomes the next DA.  Perlow can serve as long as she wants and will always be re-elected by the voters because she is the incumbent.  She can anticipate remaining there until she is ready to retire.

Filing an affidavit of prejudice against a judge is something most lawyers just won't do unless you want to permanently burn your bridges, not only with that one judge, but you attract attention from the other 14 as well.  It gets talked about behind the scenes, believe me.

Filing an affidavit of prejudice is a really big deal because it calls into question the judge's professionalism, competence and fairness.  I've appeared in front of judges I didn't like that much but never filed an affidavit of prejudice in 31 years.