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Newsom endorses progressive challenger Gascón in LA prosecutor race (Lacey caught up in Schiff/Ed Buck scandal)
Politico ^ | 8/25/20 | Jeremy B. White

Posted on 08/30/2020 4:40:50 PM PDT by Libloather

OAKLAND - Gov. Gavin Newsom has endorsed George Gascón to be Los Angeles’ next district attorney in a major boost to the progressive challenger.

Gascón, a former San Francisco district attorney, is mounting a challenge from the left to incumbent Los Angeles DA Jackie Lacey. The race has national implications for an ascendant movement of progressive prosecutors like Gascón, and Newsom laid down an important marker on where he stands in that debate.

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While Newsom's long-standing relationship with Gascón does help explain his support, it also follows several prominent California Democrats endorsing Gascón or disavowing Lacey after George Floyd’s death galvanized activists for law enforcement change. Lacey is the clear choice of law enforcement groups like police unions, which have spent heavily on her behalf.

Harris has already endorsed Gascón, as has Rep. Maxine Waters. Multiple California Democrats who previously backed Lacey have either backed away or endorsed Gascón outright, among them Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Rep. Adam Schiff. Gascón has also drawn the support of progressive luminaries like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; ericgarcetti; gascn; gavinnewsom; georgegascon; jackielacey; lacey; losangeles; maxinewaters; newsom; sanfrancisco; schiff
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On July 4 of 2017, 23 days before Moore died, an escort reported Buck to authorities for drugging Black men, but nothing was done. After Moore died, Buck’s apartment was searched. Law enforcement allegedly “found the following items in Buck’s two-bedroom apartment: 24 syringes with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag with a ‘piece of crystal-like substance.’”

Moore’s mother filed a suit earlier this year against Buck, Lacey, and one of Lacey’s subordinates in federal court for wrongful death and a civil rights violation pertaining to the failure to prosecute. On September 11 the judge in that case denied Motions to Dismiss filed by Buck and the County of Los Angeles – the same day Doe nearly lost his life in Buck’s apartment. It’s rare for a plaintiff to prevail on such a motion against a prosecutor, so Lacey must have been stunned. Could that ruling have been the impetus for Lacey’s decision to file charges in this case and to speak so forcefully about Buck’s evil and disgusting “fetish”?

https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2019/09/19/ed-buck-nearly-kills-third-man-la-district-attorney-finally-files-criminal-charges/

1 posted on 08/30/2020 4:40:50 PM PDT by Libloather
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https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2019/09/19/ed-buck-nearly-kills-third-man-la-district-attorney-finally-files-criminal-charges/


2 posted on 08/30/2020 4:41:07 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

“Progressive” means what for a DA?

Hard core anarcho-tyranny?


3 posted on 08/30/2020 4:49:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

SoCal doesn’t want any more SFO morons, thanks all the same


4 posted on 08/30/2020 4:49:52 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Libloather

George Gascon is the author of Prop. 47, which essentially changed shoplifting of up to $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor, which means you can do it every day and get just a citation. Which means the vagrants now have an easier way to support their vagrant lifestyles by stealing and selling their booty.


5 posted on 08/30/2020 5:08:01 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Libloather

i’m in L A. no to Gascon - Lacey is bad but he is heading Seattle-ways. n. o.


6 posted on 08/30/2020 5:14:56 PM PDT by avital2
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To: Libloather

OBVIOUSLY, Newsom is a mysogynist.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA


7 posted on 08/31/2020 7:08:06 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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