Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Crime: Hollywood Power Players Behind Effort To Recall District Attorney

These DA's were put in place specifically to create chaos. More on that later this year.

From Los Angeles Magazine:

Gascón Recall is Being Funded by Hollywood Power Players

Once dismissed as a Trumpist sideshow, the campaign to recall the controversial DA is being bankrolled by a surprising list of progressive donors

The first attempt to recall Los Angeles district attorney George Gascón—a grassroots effort led by right- of-center law-enforcement boosters and MAGA activists—went down to resounding defeat last year, without fanfare.

But according to early returns from the fundraising effort obtained exclusively by Los Angeles, a new recall attempt against the controversial D.A.has been rapidly gaining steam—with help from some deep-pocketed Democratic donors and Hollywood grandees.

While reliably right-wing mega donors like Beverly Hills real-estate baron Geoffrey Palmer and Palos Verdes Estates investor Gerald Marcil accounted for the bulk of the $1.8 million raised for the recall over the final three months of 2021, big-name Democrats have entered the fray in the early days of 2022 — too soon to appear in the campaign’s financial disclosure which the County published this week.

Elected in the wake of the George Floyd murder and months of nationwide civil-rights marches, Gascón promised to reform a criminal justice system that he blasted as racist and out of step. On his first day in office he issued a controversial set of edicts that prohibit his prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, even in the most heinous murder cases, and from charging individuals younger than 18 as adults no matter what crimes they committed. He also banned cash bail, which he and many critics of the practice believe is unfairly onerous for lower-income suspects.

The list of early contributors to the campaign to oust Gascón, obtained exclusively by Los Angeles and not yet released to the public, includes Orion Pictures co-founder Mike Medavoy and his wife, socialite Irene Medavoy; supermarket magnate and President Clinton confidant Ron Burkle; President Biden’s pick for ambassador to Norway, Holmby Hills media-real-estate billionaire Marc Nathanson; Hillary Clinton bundler and Pacific Palisades real-estate baron Jordan Kaplan; and Malibu-based developer of malls and condos Richard Weintraub and his wife Liane....

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