Soros Funds Campaign of L.A. Prosecutor Candidate who Vows Lock Up Fewer Criminals

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Soros Funds Campaign of L.A. Prosecutor Candidate
Who Vows Lock Up Fewer Criminals



OCTOBER 02, 2020
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JUDICIAL WATCH


Leftwing billionaire George Soros just donated $1.5 million to
help the nation’s most populous county elect a Black Lives Matter-endorsed
prosecutor who promises to lock up fewer criminals. The sizable
contribution to former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon’s
campaign for Los Angeles District Attorney is part of a broader effort
by Soros to place leftists in local prosecutors’ offices around the country.
The philanthropist has donated generously to these types of candidates
throughout California as well as in other states, including Florida, Virginia,
Illinois, Texas and New Mexico. Earlier this year, a Soros-linked group called
Missouri Justice Public Safety PAC gave St. Louis prosecutor Kimberly Gardner,
who criminally charged a couple for defending their home against violent
Black Lives Matter protestors, $78,000. Soros also helped fund Gardner’s 2016
campaign and his reelection support has not wavered even though she was
investigated for abusing her power to pursue a bogus criminal case against
a political nemesis and fined for campaign finance violations.

Now Soros, who has long funded international and domestic movements to
advance the left’s radical agenda, is pouring money into the L.A. County
race to remove its first black district attorney, Jackie Lacey, who is seeking
a third term. Judicial Watch has launched an investigation and this week
filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request for Gascon’s records,
communications, and expenditures with various Political Action Committees
behind his controversial move from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
According to a conservative news report, social justice advocacy groups,
including Black Lives Matter, recruited Gascon to come to L.A. and he met
with the co-founder and key strategist of the Black Lives Matter global
network, Patrisse Cullors, about the move south. The same media outlet
reported the recent $1.5 million Soros donation to Gascon this week.

Besides promising to imprison fewer criminals than L.A. County’s current
prosecutor, here is why leftists want him in charge; Gascon helped craft
two state measures, Proposition 47 and Proposition 57, that benefit hardcore
criminals under the auspice of “criminal justice reform.” Proposition 47
decriminalizes drug and theft offenses by reducing them from felonies to
misdemeanors. Proposition 57 grants serious criminals such as rapists,
human traffickers, child molesters and drive-by-shooters early release
from prison. Gascon’s campaign is a perfect example of outside special
interests controlling traditionally non-partisan races, according to the
Association of Deputy District Attorneys (ADDA), the professional group
of deputy prosecutors in L.A. County. “Special interest groups, funded
by George Soros, pumped millions of dollars into district attorney races
across the county,” the group’s president writes on its website.
“Their mission was to use Soros’s wealth to radically reshape the
criminal justice system.”

Judicial Watch has reported extensively on the multi-million-dollar
global crusade funded by Soros to further advance the left’s radical
agenda. Incredibly, American taxpayers contribute to this outrageous
cause. A few years ago Judicial Watch published an investigative report
on the financial and staffing nexus between Soros’ deeply politicized
Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the U.S. government. OSF works
to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders, target
conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of
higher education and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain.
With the help of American taxpayer dollars, Soros bolsters a radical
leftwing agenda that in the U.S. has included: promoting an open border
with Mexico and fighting immigration enforcement efforts; fomenting
racial disharmony by funding anti-capitalist racialist organizations;
financing the Black Lives Matter movement and other organizations
involved in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri; weakening the integrity of
our electoral systems; promoting taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand;
advocating a government-run health care system; opposing U.S.
counterterrorism efforts; promoting dubious transnational climate
change agreements that threaten American sovereignty and working
to advance gun control and erode Second Amendment protections.