LOS ANGELES — Yesterday evening, the Endorsement Committee of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party recommended George Gascón for Los Angeles District Attorney, signaling it’s time for change in the nation’s largest prosecutorial office.
“I am grateful to the endorsement committee for their support, for their trust, and partnership,” said former District Attorney and Assistant Chief of the LAPD, George Gascón. “I’m fired up, and excited to bring a progressive vision of community safety to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.”
The endorsement comes on the heels of a blistering report that highlighted Lacey’s work with a firm with ties to Donald Trump and money laundering. According to public records, the firm, the Pluvious Group, has represented no other democrat in history at the federal, state, or county level, raising questions as to why the firm was selected, and why the firm would choose to work with the incumbent DA.
The full Los Angeles County Democratic Party is scheduled to make its endorsement this upcoming Tuesday night.
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George Gascón grew up in Los Angeles after his family immigrated from Cuba. An army veteran, Gascón served as a Los Angeles Police Department Officer for 30 years, rising to the rank of Assistant Chief of Operations. In 2006 he became Chief of Police in Mesa, Arizona, where he stood up to the hateful and anti-immigrant policies of then Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In 2009, then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Gascón Chief of Police. Newsom turned to Gascón again in 2011 when he tapped him to be District Attorney to fill the seat vacated by an outoing Kamala Harris who had been elected Attorney General. During his tenure Gascón implemented reforms that are being duplicated across the country while overseeing violent crime and homicides drop to rates not seen in 50 years. After being elected to two terms, Gascón returned to Los Angeles to care for his elderly mother and to be closer to his two daughters and grandchildren in Long Beach. Gascón is married to Fabiola Kramsky, a three-time Emmy Award winning journalist and recipient of the “Premio Nacional de Periodismo,” the highest recognition given to journalists in Mexico.