Campaign News

by Jody David Armour At a heated district attorney debate in Los Angeles last week, DA Jackie Lacey faced questions about why her office incarcerated black Los Angeles residents at 13 times the rate of white residents between 2013 and 2015. Lacey responded by brushing off the racial disparity as a simple fact of life, saying that by the time cases come […]

LOS ANGELES –Today, the second-largest-circulating daily newspaper in Los Angeles, the LA Daily News, endorsed George Gascón for Los Angeles District Attorney. In rejecting the incumbent the LA Daily News said, “It is notable that Lacey has opposed reforms backed by majorities of Los Angeles County voters, including Prop. 47, but also Proposition 57, and measures legalizing marijuana […]

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD: Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey faces her first set of challengers as an incumbent this March. After first entering office in 2012, Lacey went unopposed in 2016. This time, she faces two challengers with similar critiques of Lacey’s performance as DA of the largest local prosecutor’s office in the country. […]

A San Francisco cyclist who fatally struck a 71-year-old man in a Castro district crosswalk almost eight years ago has started a social media attack campaign against George Gascón, the man who prosecuted him for felony manslaughter and is now running for the district attorney in Los Angeles. Chris Bucchere set up the Facebook page […]

Few local races have attracted as much national attention as the Los Angeles District Attorney race. The New York Times has described it as the most important D.A. election in the country. Incumbent D.A. Jackie Lacey is seeking a third term in a hotly contested battle in which her main opposition is former San Francisco […]