After the news Tuesday, the disastrous George Gascón experiment in Los Angeles is almost certainly coming to an end on November 5.
A shocking poll showing a 30-point lead for challenger Nathan Hochman came out Tuesday morning, and a debate between the candidates Tuesday evening showed an incumbent playing defense.
Rampant burglaries, repeat offending murderers, reconsidering a lighter sentence for the Menendez brothers – none of the topics discussed were good for an elected District Attorney who has presided over a tumultuous period at the largest local prosecutor agency in the country.
Gascón’s main defense on the campaign trail is to parrot garbage-in, garbage-out crime numbers that come from the politicized criminal justice realm. He also attempts to paint Hochman as a Republican claiming to be an Independent. In today’s debate though, Gascón had to acknowledge that Los…
