Patty Quillin – California Globe

Hochman Dwarfs Gascon in Campaign Funds

October 4, 2024 2:55 amOctober 4, 2024 6:21 am

For most of us, having $48,462.73 in our checking account would not be a bad thing at all. But for Los Angeles District Attorney George Gacon, it’s a nightmare. According to the latest campaign finance filings – they cover donations...

Soros PAC Has Spent Zero on Gascon

July 7, 2024 2:30 amJuly 7, 2024 2:31 am

That fluidy sound you hear in Los Angeles politics is not a tap being turned off – it’s a toilet being flushed. The George Soros-funded California Justice and Public Safety political action committee has spent exactly zero dollars so far...

Consequences for Gascon?

June 21, 2024 4:19 pmJune 21, 2024 4:19 pm

Wealthy people tend to be immune to crime – that is, the day-to-day violent kind of crime. While claims involving novel interpretations of the IRS code, a dodgy lawyer, a business manager that may be more interested in taking care...

About Last Week …and Some About This Week

March 4, 2024 6:49 amMarch 4, 2024 6:49 am

Politics, politics, politics, politics. Well, let’s let Mel Brooks say it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaTMz4QpBKc On Tuesday, voters will go to the polls in California to pick some folks who get to be on the November ballot to maybe get picked again....

Enough Benjamins for George?

February 23, 2024 5:39 pm

In his successful quest to defeat Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey in 2020, current DA George Gascon got about $3.7 million dollars from the Smart Justice California Action fund. True – that money was largely aimed at the general...

Government Unions, Tech Billionaires and California Ballot Propositions

December 16, 2020 2:12 amDecember 16, 2020 8:35 am

Californians voted on twelve state ballot propositions on November 3. On nine of these propositions, California’s government and private sector unions spent significant amounts of money, over a million in five cases, and over ten million in two cases. But of these...