With the days already numbered until the November 5 elections, the candidates in the closed elections in the city and county of Los Angeles are giving everything.
While Ysabel Jurado’s campaign had some expensive billboards placed around the 14th district of the Los Angeles Council, which read “Kevin de León Must Go”, the councilman’s campaign gave him a unexpected blow when they managed to obtain statements from the Filipino-American lawyer sending the devil to the police. In English, he said “F-the Police.”
Such a statement caused even the head of the Los Angeles Police Department, Dominic Choi, to publicly regret the statements of the aspiring Los Angeles councilwoman; while the powerful police union was also outraged; and there was no shortage of voices that asked Jurado to resign from the candidacy.
Then the candidate tried to shake off the blow, revealing that the person who asked her the question was a worker from Councilor De León’s office or campaign; and therefore, they had purposely put him to ask the question, and practically set a trap for him.
Whatever the case, it is clear that no one pressured the candidate who emerged from the ranks of the Democratic Socialists of America to give that response in which she cursed the police.
He also boasted that in one month he collected twice as many electoral donations as his opponent. This news is not enough to raise alarm bells, since we already saw that assemblyman Miguel Santiago, who raised the most money in the primaries, came in third place; and then, the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, who even with the entire stratospheric sum of more than a trillion dollars that has been donated to her, is tied in the polls with Trump.
The campaign for district 14 in the last week before the election on Tuesday, November 5 is hot. But the cards have already been cast, and people have already started to vote.
In the other closest race in Los Angeles, we have prosecutor George Gascón facing his opponent, former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman who seeks to unseat him, and has a whopping 30 point lead.
Gascón is betting on overcoming the polls, and recalled the case of Hillary Clinton, who had an advantage over Donald Trump in 2016, and ended up losing.
The truth is that the progressive fiscal is not willing to let himself be crushed so easily. Last week he dealt a good blow to Nathan by announcing his decision to resentencing the Menéndez brothers, sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of freedom for the murder of their parents.
What shocked the former federal prosecutor was that Gascón announced his decision days before the November 5 elections.
Hotchman is right. Gascón could have acted in the case of the Menéndez brothers since last year, and not a few days before the election. So it is obvious that the announcement was made by prosecutor Gascón with the desire to gain votes in his favor for his re-election, since many Angelenos are against the brothers’ long sentence, especially now that a documentary showed the sexual abuse that They suffered from their father’s side since they were children.
However, Gascón’s challenger must not forget that in a campaign, and even more so in one in which the prosecutor is risking his skin, sorry, his political future, he is going to use everything he can to get the voters to vote for him. his re-election, even more so when the game is about to end, and the score is against him. No way, that’s how campaigns are.