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A campaign to recall Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon is receiving donations from high-profile figures across the political spectrum as fears of violent crime mount in the SoCal city.
Major funding for the effort comes from Palos Verdes Estates investor Gerald Marcil and Beverly Hills real estate developer Geoff Palmer – both Republican megadonors – but other generous donors fall among Hollywood’s left-leaning elite.
“He keeps saying that this campaign is a Trump-funded campaign, and that is far from the truth,” recall co-founder Desiree Andrade, whose 20-year-old son died in a brutal attack in 2018, said of Gascon in an interview with Fox News Digital. “That bothers me because I’m not fighting about politics here. I’m fighting for public safety justice. And to me, public safety does not see color and does not see politics.”
Desiree Andrade (L), whose 20-year-old son Julian Andrade was killed in 2018, speaks at a press conference with supporters of an effort to recall Los Angeles District Attorney Gascon on December 6, 2021. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Andrade, a registered Democrat herself, added that Gascon’s narrative about the recall effort “has stopped” recently because he has “seen” that the campaign is being funded, in part, by Democrats concerned about public safety.
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“I can’t stand that everybody just kind of falls back on that whole Trump thing. It bothers me…when politics become involved because that’s not what it’s about, and I don’t want people to focus on that. I want people to focus on what’s really happening, which is safety and how we’re all being affected,” she said.
Her son, Julian Andrade, was brutally tortured and beaten to death four years ago. The suspects who threw him into a canyon to die while he was still holding on to a shred of life, according to…
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