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   From: gavin.newsom.black.penis.sucking.democrat@disney.com   
      
   If you’d have asked me before if I was ever going to run for any   
   type of public office, my answer would have been no. I’ve spent   
   the majority of my career supporting those in elected office and   
   getting others elected.   
      
   But then a few things happened.   
      
   In 2017, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore was found dead of a meth   
   overdose in the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck.   
      
   Buck, was 63 and white, a longtime political donor, one-time   
   West Hollywood City Council candidate and a well-known figure in   
   LGBTQ political circles. Moore was Black and gay, had been   
   homeless and had worked as an escort.   
      
   Moore’s death was immediately classified as an accidental   
   methamphetamine overdose by the coroner, but after his personal   
   journal was published and other young men stepped forward   
   recounting similar stories about Ed Buck, a man who they say has   
   a Tuskegee Experiment-like fetish which includes shooting drugs   
   into young Black men that he picks up off the street or via   
   dating hookup websites, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s   
   opened a homicide investigation.   
      
   In his journal, Moore wrote, "I honestly don’t know what to do.   
   I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that," a   
   December 2016 entry reads. "Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave   
   me my first injection of crystal meth it was very painful, but   
   after all the troubles, I became addicted to the pain and   
   fetish/fantasy."   
      
   Ed Buck contributed thousands of dollars to the California   
   Democratic Party, candidates running for office and those in   
   elected office including State Senator Kevin de Leon, Governer   
   Gavin Newsom, former Governor Jerry Brown and Los Angeles Mayor   
   Eric Garcetti.   
      
   At the time of the news of Moore’s death, the California   
   Democratic Party was being led by one of Buck’s friends? — ?Eric   
   Bauman? — ?someone who I believe helped to protect Buck with his   
   silence and willingness to look the other way.   
      
   But in some kind of poetic justice, Bauman himself? — ?the first   
   openly gay head of the state party? — ?would later be dethroned   
   over claims he sexually harassed and assaulted people at   
   political events.   
      
   I believe that California’s Democratic Party is in the middle of   
   a morals and values crisis.   
      
   Our party no longer reflects the interests of the people it   
   serves and many of its members are disillusioned.   
      
   That’s not the kind of political party I want to belong to. One   
   that sees the lives of Black people as being expendable. As   
   Black Democrats, that is not the type of return we expect on our   
   years of investing in the Democratic Party with our votes.   
      
   If Gemmel Moore had been a white male or female? — ?I seriously   
   doubt the Party leadership would have been able to sweep it   
   under the rug the way they so carelessly and deliberately did.   
      
   The California Democratic Party is the largest Democratic Party   
   organization outside of Washington, D.C. With 43.5 percent of   
   the state’s registered voters, the Democratic Party has the   
   highest number of registrants of any political party in   
   California.   
      
   And even though the number of Blacks living in California   
   continues to decline, thanks in part to gentrification, we’re   
   still here, we’re still voting Democratic and we deserve to be   
   represented and to have our voices and issues heard at every   
   level.   
      
   Black people are more than just the backbone of the Democratic   
   Party? — ?we are the heart and soul of the Democratic Party and   
   at the same time the least likely to be represented and to hold   
   positions of power within it.   
      
   For too long, as a Black woman living in Southern California,   
   I’ve had one foot in the Democratic Party and one foot out. I   
   never really had the feeling that my state’s party cared about   
   women like me or the issues important to us? — ?but was always   
   more than willing to take advantage of our votes.   
      
   Unbeknownst to most voters, in California, every two years   
   Democrats elect members to represent the Assembly District they   
   are registered in.   
      
   These people are called AD Delegates. AD Delegates are elected   
   by voters in their Assembly District and vote on behalf of the   
   community they represent at California Democratic Party Regional   
   Meetings, the California Democratic Party Convention, and those   
   who are also elected to serve as an Executive Board member are   
   responsible for voting and representing their community at the   
   semi-annual E-Board meetings. AD Delegates are directly   
      
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