From: johnny@invalid.net   
      
   By Ronn Blitzer   
   Published June 2, 2022   
      
   Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon is trying to fight   
   off a recall effort to get him voted out of office, but he dismissed   
   the effort as one driven by "fear-mongering," likening it to a   
   decades-old political ad that critics accused of having racial   
   overtones.   
      
   Gascon made the accusation during an interview with the "How We Win"   
   podcast, saying that the recall campaign is "really driven by very   
   conservative, very right wing forces" that want to perpetuate a certain   
   culture.   
      
   "They have sort of created this false narrative about this is   
   anti-safety, which is kind of the same fear-mongering tactics frankly   
   that you can go back to the Nixon era, right, you know Willie Horton,"   
   Gascon said.   
      
   The Willie Horton ad was not from the Nixon era, but from when George   
   H.W. Bush was running for president against Democrat Michael Dukakis in   
   the 1988 election. The television spot, put out by a pro-Bush group,   
   used the story of Horton, a convict who escaped during a prison   
   furlough and committed rape, assault, and robbery.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/la-county-da-gascon-recall-race   
   based-fear-mongering   
      
   Racism is the only defense the liberal democrats have.   
      
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