No Horse in This Race

As some blog readers will remember, during the last race for district attorney of LA County, we took some pains to point out that the incumbent DA Jackie Lacey had (improperly, in our view) pursued a criminal case against a UCLA professor for a fatal lab accident and attempted to hold another faculty member in an unrelated matter hostage as part of that case.* Lacey lost to challenger George Gascón. Gascón was later subject to a failed recall effort.** He will be up for reelection in 2024. We point this fact out because there have been recent news stories about that upcoming election and those seeking to challenge Gascón.***

For the record, this time around, we don't have a horse in the DA election race.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-da-election-contest-part-2.html.

**https://archive.org/details/recall-gascon-from-pro-recall-website.

***https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-28/head-of-l-a-county-d-a-s-union-becomes-latest-2024-challenger-to-george-gascon.