Los Angeles city controller candidate Rob Wilcox endorses Gascon recall campaign

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The recall campaign has collected more than 400,000 signatures and raised
$6 million

Rob Wilcox, a candidate for city controller and a spokesman for the Los
Angeles city attorney's office, on Friday endorsed a recall campaign
against LA County District Attorney George Gascon.

The recall campaign told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that it has
collected more than 400,000 signatures and raised $6 million. The campaign
needs 566,857 signatures – 10% of registered voters – by the July 6
deadline to put the recall question on November's ballot.

"In less than a year and a half, George Gascon has shunned victims and
their families, shown contempt for his dedicated deputies’ hard work and
judgment, and bent over backwards to accommodate violent criminals,"
Wilcox said in a Friday statement. "Gascon is a study in arrogance. While
crime ricochets throughout our neighborhoods, he has spurned the advice of
the dedicated career prosecutors in his office and instead, he has
stubbornly doubled down on his failed and short-sighted policies of
leniency for criminals."

City controllers handle city money, acting as both auditors and
accountants that help manage different municipal departments.

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Wilcox, who is also a former deputy LA City controller, listed "three
things" he believes are "wrongheaded moves" from Gascon, including
"forbidding filing sentencing enhancements for violent crimes and use of
guns in crimes"; "ignoring and abandoning victims of crime, both in new
cases and at parole hearings"; and "pursuing multiple policies which
blatantly ignore state law and propositions passed by voters."

"As City Controller, I have pledged to find a myriad of ways to make our
city so much safer," Wilcox said. "However, it is a challenging task
because the current DA puts the rights and interests of accused and
convicted criminals well ahead of those of the general public and victims
of crime. We must remove Gascón because his flawed experiment in criminal
justice ‘reform’ is endangering every resident of the City of Los
Angeles."

Gascon on Thursday reversed a policy barring his deputy district attorneys
from seeking cash bail, which he wanted to eliminate, as criticism of his
office continues to mount amid a rise in crime and calls for his ouster.

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A memo to prosecutors from Sharon Woo, the chief deputy district attorney
and second-in-command to District Attorney George Gascon, outlined a plan
to create develop a pre-trial services program that would balance "both
the rights of the accused while protecting public safety" as an
alternative to cash bail.

"After listening to the community, victims and members of this Office, I
have decided to allow limited exceptions to the pre-trial release policy
while such a program is finalized," the memo states.

The most recent criticisms of Gascon came after his office declined to
file felony charges against the man accused of attacking comedian Dave
Chappelle during a May 3 performance at the iconic Hollywood Bowl with a
replica gun-knife.

Additionally, a transgender LA inmate named Hannah Tubbs, who was
previously convicted of molesting a child and sentenced to two years in a
juvenile facility after being tried as a minor under Gascon's policies,
was charged with murder and robbery earlier this week.

"Tubbs had a very lengthy criminal record before George Gascón allowed
Tubbs to be sentenced to minimal time in a juvenile facility, which
included arrests and convictions for murder, robbery, assault with a
deadly weapon, domestic violence and even a prior sexual assault of a 4-
yr-old girl," Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami told Fox
News Digital at the time.

Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

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