Part I of this Article will present the results of two interlinked studies on candidate campaign finance in every election with a progressive prosecutor candidate from 2015 through 2019.\u00a0 The first study examines campaign funding disparities between incumbent prosecutors and progressive challengers, while the second examines the differentials using the Cost Per Vote (CPV) metric.\u00a0 Part II will discuss the major findings of the two studies, such as how progressive challengers in Democratic primaries seem to only win when a sufficient amount of Soros PAC money is granted, and how higher CPV values translate to greater tensions between local prosecutor offices and their communities.\u00a0 Part III traces how the Soros-reliant funding model for progressive prosecutors has created an unprecedented crisis of prosecutorial legitimacy in many major urban counties.\u00a0<\/em> Part IV presents public funding for prosecutor selections as one solution that can balance the desirability of competitiveness in prosecutor elections with the need to curb the backlash against prosecutors working to end mass incarceration.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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This is a major problem that cries out for critical attention.\u00a0 The article points to the real reason we see more and more “progressive prosecutors.”\u00a0 It’s not that going soft on criminals has become popular.\u00a0 It’s something rather different\u00a0 —\u00a0 in two words, Soros money.<\/p>\n
We’ve seen it more than once:\u00a0 The county or city prosecutor’s race is almost always a down-ballot contest that typically draws little by way of interest or contributions.\u00a0 This is particularly true at the primary stage, which is generally months before the general election.\u00a0 What the Soros-backed forces will do is concentrate on one-party (in practice, Democratic)\u00a0 jurisdictions.\u00a0 They put up and lavishly finance a far left challenger to the incumbent.\u00a0 This has a decent chance of success, particularly with the more left-leaning ideologically-inclined voters who tend to turn out for the primary.\u00a0 When it succeeds, as it did in Philadelphia or Arlington, VA (to name two), the primary winner is all but guaranteed to win in the general election.\u00a0 We are now seeing the results. (California district attorney elections are non-partisan.)<\/p>\n
For those who favor public financing of elections in order to help assure that Big Money does not tell the tale for an enormously important and powerful job, DA contests would be an excellent place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hat tip to Prof. Doug Berman for his post here (emphasis my own): The title of this post is the title of\u00a0this new article\u00a0in the latest issue of the\u00a0Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice\u00a0authored by Rory Fleming.\u00a0 Here is a part of its introduction: Part I of this Article will present the results of two interlinked studies on candidate campaign finance in every election with a progressive prosecutor candidate from 2015 through 2019.\u00a0 The first study examines campaign funding disparities between incumbent prosecutors and progressive challengers, while the second examines the differentials using the Cost Per Vote (CPV) metric.\u00a0 Part II will discuss the major findings of the two studies, such as how progressive challengers in Democratic primaries seem to only win when a sufficient amount of Soros PAC money is granted, and how higher CPV values translate to greater tensions between local prosecutor offices and their communities.\u00a0 Part III traces how the Soros-reliant funding model for progressive prosecutors has created an unprecedented crisis of prosecutorial legitimacy in many major urban counties.\u00a0 Part IV presents public funding for prosecutor selections as one solution that can balance the desirability of competitiveness in prosecutor elections with the need to curb the backlash against prosecutors working to end mass incarceration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prosecutors"],"yoast_head":"\n
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