Nathan Hochman Looks for Support in Pacific Palisades

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Community Council Member Chris Spitz (left) and Council President Sue Kohl, welcomed Nathan Hochman to the Palisades on Sunday.

Nathan Hochman, an independent candidate for Los Angeles County District Attorney, spent the morning at Pacific Palisades Farmers Market visiting with voters, who are worried about increased crime.

Hochman is running against George Gascon, a progressive, who initially put blanket policies into place when he was elected in 2020. His policies included not trying juveniles as adults, no matter how heinous the crime. In one high-profile case, a man who committed murder when he was 17 was released after serving just five years of a 50-to-life sentence because Gascón refused to argue he should remain in prison longer.

Gascon also was criticized for declining to seek to place Hannah Tubbs in an adult prison. She sexually assaulted a child when she was 17. A judge sentenced Tubbs, now 26, to two years in a youth facility.

Gascon prohibiting prosecutors from filling sentence enhancements, sentence allegations or Three Strikes.

The L.A. Times has endorsed Gascon, rejecting Hochman.

In an interview with the Times editorial board, Hochman said, “I will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. I will not let violent criminals out before they have served their full sentences.” The Times writes that because of that statement Hochman supports a “blanket policy.”

The editor attended the trial for Brianna Kupfer’s murderer and the sentencing. The judge told the courtroom that she would give the murder the toughest sentence that she could, but she could not control what legislators, or the district attorney might implement.

The L.A. Times writes, “now voters must decide whether to stick with Gascón’s reform orientation or step backward into a failed mindset in which justice is defined by the toughest charges and the longest sentences. Voters would be wise to step forward, not back.”

The L.A. Times is extremely shortsighted, as our Gascon’s policies.

If one looks at the Federal Bureau of Prisons Statistics for Inmate Race, about 1.5 percent are Asian, 38.9 percent are black, 2.8 percent are Native American and White are 56.8 percent.

It is not skin color nor poverty that puts people in prison. About 85 percent of youths in prison come from fatherless homes. Fathers are absent from about 80 percent of single-parent homes. America’s First Policy Institute reports:

• Father absence as a predictor of violence is robust for both male and female violence.
• 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from single-parent homes
• Most adolescents who enter the justice system have suffered from parental abandonment, substance abuse, or a dysfunctional household.
• In a study of 75 juvenile delinquents, 66% experienced fatherlessness, 20% had never lived with their father, and 25% had an alcoholic father.
• It has been reported that fatherless children are anywhere from 3 to 20 times more likely to be incarcerated than children raised in dual-parent households.

CTN supports Nathan Hochman, people need to feel safe on the streets again. Brianna Kupfer’s murderer should never be allowed out of jail to harm another family.

Hand in hand with supporting Nathan Hochman is voting Yes on Prop. 36.

People should not be allowed to daily steal $950, with no consequences. This proposition will allow penalties for repeat offenders for retail theft.

It would include criminal penalties for repeat offenders who sell Fentanyl.  It would mandate drug addicts to seek rehab or face prison. L.A. Times is also against this Prop.

Interestingly enough, the people who are giving the most money to convince voters to voter against Prop. 36, also supported Gascon in the last election.

There are three wealthy women Stacy H. Schusterman ($1 million), Patty Quillin ($500,000), and Quinn Delaney ($225,000), who have contributed to defeat Prop.36.

Stacy H. Schusterman served as an executive officer in her father’s oil and gas company. She sold the company for $7.2 billion in 2011. Then she founded Samson Energy, a deep-water drilling company.  From 2019 to 2020, Samson Energy contributed $2.5 million to liberal groups. She lives in Oklahoma.

Patty Quillin is married to Reed Hastings, the Netflix founder. They disposed of Netflix shares worth an estimated $1.1 billion, but still own 2.99 million shares, worth about $1.72 billion/ The couple gave $1.5 million to a Political Action Committee supporting George Gascon for Los Angeles District Attorney. Quillin also paid for an ad for Eunisses Hernandez, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The couple lives in Santa Cruz.

Starting in 2018, Quinn Delaney was part of a four-person Democratic mega donor group in California that supported prosecutor candidates who committed to increasing leniency in prosecutions, including Chesa Boudin in San Fransisco and George Gascon in Los Angeles. In 2019-2020, Delaney and the three other mega donors spent $22 million on criminal justice ballot measures, including to elect George Gascon (D-Los Angeles) as district attorney of Los Angeles. She lives in Piedmont, Ca.

CTN supports Nathan Hochman and a “Yes” on Prop. 36. Criminals need to know they will be held accountable for their crimes.

Sharon Kilbride, past president for the Palisades Task Force on Homelessness supports Hochman.

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