George Soros
While The San Diego Union-Tribune endorsed Summer Stephan for San Diego County District Attorney yesterday, billionaire George Soros late last week dumped $1.5 million into the PAC supporting Stephan’s opponent, Geneviéve Jones-Wright. You can see the campaign disclosure form here. It lists the $1.5 million contribution from Soros to the PAC, as well as over $400,000 in expenditures in support of Jones-Wright.
The Deputy District Attorneys Association calls Soros “an out-of-state billionaire…attempting to buy the San Diego County District Attorney’s office…to implement an agenda that would put our public safety at risk.”
In December 2016, The Daily Signal published an article on his similar efforts, “The ‘Staggering’ Campaign of Liberal Billionaire George Soros to Swing Local Prosecutor Elections.”
A website, “Threat to San Diego,” details the Soros-backed efforts in support of Jones-Wright and also provides further details on $15 million spent by Soros in recent years “to elect anti-law enforcement prosecutors throughout the United States.”
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NOTE: This article has been updated to note that the the campaign disclosure form linked above “lists the $1.5 million contribution from Soros to the PAC, as well as over $400,000 in PAC expenditures in support of Jones-Wright.”