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$26,000 is a lot of money for a political candidate. They would
know immediately if they’d returned that amount of money from a
donor. So California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de
León’s response to being asked publicly if he’d returned the
over $26,000 he’d received from scandal engulfed prominent
Democratic donor Ed Buck–was less than honest.\

The question came up at a recent candidate’s forum held by the
Feel the Bern Democratic Club of Los Angeles and seemed to
completely catch De León off guard. His initial reaction was to
deflect and point out all of the other politicians who received
money from Buck instead of taking responsibility for his own
inactions.

Gemmel Moore died of a crystal meth overdose in Ed Buck’s home
last July. His death was immediately classified as an accidental methamphetamine overdose by the coroner, but after his personal
journal was published and other young men stepped forward
recounting similar stories about a man who they say has a
Tuskegee Experiment like fetish which includes shooting drugs
into young Black men that he picks up off the street or via
dating hookup websites, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s
opened a homicide investigation.

In his journal, Moore wrote, “I honestly don’t know what to do.
I’ve become addicted to drugs and the worst one at that,’ a
December entry reads. ‘Ed Buck is the one to thank. He gave me
my first injection of crystal meth it was very painful, but
after all the troubles, I became addicted to the pain and
fetish/fantasy.”

“My life is at an alltime [sic] high right now & I mean that
from all ways. I ended up back at Buck [sic] house again and got
munipulated [sic] into slamming again. I even went to the point
where I was forced to doing 4 within a 2day [sic] period. This
man is crazy and its [sic] sad. Will I ever get help?”

His last entry, dated Dec. 3, 2016, reads: “If it didn’t hurt so
bad, I’d kill myself, but I’ll let Ed Buck do it for now.”

A coroner’s report confirmed that the popular Democratic donor’s
home was littered with drug paraphernalia including 24 syringes
with brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn
marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear
plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag
with a “piece of crystal-like substance.” The police report
also indicated that someone at the scene “is suspected to be
known to exchange drugs for sex.”

And even though Democrats–from California to Washington
D.C.–have wasted no time in calling for Republicans to return
the cash of Las Vegas casino giant and Republican National
Committee finance chairman Steve Wynn after sexual misconduct
allegations surfaced from women who worked at Wynn’s
casinos–they’ve been less than willing to return the dirty money
of their own donors.

To be fair, De León is one name on a long list of those who
received donations from Buck. A list that includes California
gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom, Congressmembers Ted Lieu
and Adam Schiff and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

In California, De León has been positioning himself as the
progressive Democrat’s choice to unseat incumbent United States
Senator Dianne Feinstein in the upcoming election.

By way of disclosure, I spoke with De León in person at the
winter meeting of the California Democratic Party in Millbrae.
He assured me then that the money was going to be returned or
had already been returned–a mixed message that I immediately
passed onto Moore’s mother Latisha Nixon. I told De León to
have his people give me a call if they had any problems getting
the money to the fund set up to support Buck’s victims. That
was November.

Furthermore, I met with you last November at the meeting of the
African American Caucus and you said then it was or would be
taken care and it has not been. #GemmelMoore #receipts pic.twitter.com/z1O8PFXPDb

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) February 1, 2018

So I was more than a little perplexed at his response during the
candidate’s forum about returning Buck’s money. De León (and
his people) knew that the ask was not for the money to be given
to some random nonprofit organization or to be returned back to
Ed Buck–but to be given back to the people harmed by Ed Buck and
where it could do the most good.

Many of of Buck’s victims are all young, Black, gay men who are
either homeless or on the verge of being homeless–a demographic
that I would argue De León cares and knows nothing about. Some
of these young men are still on drugs while others have kicked
the habit and are trying to get their lives together. A few are
sick–really sick. And then there’s Gemmel Moore’s family who is
closely monitoring the sheriff’s department’s homicide
investigation in hopes that criminal charges are eventually
filed against Buck.

When women in the entertainment industry fighting sexual
harassment made the call for donations to be made to the Time’s
Up Legal Defense Fund–a fund set up to provide funding for
legal support to women and men in all who have experienced
sexual harassment, assault, or abuse in the workplace–the call
was very clear. Give the money to a fund put into place to
directly help and support the victims.

A similar public ask was made to Democrats in California last
year in the wake of the tragic death Gemmel Moore–return the
money to a fund set up to assist in supporting the young, Black
gay victims of Buck’s and fighting for justice for Gemmel Moore.

To date Congressmember Karen Bass has returned her money in
addition to Democratic attorney and Congressional candidate
Bryan Caforio. Stonewall Democratic Club returned a fraction of
the money Buck gave to them and West Hollywood Councilmember
John D’Amico returned $25 of the thousands he received from Buck.

While De León wants to be seen as a champion of women who have
been sexual harassed or abused and the #MeToo movement–even
asking his colleague and former roommate Senator Tony Mendoza to
take a leave of absence as investigators look into allegations
that Mendoza sexually harassed several women–he’s been less than
forthright in his dealings about Ed Buck and returning Buck’s
dirty money.

Kevin De León has not returned the money he received from Ed
Buck.

I would argue that during De León’s time in office thus far,
Blacks have never been a priority or for that matter a concern
for him. But now De León is sending a clear message that the
lives and experiences of African Americans, in particular Black
gay men, just aren’t that relevant to him.

If Blacks–and voters period–in California want a preview of
their importance to Kevin De León should he manage to unseat
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, they need look no further than
his response (or lack thereof) to the death of Gemmel Moore.

https://www.jasmyneacannick.com/kevin-de-leons-response-to- returning-donors-dirty-money-foreshadows-whats-to-come-if-hes- elected-to-the-u-s-senate/

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