ICYMI: Dem candidates bankrolled by ‘defund the police donors’
Democrats like Sharice Davids have taken money from “the same wealthy liberals who poured thousands into promoting progressive crime policies in states like California and Florida, campaign finance records show.”
You read that right, Sharice Davids has received thousands from defund the police activists.
Dem candidates bankrolled by ‘defund the police donors’ targeted by House GOP
Fox News
August 20, 2024
The House GOP is setting its sights on a handful of Democratic candidates who have been bankrolled by left-wing billionaires whose money has also gone toward promoting what Republicans call “soft-on-crime” policies.
At least eight Democratic House candidates who have positioned themselves as left-of-center or moderate have received donations from the same wealthy liberals who poured thousands into promoting progressive crime policies in states like California and Florida, campaign finance records show.
All eight are also running in competitive districts, making them prime targets for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House Republicans’ campaign arm.
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Among the eight is Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., one of the most vulnerable Democrats this election cycle — the most recently available campaign finance data shows Davids received $3,300 in April from Quinn Delaney, a California billionaire who runs the nonprofit Akonadi Foundation.
The Akonadi Foundation committed $12.5 million to an Oakland-based initiative whose goals include closing youth prisons and taking police officers out of schools, according to its website.
Delaney also spent hundreds of thousands to help elect progressive Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, whose progressive reforms have been accused of making residents feel less safe during his tenure.
Delaney along with California megadonor Patty Quillin were named as two of four billionaires who “channeled $22 million toward criminal justice ballot measures and allied candidates the previous two years,” Politico wrote in 2021.
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“Voters have to remember what happened when George Soros funded all of those left-wing DAs,” John Feehery, a former aide to ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert and current partner at EFB Advocacy told Fox News Digital.
“Crime spiraled out of control. The same principle applies to these candidates. They will do what the billionaires want and the results won’t be pretty.”
Feehery argued there was a dissonance between such Democrats running more moderate campaigns while accepting funds from progressive sources. “They can try, but voters know where their bread is buttered,” he said.
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