Joanna Mendoza Fundraises From Defund The Police Radicals In California
Democrat lobbyist Joanna Mendoza traveled to Los Angeles to raise campaign cash from far-left activists who championed defunding the police, a new investigation revealed.
The report exposed Mendoza’s continued embrace of the dangerous defund the police movement she supported in 2020.
“Democrat lobbyist Joanna Mendoza flew to Los Angeles to fill her campaign coffers with cash from radicals who gutted police departments and turned California cities into crime-ridden disasters. Mendoza called for defunding the police in 2020, and it’s obvious she shares these far-left activists’ views.” – NRCC Spokesperson Ben Petersen
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Dem House Candidate Fundraises With Groups That Called To Defund Police While Saying She Doesn’t Support Defunding Police
Washington Free Beacon
Zach Kessel
July 14, 2026
The presumptive Democratic nominee in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District, JoAnna Mendoza, is attempting to distance herself from her past comments calling to defund police. At the same time, she’s holding fundraisers with far-left groups that have called to defund police, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
On Friday, for example, Mendoza headlined a big-ticket fundraiser in Los Angeles’s affluent Brentwood neighborhood, cohosted by the Heart of LA Democratic Club. The club, which describes its mission as “championing feminist leadership and women’s full representation in politics and policy,” repeatedly backed the Defund the Police movement. In a since-deleted June 2020 tweet, it praised the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter’s “compelling presentation to LA City Council on defunding the police” as “a big step towards progress.” The club backed a bill to defund police around the same time, and one of its officers, Sarah Kate Levy, said she “see[s] clearly the need to defund.”
Months earlier, in January, Mendoza held another Brentwood fundraiser with the Los Angeles-based Stonewall Democratic Club, which signed a 2020 letter calling for the “divestment of public funding from police” and a resolution calling for “budget reallocation” from police departments “to programs that end systemic, abusive, and unlawful use of lethal force on Black and Brown People.” The move, the group said, was about joining “the struggle to end white supremacy, institutional racism, individual bigotry, and mass denial.”
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In 2020, when Mendoza ran unsuccessfully for Arizona’s State Senate, an audience member at a virtual town hall asked her whether she would “defund the police,” to which she replied that she supports “the reallocation of funding” away from law enforcement.
“Police reform is just one aspect of addressing systemic racism in our nation, and specifically here in Arizona,” Mendoza said. “I support the reallocation of funding to programs that would allow people to live their best lives, such as the social service programs, such as housing, public education, health care, ensuring that we’re addressing economic stability and environmental safety.”
In that same virtual town hall, Mendoza accused police officers of violating their “oath to protect and serve their communities” and appeared to justify the anti-police riots that swept the United States following George Floyd’s death.
“There are hundreds, hundreds of deaths at the hands—murders—at the hands of police brutality,” she said. “And so what we’re seeing right now from folks is we’re seeing the demand for change through the protests, through the civil unrest. We are seeing that folks no longer trust law enforcement agencies who, by the way, have taken an oath to protect and serve their communities and have clearly violated that oath time and time again.”
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The Arizona Police Association endorsed Ciscomani in May, not long after the “reallocation” video came to light.
Mendoza’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Policing is not the only area of inconsistency for Mendoza. Shortly after the Free Beacon reported that she had a net worth of up to $4.7 million, according to her 2025 financial disclosure, Mendoza issued a new financial disclosure claiming she is worth no more than $336,000. The new filing also revealed that she had concealed ownership of a rental property in Tucson worth between $250,000 and $500,000.