ICYMI: Sue Altman flip-flops on police
In case you missed it… New York Post reported last week that extreme Democrat Sue Altman scrubbed her old tweets advocating for defunding the police.
This comes as she tried to distance herself in a recent interview but the internet lasts forever.
Read more here and below.
NJ Dem House candidate Sue Altman flip-flops on police and public safety in resurfaced social media posts
September 19, 2024
New Jersey House Democratic candidate Sue Altman has disavowed several anti-law enforcement policies — including the “Defund the Police” movement — that she backed in past social media posts.
The former boss of the Garden State’s progressive Working Families Party has modified her past stances, telling NJ Spotlight News in an interview last week that she is “not in favor of defund the police.”
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But as her campaign to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Kean in New Jersey’s 7th District was heating up last fall, a Democratic campaign operative tweeted out a screenshot showing she supported defunding the police — a post that has since been deleted.
“NJ’s Sheriffs … are overwhelmingly white and male, snuggled in w[ith] our massive county government, and control HUGE budgets,” Altman posted on Twitter, now X.
“Those of us working on #DefundThePolice in Jersey might consider looking here,” she added.
The screenshot did not include a date, but the profile image matches Altman’s Twitter profile photo between 2019 and 2021, according to archived posts from her account.
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The Altman campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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