{"id":72207,"date":"2021-09-17T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72207"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:45:27","slug":"72207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=72207","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

BLUF:
\nThis is another example of \u201crules for thee but not for me.\u201d If \u201cThe Squad\u201d truly believed defunding the police was a good idea, they wouldn\u2019t hire off-duty cops for self-protection. ……….<\/em>It\u2019s time for them to sit down, shut up, and put their money where their mouth is. They should have to live like the rest of us, even if they are in the public eye.<\/em><\/p>\n

No Surprise: \u2018Squad\u2019 Members Pay the Most in Private Security While Working to Abolish the Police<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the last few years, \u201cThe Squad\u201d \u2013 comprised of Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Cori Bush (D-MO) \u2013 have worked to \u201cdefund the police.\u201d Although they continually say stupid things, like they want to \u201creimagining\u201d what policing in the United States looks like, the reality is simple: they want to do away with law enforcement agencies across the country.<\/p>\n

Americans across the country rely on two things to keep themselves and their families safe: law enforcement and\/or their Second Amendment rights. When an emergency takes place, most people call 911 and know at least one law enforcement officer will be there to help them in their time of need.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s amazing \u2013 although not surprising \u2013 is \u201cThe Squad\u201d wants to do away with emergency services for you and me. But that decision wouldn\u2019t impact them. In fact, the five women have spent a large sum of money\u00a0on local law enforcement officers\u00a0<\/em>for private security. That\u2019s right. Our lives aren\u2019t worth protecting but theirs are.<\/p>\n

But the real kicker? They spent more than any other House members on private security.<\/p>\n

The New York Post<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>broke down their security costs:<\/p>\n

In the two months between April 15 and June 28,\u00a0Bush spent nearly $70,000 of her campaign funds on personal security<\/strong>, the most of any House lawmaker. That\u2019s almost $20,000 above the median household income for residents in her district, which covers St. Louis and adjacent communities. Bush, who often wears a Black Lives Matter or a \u201cY\u2019All Gone Stop Killing Us!\u201d t-shirt, says she believes defunding the police would prevent the deaths of people like Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor. But it\u2019s unclear who would stop the killing that would then ensue. Of the 130 homicide victims in St. Louis so far this year, half of whose residents are African-American, all but ten victims were African-American (98 men and 22 women). The vast majority of these involved firearms \u2014 not one fired by a police officer.\u00a0<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

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Though Bush\u2019s security payments made up a third of her roughly $200,000 second-quarter campaign expenditures, most of that portion\u2014$54,120.92 \u2014 went to RS&T Security Consulting, a New York firm with two addresses in Manhattan and a website under construction.<\/strong>\u00a0The sole local recipient, Nathaniel Davis, whose address is the same as Bush\u2019s campaign committee, received three payments totaling $15,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

AOC has spent less on security and kept some of that spending local.\u00a0The $4,000 she spent during 2021\u2019s second quarter represented a big drop from more than $45,000 in the first quarter.<\/strong>\u00a0Though she represents parts of the Bronx and Queens, about $35,000 of Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s local spending in the first quarter went to firms with Brooklyn addresses, including three payments of $3,000 each to C\u2019est Bon Collective and two payments totaling about $25,000 to Three Bridges, LLC. In February, she also paid a Houston firm $1,552.50 to provide personal security when she visited the city during its hurricane-relief efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Like RS&T, the firm used by Bush, neither C\u2019est Bon nor Three Bridges provide much online information about their businesses. But Tullis Worldwide Protection, the Virginia firm that Ocasio-Cortez paid about $4,000 in January, touts the experience of its CEO, Devin Tullis, including stints with private military contractor Blackwater, whose employees were accused of committing war crimes in Iraq. Questioned about his work for AOC, Tullis said little but noted that he is \u201cnot hiring social workers\u201d\u2014the Squad\u2019s preferred option to replace police.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pressley and Omar were more modest than their colleagues in their security expenditures, but they still spent far more than most House members.\u00a0Pressley spent more than $4,000 in the first quarter of 2021 and more than $3,500 in the second quarter.<\/strong>\u00a0While some of her spending was local, she employed a Virginia company in January and a Washington, D.C., firm in March.\u00a0Omar also reduced her security bills in the second quarter, from slightly over $3,000 to $2,800, all spent locally in St. Paul and nearby Ramsey, Minnesota.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This is another example of \u201crules for thee but not for me.\u201d If \u201cThe Squad\u201d\u00a0truly\u00a0<\/em>believed defunding the police was a good idea, they wouldn\u2019t hire off-duty cops for self-protection. If \u201cThe Squad\u201d believed social workers could deescalate situations that law enforcement officers would otherwise handle, they would hire social workers to travel with them to handle scenarios that would typically require private security.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for them to sit down, shut up, and put their money where their mouth is. They should have to live like the rest of us, even if they are in the public eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BLUF: This is another example of \u201crules for thee but not for me.\u201d If \u201cThe Squad\u201d truly believed defunding the police was a good idea, they wouldn\u2019t hire off-duty cops for self-protection. ……….It\u2019s time for them to sit down, shut up, and put their money where their mouth is. They should have to live like … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-law-order","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72208,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72207\/revisions\/72208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}