Posted on 12/28/2020 4:53:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Georgia Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock both insist they oppose defunding the police, a message that might be more convincing if they didn’t enjoy staunch support of the Black Lives Matter PAC.
The relatively new political action committee, which champions the “defund the police” slogan, has embraced the Democratic hopefuls, holding voter-turnout events and releasing a campaign ad on Dec. 22 that includes a mural of NFL free agent and fierce law-enforcement detractor Colin Kaepernick.
“This election matters because we need representation: of race, background, & generation,” tweeted the BLM PAC on Monday. “Let’s get @ReverendWarnock & @ossoff in.”
Launched Oct. 7, the BLM PAC’s co-founders include Black Lives Matter Global Network Executive Director Patrisse Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist” whose Twitter account is named, “fund the u.s. postal service – defund the police.”
The BLM PAC also is sponsoring virtual phone banks on behalf of the Georgia Democrats with the Working Families Party, whose “People’s Charter” includes a call for “shifting resources away from policing, jails and detention centers.”
The charter has some political juice behind it. Signers include Democratic progressive heroes such as Rep. Ro Khanna of California and all four members of “The Squad:” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
In the 30-second BLM PAC ad, a jogger runs past farms, houses and a mural of Mr. Kaepernick, who took the Black Lives Matter “defund the police” rallying cry a step further in October by calling for the abolition of police and prisons. He famously wore socks depicting officers as pigs at training camp in 2016.
The Ossoff and Warnock campaigns both confirmed in emails Monday that the candidates do not support defunding the police.
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Golly. It’s almost as if they want early voting so people won’t be able to change their minds and the progressive democrat can say whatever they like
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