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Soros Drops $1 Million on Anti-Police Effort in Austin
freebeacon ^ | October 15, 2021 | Joseph Simonson

Posted on 10/17/2021 2:13:10 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Left-wing billionaire George Soros is throwing at least a million dollars behind an effort to stop the hiring of hundreds of new police officers in Austin, Texas, according to campaign finance documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Hungarian-born political activist gave $500,000 through the Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center to a political action committee in opposition to a ballot initiative that forces the city to employ two police officers per 1,000 residents.

Soros’s donation, made on Oct. 12, is his second of the month and comes as Austin experiences a decades-high spike in violent crime. The city has seen at least 67 homicides this year, the highest since at least 1981. Aggravated assaults are also up at least 10 percent, following a 26 percent spike in 2020.

On Oct. 1, the Open Society Policy Center cut its first $500,000 check to Equity PAC, a Texas-based political organization that backs left-wing causes. The donation is the latest example of Soros’s involvement in various left-wing causes at the local level. In 2020, Soros donated over $600,000 to a Texas-based left-wing group that backed the election of José Garza, who now serves as district attorney for Travis County, where Austin sits.

Since 2015, Soros has spent more than $17 million on various local races, including donations to left-wing prosecutors and state legislators. Virtually every candidate backed by Soros and the Open Society Foundations has supported a dramatic reduction in or elimination of cash bail and other policies critics say lead to higher crime.

Other large donors to Equity Pac include the Texas American Federation of Teachers, which gave $10,000, and Movement Voter PAC, a left-wing organization based in Maryland. The Washington, D.C.-based Fairness Project also contributed $200,000.

Voters will decide on the ballot initiative at the polls on Nov. 2 or via early voting from Oct. 18 through Oct. 29. Estimates for the cost of hiring new officers range from $54 million to $120 million a year, per the city’s chief financial officer.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: austin; budget; police; soros; texas
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1 posted on 10/17/2021 2:13:10 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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"Since 2015, Soros has spent more than $17 million on various local races, including donations to left-wing prosecutors and state legislators. Virtually every candidate backed by Soros and the Open Society Foundations has supported a dramatic reduction in or elimination of cash bail and other policies critics say lead to higher crime."

Much more importantly, this has led to fraudulent & stolen elections...

2 posted on 10/17/2021 2:23:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: MarvinStinson

Are the people of Austin being informed of this?


3 posted on 10/17/2021 2:24:50 PM PDT by simpson96
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Can someone explain in detail what he hopes to gain from this?


4 posted on 10/17/2021 2:28:04 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Moving toward NWO status and the Biblical Great Tribulation. If Trump had been elected so much would not have been exposed. It is dripping evil!


5 posted on 10/17/2021 2:28:48 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com - Our ONLY hope! )
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Chaos. Pure chaos.


6 posted on 10/17/2021 2:33:20 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: simpson96

Only Proves Americans can be bought. Rather than Bomb Pearl Harbor Japan should have bought the Democrat Party and FDR. We would have sold them Oil and let them have the Pacific—much cheaper than war. Rather than Build Nukes, Stalin should have just bought politicians and newspapers—He could have seized Europe with little loss of life.


7 posted on 10/17/2021 2:36:59 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: MarvinStinson
There be some people, jus' be needin' killin'!


8 posted on 10/17/2021 2:50:56 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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I sure would like to give George the Clot Shot.


9 posted on 10/17/2021 2:55:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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more specifically, none of Soros’ picks are hot on voter and electoral fraud

He obviously sees Austin as essential to turning Texas from Red to Purple to Blue


10 posted on 10/17/2021 3:11:10 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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Insane foreign felon with all the money in the world hell bent on destroying American society. Just great.


11 posted on 10/17/2021 3:14:14 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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I cannot believe this a hole has not been “dropped” himself.


12 posted on 10/17/2021 3:25:44 PM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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I have a special bottle for the day this SOB croaks.


13 posted on 10/17/2021 3:33:29 PM PDT by windsorknot
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I would think that Soros would get a bigger bang for his buck by financing Chiefs of Police.


14 posted on 10/17/2021 3:48:57 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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So, once Satan Soros gives big money to a candidate, what do they do with it?


15 posted on 10/17/2021 4:39:42 PM PDT by ClarityGuy
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George Soros .... Satan has your suite ready... please use it.


16 posted on 10/17/2021 5:02:04 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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Israel, do us a favor...take care of this Nazi collaborator. Our government is useless.


17 posted on 10/17/2021 5:20:31 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SuperLuminal

‘Since 2015, Soros has spent more than $17 million on various local races, including donations to left-wing prosecutors and state legislators. Virtually every candidate backed by Soros and the Open Society Foundations has supported a dramatic reduction in or elimination of cash bail and other policies critics say lead to higher crime.”

Why isn’t this *sshole commie fraud in jail or dead already - hell and pain he has caused to this country - he and all the other super lucky rich and powerful satin loving “healthy” roaming the earth killing the innocent and ruining lives - thank you jesus thank you! Great to be alive man oh man


18 posted on 10/17/2021 9:23:25 PM PDT by ldish (ENOUGH is ENOUGH! We NEED TRUMP - NOW! Our country is going to hell on a rail!)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

consolidation of power in centralized governments, then control of that government thru use if election funding, then contol of agendas and finally control of contracts, markets and citizens.


19 posted on 10/17/2021 9:55:57 PM PDT by griffin
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Sure would be horrible if all Georgie’s offspring could be culled in front of him right before he himself is sent to the next world.


20 posted on 10/17/2021 9:59:36 PM PDT by griffin
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