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Report: Defund the Police ‘Squad’ Members Spent over $325K on Private Security in 2021
breitbart ^ | 1 Feb 2022 | JACOB BLISS

Posted on 02/01/2022 7:00:16 PM PST by MarvinStinson

Defund the Police sympathizers from the so-called “Squad” collectively spent over $325,000 on private security in 2021, after continuously promoting the radical left-wing policy, according to a report.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports analyzed by Fox News revealed that Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) was one of the biggest spenders from the so-called “Squad.” Bush reportedly spent over $65,000 in the fourth financial quarter filing alone on private security, totaling approximately $200,000 combined in 2021, using firms like Peace Security and Whole Armor Executive Protection.

AD Bush, who spent the most out of all of the Squad members, was sworn into office at the beginning of last year but has been a large supporter of defunding the police. Last year, during a live CBS News interview, she said, “defunding the police has to happen,” but when confronted about hiring private security, she replied: “You would rather me die? Is that what you want to see? You want to see me die?”

The report indicated that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) only spent about $9,800 during the fourth financial quarter filing, but in 2021 she totaled $75,000 — the second biggest spending on private security from the Squad, but tens of thousands of dollars less than Bush.

In the summer of 2020, at the height of the defund the police movement, Ocasio-Cortez, in a statement regarding the proposed budget cuts to the New York Police Department, said, “Defunding police means defunding police.”

She continued: “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget, so the exact same police remain in schools.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) reportedly spent $30,000 on private security in 2021 after she supported “dismantling” the police department in Minneapolis in 2020.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 325k; bidenvoters; defundthepolice; security; squad

1 posted on 02/01/2022 7:00:16 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

AOC budget for special security protection might include this (Ursula Andress in the 10th Victim movie before Austin Powers)-——

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/8px6sz/a_bra_gun_before_austin_powers/

Can’t be too carefu. remember on Jan. 6th she feared for her very life (although she was never inside the Capitol that day).


2 posted on 02/01/2022 7:08:09 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: MarvinStinson
Report: Defund the Police ‘Squad’ Members -Spent- WASTED over $325K on Private Security in 2021
3 posted on 02/01/2022 7:21:26 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: MarvinStinson

Its pronounced “The Squat”
:)


4 posted on 02/01/2022 7:58:10 PM PST by Zathras
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To: MarvinStinson
The squad strikes me as Animal Farm meets Animal House. The pig analogy seems particularly appropriate
5 posted on 02/01/2022 8:17:08 PM PST by rdcbn1
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To: MarvinStinson

“Defund the Police sympathizers from the so-called “Squad” collectively spent over $325,000 on private security in 2021”

More than likely WE THE TAXPAYERS collectively spent $325,000 on their security.


6 posted on 02/01/2022 8:22:23 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

I want to know how they paid for this.


7 posted on 02/01/2022 8:25:42 PM PST by Aria
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To: MarvinStinson

So they spend as much on dudes with guns for protection as they make working for the government.

Wonder how that works? 🤪


8 posted on 02/01/2022 8:37:19 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: MarvinStinson
Deport: Defund the Police ‘Squad’

Members Spent over $325K on Private Security in 2021.

That's better...

9 posted on 02/01/2022 8:48:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: MarvinStinson

“You would rather me die? Is that what you want to see? You want to see me die?”

Well… it seemed rude to bring it up… but since you asked…


10 posted on 02/01/2022 11:19:16 PM PST by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: MarvinStinson

This psycho commie racist sure isn’t Bush League when it comes to spending other people’s money!.


11 posted on 02/02/2022 12:33:30 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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