The four-member Democratic sister gang in the U.S. House of Representatives are members of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that is pushing for cuts in police funding. The Daily Caller reported Monday, April 19, that according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by the outlet, the four congresswomen who want to cut police costs each spent thousands of dollars on private security for themselves in the first quarter of the year.
AOC, representing New York, Ilhan Omar, representing Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley, representing Massachusetts, and Cori Bush, from Missouri, each spent thousands of dollars on their own security, the FEC report shows. The payments are described as “security” or “security services” in Federal Election Commission filings.
In a statement, the AOC said, “Cutting police funding is cutting police funding. It can’t be that by taking the cuts to the police department budget and shifting them to the education department’s school police budget, isn’t that money still going to the police?”
AOC speaking outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., last Nov. 19
In a live broadcast on Instant Wire (Instagram) last June, AOC said that if police funding was eliminated across the country, America would look like the suburbs. Because “wealthy white communities just spend more money on funding youth, health, housing, than police funding.”
But in the first quarter of this year, AOC spent $3,000 a month on a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based security consultant. She purchased three months of security consulting from the company for a total of $9,000, records show.
Omar, who supports eliminating police funding, spent $3,103.61 on her own security in Minnesota in the first quarter of this year, according to her financial report for the first quarter of this year, released in April.
Rep. Omar, a candidate for Congress, speaks at a voting event on the University of Minnesota campus on Nov. 3, 2020
Omar appeared on CNN last June and was asked about police funding, to which Omar responded at the time, “The policing system can’t just be reformed because it’s rotten to the core, it can only be rebuilt.” She said, “The infrastructure that currently serves as our city’s policing should no longer exist; we can’t go out and create a different policing process with the same infrastructure.”
Another ardent supporter of cutting police costs is Rep. Pressley, whose financial report for the first quarter of this year shows that she spent $4,186.75 on “security services” in the first quarter.
Rep. Pressley speaks at Boston City Hall on March 24.
In an interview with Time magazine last June, Pressley said she supports cuts to the police budget as “an investment in historically stripped communities.”
According to Cory Bush’s quarterly financial report for April, the Democratic freshman, who has pushed for cuts to the police budget, spent more than $30,000 on her own security in the first quarter of the year.
Rep. Cory Bush, attending the March 12, 2021 rally of the full Commission on Incarcerated Women and Girls near the White House in Washington, D.C.
Cory Bush sent a tweet in December 2020 criticizing former President Barack Obama for not calling for cuts to the police budget. Corey Bush tweeted, “With all due respect, Mr. President, we lost Michael Brown Jr, we lost Breonna Taylor, we lost loved ones to police brutality. This is not a slogan, this is a mandate to keep our people alive. We need to cut the police budget.”
In the area of using the police force for self-preservation, Maxine Waters, 82, was also blasted this week. According to a travel log obtained by the editors of conservative media outlet Townhall, Waters asked the U.S. Capitol Police to escort her “in and out” of Minneapolis on Saturday. Congresswoman Waters was flying from Dulles International Airport in Washington to St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota in solidarity with protesters in Brooklyn Center demanding the conviction of Officer Shovan in the Floyd murder case.
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