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Val Demings Says It’s Harder To Be a Politician Than a Police Officer

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Florida Dem Senate nominee has centered her campaign on her ex-cop status

Collin Anderson • October 24, 2022 3:10 pm

It’s much harder to be a politician than a police officer—at least if you ask Florida’s Democratic Senate candidate Val Demings.

“You know, after 27 years as a law enforcement officer, there’s no doubt that’s a tough job, that’s a hard job, no doubt about it,” said Demings, a former Orlando police chief. “But being in elected office—that’s a whole ‘nother level, y’all.”

Demings’s remarks came at a rally Saturday in Pensacola and are likely to anger Florida’s law enforcement community, particularly given that Demings enjoys an array of perks as a congresswoman that she did not receive as a police officer.

Demings’s congressional salary, for example, sits at $174,000, allowing the Democrat to own a Washington, D.C., condo in addition to her Florida residence. Even after state cops in August received their first pay raise in years, the average state-level officer in Florida earns just under $60,500 a year. Demings’s job as a congresswoman also took the Democrat and her husband to Israel for a policy seminar in 2017, a trip that cost nearly $27,000. And in 2021, zero members of Congress died in the line of duty, compared to 52 Florida law enforcement officers.

“For congresswoman Demings to say that sitting around in Washington and voting with [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi 100 percent of the time is a harder job than what we do every day is just despicable,” Marion County sheriff Billy Woods told the Washington Free Beacon. “It proves once and for all that she’s completely abandoned the law enforcement community and turned into a creature of the swamp.”

Demings, whose campaign did not return a request for comment, has worked to unseat Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio in large part by running on her background as a police chief. Demings in 2007 “made history when she was appointed to serve as [Orlando’s] first female Chief of Police,” her campaign site states, and the Democrat often touts that position to prove she’s a “no-nonsense, tough-on-crime leader who knows how to keep our communities safe.” In August, Demings went as far as to say she’s inherently immune to criticism from Florida’s law enforcement community because she is “the police.” “I don’t just support the police. I am the police,” the Democrat said.


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