Vance Gets Ohio FOP Backing Despite Ryan’s ‘Defund Law Enforcement’ Claim
In a television ad last month, Ohio U.S. Rep. and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan claimed that his opponent, Republican venture capitalist J.D. Vance “wants to defund law enforcement” by eliminating the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Yet it was Vance who received an endorsement from the Ohio Fraternal Order of Police this week.
Ryan, a 10-term Congressman from northeast Ohio, portrayed himself as a supporter of law enforcement—and Vance as a candidate who does not—in an ad featuring Stark County Sheriff George Maier.
Dressed in uniform and standing in front of a squad car, Maier looked in the camera and said that it makes him angry when Vance “calls law enforcement corrupt” and “that makes my job harder. So does J.D.’s plan to eliminate an agency that combats violent drug offenders.”
After Maier’s comments, a message appears on screen that says, “J.D. Vance wants to defund law enforcement.”
The spot also cited a Feb. 1, 2022 tweet from Vance when he wrote he would “fight to abolish the ATF,” which is a federal law enforcement agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) speaks during an event at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2019. (Duane Prokop/Getty Images for Wellness Your Way Festival)
In the ad, Maier also says that “Tim Ryan knows defunding the police is ridiculous. He’s brought back $467 million to put good cops on the street.”
Vance, who is endorsed by former president Donald Trump and won the Republican nomination amid a heated primary with seven candidates on May 3, has said multiple times that he wants to terminate the ATF.
Though Ryan is projecting a pro-police stance as part of his platform, he had harsh words for the criminal justice system in
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