{"id":1071256,"date":"2021-12-01T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1071256"},"modified":"2021-12-01T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:14:11","slug":"amazing-work-wisconsin-dem-lauds-group-that-aims-to-defund-police-abolish-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazing-work-wisconsin-dem-lauds-group-that-aims-to-defund-police-abolish-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amazing Work\u2019: Wisconsin Dem Lauds Group That Aims to Defund Police, Abolish ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazing-work-wisconsin-dem-lauds-group-that-aims-to-defund-police-abolish-ice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1071256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.396610169492\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Mandela Barnes &#8216;very honored&#8217; to land endorsement from liberal group behind &#8216;DefundPolice.org&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1157015325-1_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1157015325-1_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1157015325-1_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1157015325-1_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tWisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 December 1, 2021 5:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"100.85165257494\">\n<p>The Democratic frontrunner for Wisconsin&#8217;s Senate race lauded a liberal nonprofit for its &#8220;amazing work&#8221; to defund police and abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n<p>Mandela Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=--QQGeHmDCk&amp;t=528s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlined<\/a> the Center for Popular Democracy&#8217;s (CPD) &#8220;Hold Our Power Strategy Launch&#8221; on Nov. 15, saying he was &#8220;very honored&#8221; to land the liberal group&#8217;s endorsement given its &#8220;amazing work \u2026 in states all across the country.&#8221; CPD, which bills itself as the &#8220;nation&#8217;s largest progressive organizing network,&#8221; is at the center of the movement to defund police and has also called to curtail illegal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, CPD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.populardemocracy.org\/blog\/justice-transformation-cpd-network-join-uprisings-calls-defund-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organized<\/a> an array of &#8220;beautiful and powerful actions with calls to defund police&#8221; and touted its role in convincing local officials in liberal cities to cut tens of millions of dollars from their police budgets. Days later, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.populardemocracy.org\/blog\/education-justice-we-will-not-stop-until-all-schools-are-police-free\">hosted<\/a> a &#8220;national day of action&#8221; to demand that public schools across the country refuse to reopen until they are &#8220;police-free.&#8221; CPD also <a href=\"https:\/\/defundpolice.org\/about\/\">sponsors<\/a> DefundPolice.org, a self-described &#8220;comprehensive web resource where organizers can find everything they need for their campaign to defund police in one place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes&#8217;s praise for the group comes after he refused to distance himself from the &#8220;idea behind \u2018defund the police'&#8221; in an August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R32Myon3GV4\">interview<\/a> that also saw the Democrat reference &#8220;overpoliced communities.&#8221; Those remarks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrsc.org\/press-releases\/mandela-barnes-refuses-to-oppose-defunding-the-police-2021-08-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompted<\/a> Republicans to slam Barnes as soft on crime and &#8220;too liberal&#8221; for Wisconsin, attacks that could resonate in next year&#8217;s midterm elections. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suffolk.edu\/-\/media\/suffolk\/documents\/academics\/research-at-suffolk\/suprc\/polls\/issues-polls\/2021\/6_16_2021_marginals_pdftxt.pdf?la=en&amp;hash=A044AE6B462C4A1C1611E5A24FA8E0FA0DB2226C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suffolk University poll<\/a>, just 29 percent of residents in Milwaukee\u2014a Democratic stronghold\u2014support defunding police, while 62 percent would feel &#8220;safer&#8221; with more police on the job in their neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Animosity in Milwaukee toward the defund police movement has not stopped CPD from pushing the issue in 2021. In April, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/popdemoc\/status\/1384615023566336000?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> there is &#8220;no justice until we can defund police.&#8221; CPD president Jennifer Epps-Addison\u2014who introduced Barnes at the group&#8217;s November event\u2014has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeppsaddison\/status\/1269420026215317504?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> police &#8220;the private security force of white supremacy&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeppsaddison\/status\/1270929001645608961?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equated<\/a> the Black Lives Matter movement to defunding police.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Barnes nor CPD returned requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to CPD&#8217;s defund the police advocacy, the group has led the charge to abolish ICE, the Department of Homeland Security entity responsible for immigration enforcement and terrorism prevention. In 2018, CPD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/6\/28\/17515160\/womens-march-protests-family-separation-600-arrested\">co-organized<\/a> an &#8220;Abolish ICE&#8221; sit-in that led to the arrest of hundreds of protesters at the Senate&#8217;s Hart Office Building.<\/p>\n<p>CPD has also sparked controversy over its repeated harassment of elected officials. In October, one of the group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.populardemocracy.org\/our-partners\/living-united-change-arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partner organizations<\/a>, Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA), filmed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) in an Arizona State University bathroom\u2014a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/soros-gave-to-left-wing-group-that-accosted-sinema\/\">potential violation<\/a> of state law. CPD also organized protests outside of Sen. Joe Manchin&#8217;s (D., W.Va.) houseboat.<\/p>\n<p>CPD has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=Center+for+Popular+Democracy&amp;page=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">received<\/a> substantial funding\u2014nearly $11 million\u2014from the Open Society Foundations, a liberal group bankrolled by progressive billionaire George Soros. Soros confidant Pamela Shifman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/shadowy-liberal-donor-network-stands-by-activists-who-harassed-sinema-in-bathroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defended<\/a> LUCHA&#8217;s bathroom harassment of Sinema, calling the tactics necessary to &#8220;save the democracy we have and ensure it works for all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Barnes, who serves as Wisconsin&#8217;s lieutenant governor, has hobnobbed with radical activists. In September, the Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dem-senate-frontrunner-fundraises-with-radical-san-francisco-liberals-to-flip-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">traveled<\/a> to San Francisco to fundraise with the son of left-wing terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes and 11 other Democrats are running to replace Republican incumbent senator Ron Johnson. Barnes&#8217;s prominent primary opponents include state treasurer Sarah Godlewski, county executive Tom Nelson, and Milwaukee Bucks senior vice president Alex Lasry. Barnes holds a 29-point lead in the primary, September <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/571297-internal-poll-shows-barnes-with-29-point-lead-over-democratic-field-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">internal polling<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Mandela Barnes &#8216;very honored&#8217; to land endorsement from liberal group behind &#8216;DefundPolice.org&#8217;  Wisconsin Lt. Gov. 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