{"id":1262974,"date":"2022-02-01T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1262974"},"modified":"2022-02-01T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:08:23","slug":"report-stacey-abrams-aligned-group-spent-over-1-2-million-on-private-security-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-stacey-abrams-aligned-group-spent-over-1-2-million-on-private-security-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Stacey Abrams-Aligned Group Spent over $1.2 million on Private Security in 2021"},"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%2Freport-stacey-abrams-aligned-group-spent-over-1-2-million-on-private-security-in-2021%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=1262974&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/11\/stacey-abrams-georgia-atlanta-11-2018-ap.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The political action committee aligned with Georgia\u2019s gubernatorial candidate&nbsp;Stacey Abrams spent more than&nbsp;$1.2 million on private security in 2021 despite the founder\u2019s push to defund the police in the past, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight PAC, a committee to \u201cfight\u201d voter suppression created by&nbsp;Abrams in 2018 after she lost the gubernatorial campaign to&nbsp;Gov. Brian Kemp and refused to&nbsp;concede, claiming there was voter suppression, spent more than over&nbsp;$1.2 million for private security last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stacey-abrams-group-paid-private-security-firm-last-year\">according<\/a> to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings reviewed by Fox News.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The report noted that the PAC used an&nbsp;Atlanta-based&nbsp;private security firm called&nbsp;Executive Protection Agencies (EPA Security) and paid them more than&nbsp;$550,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00693515\/1561520\/sb\/ALL\">from<\/a> July 2021 and November 2021, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00693515&amp;recipient_name=Executive+Protection+Agencies\">totaled<\/a> over&nbsp;$1.2 million throughout last year. However, while the Abrams-founded PAC spends over a million dollars on private security, Abrams herself has supported the defund the police movement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fox News described Abrams\u2019 consistent attempts to redefine what&nbsp;\u201cdefund\u201d meant in 2020, at&nbsp;the height of the Defund the Police movement, trying to make it sound as if the movement was transforming law enforcement into something else instead of completely dismantling police departments:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have to have a transformation of how we view the role of law enforcement, how we view the construct of public safety, and how we invest not only in the work that we need them to do to protect us but the work that we need to do to protect and build our communities,\u201d Abrams said in June 2020. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the conversation we\u2019re having: We\u2019ll use different language to describe it, but fundamentally we must have reformation and transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to reallocate resources, so, yes,\u201d she said in another interview that same month when asked if police budgets should be reduced. \u201cIf there is a moment where resources are so tight that we have to choose between whether we murder Black people or serve Black people, then absolutely: Our choice must be service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, she advocated for the \u201credistributive allocation of dollars\u201d from police budgets, so that \u201cwe are not simply investing in public safety, but we\u2019re building a safer public through education, through health care, through food security, through affordable housing, and that we not see these things as being in conflict, but they have to be part of a holistic vision of what America should look like, what law enforcement and what society should look like in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report also noted that the first&nbsp;executive director of Fair Fight Action,&nbsp;Cianti A. Stewart-Reid, posted a picture on social media with the&nbsp;acronym&nbsp;M4BL. The&nbsp;acronym stands for&nbsp;Movement for Black Lives, which is a group that has supported the Defund the Police movement and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/aoc-movement-black-lives-shakur-cop-killer\">praised<\/a> a convicted cop killer<\/p>\n<p>The social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=678626771593&amp;set=a.507465145863\">post<\/a> also said, \u201cIn Defense of Black Life #DefundPolice #DefendBlackLife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political action committee aligned with Georgia\u2019s gubernatorial candidate\u00a0Stacey Abrams spent more than\u00a0$1.2 million on private security in 2021 despite the founder\u2019s push to defund the police in the past, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}