{"id":1439277,"date":"2022-04-15T00:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1439277"},"modified":"2022-04-15T00:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:15:31","slug":"squad-hopeful-greg-casar-likened-defund-the-police-activists-to-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/squad-hopeful-greg-casar-likened-defund-the-police-activists-to-mlk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Squad\u2019 Hopeful Greg Casar Likened \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 Activists to MLK"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsquad-hopeful-greg-casar-likened-defund-the-police-activists-to-mlk%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=1439277&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Texas-Candidate-Greg-Casar.-Casar-for-Congress-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Greg Casar, a Democrat candidate for U.S. Congress and hopeful member of \u201cthe Squad,\u201d compared defund the police protesters to civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Casar, a member of the Democrat Socialists of America, spoke about his efforts to cut funding for police departments during his time spent on the Austin City Council. He likened defund the police activists to MLK because both were unpopular.<\/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>\u201cMLK was not popular when he did his activist work. And his goal was not to get more Democrats elected. His goal was to transform American society, both short term and long term,\u201d Casar\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XPOltcNjK3Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, speaking with the <em>Texas Tribune<\/em> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XPOltcNjK3Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Same thing\u2014really important for the biggest protest movement, probably in American history, or at least the biggest one in my lifetime since the civil rights movement, to stand up and say, \u201cWe need change to have a more just society,\u201d especially for black folks and folks of color. It\u2019s not their job in the streets to come up with exactly the right slogans to help us get elected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During his sit-down, Casar also attacked Title 42, the Trump-era immigration law that makes it easier for the federal government to deport illegal aliens and border crossers. President Joe Biden recently announced the end of Title 42, effective in May.<\/p>\n<p>According to Casar, Title 42 is a \u201csham rule\u201d that is \u201cbased on a lie.\u201d \u201cTitle 42 was meant to keep people out based on a lie that it had to do with COVID,\u201d Casar\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yf91Bz_Jq5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0the Texas Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Casar is running in Texas\u2019s deep-blue 35th congressional district to fill the seat left vacant by Democrat Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), who decided to run in Texas\u2019s newly drawn 37th district.<\/p>\n<p>Casar will likely become the next member of the progressive House Democrats\u2019 purported \u201cSquad,\u201d led by far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Casar earned\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-endorses-Greg-Casar-16821738.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsements<\/a>\u00a0from Squad members, Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Ayanna Presley (D-MA), and Ocasio-Cortez ahead of his Democrat primary victory in March.<\/p>\n<p>Casar will face Republican candidates Dan McQueen or Michael Rodriguez in the midterm elections after their primary runoff showdown in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Casar, a Democrat candidate for U.S. Congress and hopeful member of \u201cthe Squad,\u201d compared defund the police protesters to civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Casar, a member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439277","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\/1439277","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439277\/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=1439277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}