{"id":1530929,"date":"2022-06-28T15:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530929"},"modified":"2022-06-28T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T19:05:24","slug":"over-100-georgia-sheriffs-condemn-democratic-gubernatorial-challenger-over-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-100-georgia-sheriffs-condemn-democratic-gubernatorial-challenger-over-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Georgia Sheriffs Condemn Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Over \u2018Defund the Police\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fover-100-georgia-sheriffs-condemn-democratic-gubernatorial-challenger-over-defund-the-police%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=1530929&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--><p>A total of 102 sheriffs in Georgia have joined Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican who is seeking a second term, in a statement condemning Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-stacey-abrams\">Stacey Abrams<\/a> over her support of \u201csoft-on-crime policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/briankemp2022.com\/2022\/06\/27\/over-100-georgia-sheriffs-condemn-stacey-abrams-support-of-defund-the-police-soft-on-crime-policies\/\">released<\/a> on June 27, also criticized Abrams for \u201cadvancing the Defund the Police movement\u201d with her position as a board member at the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a Seattle-based grant-making group, which the sheriffs called an \u201canti-police organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStacey Abrams has repeatedly shown complete disdain for law enforcement and the risk we take every day putting our lives on the line to serve our communities,\u201d the sheriffs wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Abrams actively serves on the governing board of\u2014and has profited from\u2014an anti-police organization which openly advocates for abolishing prisons and stripping local police departments of their funding,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia\u2019s governor race is a rematch between Kemp and Abrams. In 2018, Kemp <a href=\"https:\/\/results.enr.clarityelections.com\/GA\/91639\/Web02-state.221451\/#\/\">edged<\/a> Abrams by 54,723 votes with over 3.9 million voters casting a vote. This year, Kemp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/pence-backed-kemp-trounces-trump-endorsee-in-georgia-governors-race_4486743.html\">defeated<\/a> former Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/david-perdue-officially-launches-challenge-against-georgia-republican-gov-brian-kemp_4141042.html\">David Perdue<\/a> to win the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>So far it has been a tight race between the two candidates. <a href=\"https:\/\/surveyresearch-ecu.reportablenews.com\/pr\/georgia-senate-race-tied-kemp-leads-abrams-by-five\">According to<\/a> a recent poll from Easter Carolina University\u2019s Center for Survey Research, Kemp led Abrams 50 percent to 45 percent. The poll surveyed 868 registered voters in Georgia from June 6 to June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseygrants.org\/recent-news\/marguerite-casey-foundation-announces-addition-of-seven-new-board-members\">became<\/a> a board member of the foundation in May 2021. Less than a month later, she was one of the board members supporting the foundation\u2019s roll-out of an anti-police initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation\u2019s 2020 financial filing (<a href=\"https:\/\/assets.website-files.com\/60aaba5834a8eaec5594efb8\/626c856548299a2acc80229c_2020%20Form%20990-PF%20Public%20Disclosure40210.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), available on its website, shows that it has given grants to groups including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/the-defund-the-police-movement-has-a-broader-agenda-and-its-not-to-stop-the-killing-of-black-people-brandon-tatum_3864676.html\">Movement for Black Lives<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/bail-fund-under-blm-louisville-posts-bond-for-activist-charged-with-attempted-murder_4283271.html\">Louisville Community Bail Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation is vocal in its support for the #AbolishthePolice and #DefundthePolice movements, as evidenced by the frequent mention of the two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 102 sheriffs in Georgia have joined Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican who is seeking a second term, in a statement condemning Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams over her support of \u201csoft-on-crime policies.\u201d The statement, released on June 27, also criticized Abrams for \u201cadvancing the Defund the Police movement\u201d with her position as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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-1530929","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\/1530929","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530929\/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=1530929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}