{"id":1539951,"date":"2022-07-05T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539951"},"modified":"2022-07-05T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T17:42:40","slug":"stacey-abrams-campaign-spent-450k-on-security-despite-backing-defund-police-movement-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-campaign-spent-450k-on-security-despite-backing-defund-police-movement-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams\u2019 Campaign Spent $450K On Security Despite Backing \u2018Defund Police\u2019 Movement: REPORT"},"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%2Fstacey-abrams-campaign-spent-450k-on-security-despite-backing-defund-police-movement-report%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=1539951&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><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stacey Abrams, the Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee, has reportedly spent thousands on private security even though she has ties to the Defund the Police movement.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abrams\u2019 campaign reportedly spent $450,000 on private security between December 2021 and April 2022, while she sits on the board of a foundation that has supported defunding and abolishing law enforcement.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cStacey Abrams wants to defund the police and open up the jails to let violent criminals roam free while you pay for her private security,\u201d Stephen Lawson, a Georgia Republican strategist, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cIf you could be arrested for hypocrisy, Stacey Abrams would be serving a life sentence.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has doled out hundreds of thousands on private security despite her ties to the Defund the Police movement, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams\u2019 campaign paid $450,000 to an Atlanta-based security firm <a href=\"https:\/\/epasecurity.com\/#:~:text=a%20step%20ahead!-,Executive%20Protection%20Agencies%2C%20LLC.,1%20million%20required%20state%20limits.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called<\/a> Executive Protection Agencies between December 2021 and April 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/abrams-campaign-spent-over-450k-private-security-radical-defund-police-group-ties\">Fox News<\/a> reported Tuesday. But Abrams also sits on the board of The Marguerite Casey Foundation \u2014 a nonprofit she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseygrants.org\/recent-news\/marguerite-casey-foundation-announces-addition-of-seven-new-board-members\">joined<\/a> in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyGrants\/status\/1519396630864138241\">that<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyGrants\/status\/1514282800182046723\">supported<\/a> abolishing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyGrants\/status\/1496188738082263042\">and<\/a> defunding police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefund the police,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crojasphd\/status\/1378160117007347717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1378160117007347717%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fstacey-abrams-donor-foundation-president-abolish-police-prisons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Carmen Rojas, president and CEO of The Marguerite Casey Foundation, in April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Marguerite Casey Foundation directed thousands in grants in 2020 to left-wing organizations that have sought to defund law enforcement, the group\u2019s 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.website-files.com\/60aaba5834a8eaec5594efb8\/626c856548299a2acc80229c_2020%20Form%20990-PF%20Public%20Disclosure40210.pdf\">tax<\/a> documents show. This includes $150,000 to <a href=\"https:\/\/defundpolice.org\/resources\/black-organizing-project\/\">the<\/a> Black Organizing Project, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandrising.org\/the-defund-oakland-police-coalition-celebrates-2nd-major-victory-of-the-week\/\">helped<\/a> lead an initiative in 2021 to dismantle the police department for the Oakland, California, school board.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2006\/15\/nday.04.html\">said<\/a> in June 2020 that \u201cwe have to reallocate resources\u201d when asked by CNN whether she supports defunding police. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/26\/lives-safety-of-child-martha-maccallum-presses-stacey-abrams-pro-abortion-stance\/\">(RELATED: \u2018What About The Lives And Safety Of The Child?\u2019: Martha MacCallum Presses Stacey Abrams On Her Pro-Abortion Stance)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to reallocate resources, so yes,\u201d she also said. \u201cIf there\u2019s a moment where the 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>Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who is running for reelection, released an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWyL0ABQ1Fg\">ad<\/a> in June criticizing Abrams for her past comments on defunding police. The ad also criticized Abrams\u2019 ties to The Marguerite Casey Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/atlanta\/2022\/06\/23\/exclusive-stacey-abrams-wants-fund-the-police\">told<\/a> Axios two weeks ago that she \u201cnever supported defunding the police\u201d and that Kemp is \u201ccherry-picking information.\u201d Abrams then <a href=\"https:\/\/fox40jackson.com\/headlines\/fox-news-sunday-on-june-26-2022\/\">told<\/a> Fox News her \u201cintent is to balance public safety and justice\u201d and argued for police officers to get paid more money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStacey Abrams wants to defund the police and open up the jails to let violent criminals roam free while you pay for her private security,\u201d Stephen Lawson, a Georgia Republican strategist, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cIf you could be arrested for hypocrisy, Stacey Abrams would be serving a life sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 Georgia sheriffs <a href=\"https:\/\/briankemp2022.com\/2022\/06\/27\/over-100-georgia-sheriffs-condemn-stacey-abrams-support-of-defund-the-police-soft-on-crime-policies\/\">condemned<\/a> Abrams in June for her \u201ccomplete disdain for law enforcement\u201d and \u201cties to an anti-police organization which openly advocates for abolishing prisons and stripping local police departments of their funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe Cop City story\u2026offers a window into how the actors that make up the PIC\u2014corporations, governments, media, police, and others\u2014work in deadly harmony to suppress political dissent, subvert democratic engagement, and protect profits.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AbolishthePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AbolishthePolice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jObxbG8TDb\">https:\/\/t.co\/jObxbG8TDb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marguerite Casey Foundation (@CaseyGrants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyGrants\/status\/1492170312984707075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyGrants\/status\/1492170312984707075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Marguerite Casey Foundation granted $250,000 in 2020 to the Movement for Black Lives \u2014 a <a href=\"https:\/\/m4bl.org\/\">coalition<\/a> of over 50 groups <a href=\"https:\/\/m4bl.org\/about-us\/\">that<\/a> believes \u201cprisons, police and all other institutions that inflict violence on Black people must be abolished and replaced by institutions that value and affirm the flourishing of Black lives.\u201d The foundation also unveiled a campaign in 2021 called \u201cAnswer the Uprising,\u201d which pledged over $1.6 million to \u201cfund programs and organizations that directly address racial injustice in policing and the justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTens of millions of everyday people took extraordinary risks to say what they wanted in the clearest terms possible \u2014 transform, defund, abolish,\u201d Marguerite Casey Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseygrants.org\/answer-the-uprising\">says<\/a> on its website. \u201cThey wanted an end to police violence and all forms of racist violence and injustice that are endemic within the criminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams\u2019 campaign did not respond to TheDCNF\u2019s request for comment. Executive Protection Agencies, The Marguerite Casey Foundation, Black Organizing Project and Movement for Black Lives did not either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStacey Abrams\u2019 jaw-dropping hypocrisy knows no limits,\u201d a spokesman for Kemp\u2019s campaign told TheDCNF. \u201cWhile she tries to run from her record of supporting \u2014 and profiting from \u2014 the Defund the Police movement, Governor Kemp will continue to stand with the men and women in law enforcement that keep our communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams, the Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee, has reportedly spent thousands on private security even though she has ties to the Defund the Police movement. 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