{"id":1576146,"date":"2022-07-28T05:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T09:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576146"},"modified":"2022-07-28T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T09:04:45","slug":"stacey-abrams-cant-find-a-georgia-cop-who-supports-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-cant-find-a-georgia-cop-who-supports-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Can\u2019t Find a Georgia Cop Who Supports Her"},"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\">20<\/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-cant-find-a-georgia-cop-who-supports-her%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=1576146&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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is out with a new ad that uses a &#8220;former deputy sheriff&#8221; to argue that Abrams&#8217;s opponent is making the state &#8220;less safe.&#8221; There&#8217;s just one problem: That officer never served in Georgia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yVLAGhO-UQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">July 12 ad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> titled &#8220;Dangerous,&#8221; Abrams&#8217;s leadership PAC, One Georgia, employs a &#8220;former deputy sheriff&#8221;\u2014who is identified only as &#8220;Dennis&#8221;\u2014to claim that Republican governor Brian Kemp &#8220;may talk tough&#8221; but &#8220;makes us less safe.&#8221; But &#8220;Dennis&#8221; never patrolled the mean streets of Atlanta\u2014or any Georgia street, for that matter. &#8220;Dennis&#8221; is LGBT attorney and Democratic activist Dennis Collard, a Florida native who worked as a police officer in the Sunshine State from 1994-1999, his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dennis-collard-948a108\/details\/experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shows. Collard\u2014who, according to his LinkedIn, uses pronouns he\/him\u2014went on to join an Atlanta-based law firm in 2003, roughly 13 years before he founded his own divorce firm in Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is far from the first time Abrams has been forced to go out of state in search of political support. Just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/stacey-abrams-fundraising-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14 percent<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the $50 million she&#8217;s raised for her campaign against Kemp came from Georgia residents. Nearly half of that money, meanwhile, came from Washington, D.C., California, New York, and Delaware. Abrams in May called Georgia &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/stacey-abrams-wants-to-govern-the-worst-state-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the worst state in the country to live<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson County sheriff Janis Mangum, who is one of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/briankemp2022.com\/2021\/11\/09\/108-sheriffs-endorse-kemp-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more than 100 Georgia sheriffs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to endorse Kemp, said she was &#8220;not surprised at all&#8221; to hear that Abrams struggled to recruit a police officer who served in the Peach State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised by that at all when you&#8217;ve got someone who talks about defunding the police. Defunding the police would be the worst thing for anybody to do in our state\u2014it&#8217;s just absolutely ridiculous,&#8221; Mangum told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. &#8220;And for somebody to think like that, I don&#8217;t know that you&#8217;re going to have any law enforcement officers get behind you.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abrams, who did not return a request for comment, has faced criticism over her role as a board member of the Marguerite Casey Foundation, which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyGrants\/status\/1502072307384266753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1502072307384266753%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fstacey-abrams-governor-foundation-abolish-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">supports defunding police<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Shortly after Abrams <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/how-stacey-abrams-helped-funnel-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-to-an-israel-hating-terrorist-sympathizer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joined that board<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in May 2021, the foundation launched its &#8220;Answer the Uprising&#8221; initiative, which funds groups working to &#8220;transform, defund, [and] abolish police.&#8221; The foundation has, for example, funneled $200,000 to the Louisville Community Bail Fund, which later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/blm-linked-bail-fund-to-free-louisville-activist-who-shot-at-jewish-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paid $100,000<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to free an anti-police activist charged with the attempted murder of a Jewish mayoral candidate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abrams has attempted to distance herself from the foundation by claiming she does not agree with its position on defunding police. According to the foundation&#8217;s website, however, the group&#8217;s &#8220;Answer the Uprising&#8221; initiative was &#8220;fully supported by Marguerite Casey Foundation&#8217;s Board of Directors, which recently named seven new changemakers to the Board, including Stacey Abrams.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to her political career, Abrams authored eight romance novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery. CBS in 2019 reached an agreement to turn one of those novels, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never Tell<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, into a TV drama. The 2004 romantic fiction book is heavy on both sex and sexual misconduct, a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/we-read-stacey-abramss-romance-novel-turned-tv-show-so-you-dont-have-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analysis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abrams went on to serve as a state legislator and ran a failed campaign against Kemp in 2018. The Democrat lost by 2 points but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-fec-nominee-sued-georgia-over-stacey-abrams-election-loss-blamed-unreliable-voting-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">never conceded defeat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, instead calling the election &#8220;stolen&#8221; due to &#8220;voter suppression.&#8221; Collard also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectq.us\/gay-attorney-calls-out-brian-kemp-in-stacey-abrams-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">filmed an ad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Abrams four years ago, filed a campaign finance complaint against Kemp in 2019, and contributed $500 to Abrams&#8217;s campaign in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/stacey-abrams-cant-find-a-georgia-cop-who-supports-her\/\">Stacey Abrams Can\u2019t Find a Georgia Cop Who Supports Her<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is out with a new ad that uses a &#8220;former deputy sheriff&#8221; to argue that Abrams&#8217;s opponent is making the state &#8220;less safe.&#8221; There&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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-1576146","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\/1576146","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576146\/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=1576146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}