{"id":1584189,"date":"2022-08-02T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1584189"},"modified":"2022-08-02T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:47:54","slug":"i-have-no-intention-of-stopping-belligerent-soros-says-he-will-continue-funding-leftist-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-have-no-intention-of-stopping-belligerent-soros-says-he-will-continue-funding-leftist-das\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Have No Intention Of Stopping\u2019: Belligerent Soros Says He Will Continue Funding Leftist DAs"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fi-have-no-intention-of-stopping-belligerent-soros-says-he-will-continue-funding-leftist-das%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=1584189&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>Seeing the backlash across the United States against woke city district attorneys, including the ouster of ultra-Left San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin in July, billionaire George Soros, indifferent to Americans\u2019 concerns, vowed to continue supporting them with his vast fortune.<\/p>\n<p>The Capital Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/living-room-pundits-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys\/\">reported<\/a> in January that since 2016, their researchers tracked over $29 million\u00a0in funding from Soros \u201cthrough a personal network of political action committees (PACs) formed specifically to back left-wing DA candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping,\u201d Soros acknowledged in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-i-support-reform-prosecutors-law-enforces-jail-prison-crime-rate-justice-police-funding-11659277441\">opinion piece<\/a> in The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Soros wrote \u201cOur system is rife with injustices that make us all less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I\u2019ve seen says otherwise,\u201d Soros insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here are some statistics compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/08\/other-woke-das-who-could-ousted-like-san-franciscos-chesa-boudin\/\">The New York Post<\/a> of some of the most famous leftist DAs \u2014 all Democrats\u2014 and the rise in crime in their jurisdictions:<\/p>\n<p>Recently-deposed Chesa Boudin of San Francisco: violent crimes: up 4%, year to date; property crimes: up 8.2%, year to date; total crime rate: up 7.8%, year to date.<\/p>\n<p>Alvin Bragg, Manhattan: major crime rate: up 43.2%, year to date.<\/p>\n<p>George Gasc\u00f3n, Los Angeles:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>violent crimes: up 7.7%, year to date; property crimes: up 13.3%, year to date; total crime rate: up 11.9%, year to date.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Foxx, Chicago: major crime rate: up 34%, year to date.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Krasner, Philadelphia: violent crimes: up 6.3%, year to date; property crimes: up 27.1%, year to date; total crime rate: up 22.2%, year to date.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hayden, Boston: violent crimes: up 4.4%, year to date; property crimes: up 4.8%, year to date; total crime rate: up 4.7%, year to date.<\/p>\n<p>The denial of how leftist policies have led to a rise in crime is not restricted to Soros; when Gasc\u00f3n, who faces a potential recall and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/01\/george-soros-vows-to-keep-backing-woke-das-despite-urban-crime-spikes\/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\">received<\/a>\u00a0nearly $3 million in campaign funds from Soros, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/l-a-county-da-gascon-responds-to-soft-on-crime-criticism\/\">asked<\/a>\u00a0by news anchors to critics calling him a \u201csoft-on-crime\u201d DA while his city has been blitzed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/six-cities-pace-pass-violent-crime-2022\">8.6% rise<\/a>\u00a0in violent crime over the past year, he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/george-gascon-claims-l-a-county-is-safer-in-some-areas-because-of-his-policies-despite-rise-in-violent-crime-over-past-year\/\">answered<\/a> that he believed Los Angeles was safer under his tenure, claiming, \u201cYeah, in some areas it is. \u2026 I know how to keep communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing the backlash across the United States against woke city district attorneys, including the ouster of ultra-Left San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin in July, billionaire George Soros, indifferent to Americans\u2019 concerns, vowed to continue supporting them with his vast fortune. 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