{"id":1587090,"date":"2022-08-03T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1587090"},"modified":"2022-08-03T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:41:12","slug":"marz-was-just-a-part-of-that-shaun-king-defends-spending-thousands-for-show-dog-through-pac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marz-was-just-a-part-of-that-shaun-king-defends-spending-thousands-for-show-dog-through-pac\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Marz Was Just A Part Of That\u2019: Shaun King Defends Spending Thousands For Show Dog Through PAC"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fmarz-was-just-a-part-of-that-shaun-king-defends-spending-thousands-for-show-dog-through-pac%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=1587090&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>Left-wing activist Shaun King is defending himself after his political action committee (PAC) paid for him to obtain a mastiff show dog allegedly for security purposes, claiming it was to stave off \u201cWhite supremacists\u201d who target his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say some things that I\u2019ve worked hard to keep private for the safety and security of my family,\u201d King <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cgwuyjdrwrh\/?hl=en\">wrote<\/a> on Instagram Tuesday. \u201cBut I need you to know this so that you understand why our family not only needs a guard dog at home, but 24\/7 security wherever we go.\u2063 White supremacists and people who\u2019ve meant my family harm have now shown up to our last three homes. Multiple times.\u2063\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/01\/activist-dog-pac-breeder-shaun-king\/\">(RELATED: Shaun King Welcomed New Show Dog After His PAC Gave Thousands To Breeder: REPORT)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A PAC co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/pac.grassrootslaw.org\/\">by<\/a> King called Grassroots Law, which supports political candidates who \u201cfight to end oppressive policing, incarceration and injustice,\u201d donated roughly $31,000 in February to a dog breeder called Potrero Performance Dogs, Federal Election Commission (FEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/01\/activist-dog-pac-breeder-shaun-king\/\">records show.<\/a> The California breeder was paid for \u201ccontractor services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[O]ur organization pays for all security fees related to our staff,\u201d King told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cMarz was just a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days after the February payment, however, King posted on Facebook about welcoming a \u201cnew member of the King family,\u201d referring to a mastiff show dog bred by Potrero, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.<\/p>\n<p>King does not still own the show dog, the Free Beacon reported, given that Potrero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cfu4DWQpkzG\/\">said<\/a> in a since-deleted Instagram post in July that the show dog \u201cgot a little too much energy to be a family dog so he came back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King confirmed to the DCNF that Marz is no longer in the possession of his family.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7492400\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7492400\" class=\"wp-image-7492400 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-180x120.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-620x413-1.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-768x512-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-1536x1024-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-649857606-1-2048x1365-1.jpeg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7492400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEATTLE, WA \u2013 MARCH 08: Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter leader and writer for the New York Daily News, speaks a rally at Westlake Center on March 8, 2017 in Seattle, Washington. The rally was co-hosted by Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and Socialist Students USA in honor of International Women\u2019s Day, to stand up for reproductive rights and economic equality for women. (Photo by Karen Ducey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grassroots Law PAC has given roughly $40,000 total to Potrero, filings show. Still, the group has only spent slightly more, $55,900, on political contributions since 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00712109&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2022&#038;min_date=01%2F01%2F2021&#038;max_date=12%2F31%2F2022&#038;disbursement_description=non-federal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filings<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese financial irregularities are disturbing and ought to cause donors to think twice before supporting this group in the future,\u201d Hayden Ludwig, a senior investigative researcher at the right-wing think tank Capital Research Center, previously told the DCNF about the show dog payments.<\/p>\n<p>King has been slammed for his prior dealings, such as in 2019, when he was <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@deray\/on-shaun-king-351bd812318c\">accused<\/a> by a man who sat on the board of another PAC he founded of concealing group finances and lying about the organization. In 2021, the mother of a 12-year-old black boy who was killed by law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/29\/mothers-criticize-blm-activists-for-profiting-off-their-dead-sons\/\">called<\/a> him out for fundraising off her son\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo know this, when you see reports about the money it costs to keep me and my family safe, it\u2019s nowhere near enough,\u201d King also said in his post. \u201cNot at all. Not even close.\u2063\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grassroots Law PAC did not respond to a request for comment.<\/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>Left-wing activist Shaun King is defending himself after his political action committee (PAC) paid for him to obtain a mastiff show dog allegedly for security purposes, claiming it was to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"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-1587090","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\/1587090","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587090\/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=1587090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}