{"id":1590983,"date":"2022-08-05T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590983"},"modified":"2022-08-05T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:10:28","slug":"wisconsin-dem-spent-massive-sum-in-tax-dollars-on-security-despite-hammering-police-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-spent-massive-sum-in-tax-dollars-on-security-despite-hammering-police-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Dem Spent Massive Sum In Tax Dollars On Security Despite Hammering Police: 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\">28<\/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%2Fwisconsin-dem-spent-massive-sum-in-tax-dollars-on-security-despite-hammering-police-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=1590983&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1228099858-scaled-e1659705214641.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic lieutenant governor, who is also running for U.S. Senate, spent hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars for a police security detail despite criticizing law enforcement in the past, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela Barnes, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3582917-barnes-raises-1-1m-in-wisconsin-senate-primary-as-other-democrats-drop-out\/\">who<\/a> is viewed as a heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marquette.edu\/news-center\/2022\/new-marquette-law-poll-survey-finds-lose-races-in-senate-and-governor-primaries.php\">favorite<\/a> to win his Senate primary, shelled out more than $587,000 for a state police detail between Jan. 7, 2019 and Nov. 6, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/wisconsin-dem-senate-candidate-spent-nearly-600k-police-detail-cozying-defund-police-movement\">according<\/a> to records obtained by Fox News. The sum paid for roughly 8,800 hours of police protection, 4,900 hours for overtime protection and over 200 hours of holiday protection, the outlet reported. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/03\/mandela-barnes-dark-money-democrats-pac\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Left-Wing Dark Money Groups Boost Dem Candidate Who Pledged To Fight Dark Money, Records Show)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Barnes has a history of slamming law enforcement and previously aligned himself with the Defund the Police movement, according to Fox News. The lieutenant governor notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R32Myon3GV4\">said<\/a> in a 2021 interview that the U.S. is \u201cbuilt on racism\u201d and lamented the \u201cover-policing\u201d of \u201ccommunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barnes tweeted to an activist in 2018, \u201cDon\u2019t know how I missed that reply, but I need that,\u201d after being offered a Democratic Socialists of America shirt saying \u201cAbolish ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement],\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/02\/15\/mandela-barnes-backs-away-two-unpopular-far-left-causes\/6785895001\/\">the<\/a> Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the Democratic Socialists of America posted a picture on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/demsocialists\/comments\/9v4iel\/apparently_the_newly_elected_lieutenant_governor\/\">Reddit<\/a> with Barnes holding the shirt, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMandela Barnes\u2019 hypocrisy is startling,\u201d Republican Wisconsin state Sen. Julian Bradley, who sits on the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes notably spent nine times more on security in his first two months as lieutenant governor than his Republican predecessor Rebecca Kleefisch had for the entirety of 2018, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2a8e4fcd97a247de8a501d195e21c5a8\">reported<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRacking up as many hours of security protection in a week as his predecessor did in a year while advocating to abolish the police shows a tremendous disconnect between Barnes and the people of Wisconsin,\u201d Bradley told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can feel how you want about to calls to reform, defund, or abolish but the question is, how can a system that allows this to happen continue to be upheld?\u201d Barnes also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/1308941162603065346\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter in September 2020, linking to a CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/23\/us\/breonna-taylor-attorney-general-grand-jury-announcement\/index.html\">article<\/a> on the death of Breonna Taylor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can feel how you want about to calls to reform, defund, or abolish but the question is, how can a system that allows this to happen continue to be upheld? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wo7lNmIULH\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wo7lNmIULH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mandela Barnes (@TheOtherMandela) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/1308941162603065346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2020<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Barnes\u2019 campaign said\u00a0in July the candidate \u201cdoes not support defunding the police,\u201d two of his biggest donors have bankrolled the left-wing movement, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/this-wisconsin-dem-wants-to-distance-himself-from-defund-the-police-two-of-his-biggest-donors-bankrolled-campaign-to-remove-law-enforcement-from-schools\/\">the<\/a> Washington Free Beacon reported. Barnes also accepted $28,000 from a political action committee (PAC) that\u2019s board includes Defund the Police activists, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/wisconsin-dem-takes-far-left-groups-money-but-claims-he-doesnt-support-their-policies\/\">the<\/a> Free Beacon reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Senate primary is on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The lieutenant governor\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment, nor did Barnes\u2019 campaign.<\/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>Wisconsin\u2019s Democratic lieutenant governor, who is also running for U.S. Senate, spent hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars for a police security detail despite criticizing law enforcement in the past,<\/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-1590983","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\/1590983","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=1590983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590983\/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=1590983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}