{"id":1627066,"date":"2022-08-30T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627066"},"modified":"2022-08-30T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T17:34:45","slug":"arizonas-kirsten-engel-signed-anti-cop-activists-slavery-reparations-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizonas-kirsten-engel-signed-anti-cop-activists-slavery-reparations-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona\u2019s Kirsten Engel Signed Anti-Cop Activist\u2019s Slavery Reparations Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Farizonas-kirsten-engel-signed-anti-cop-activists-slavery-reparations-pledge%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=1627066&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dem congressional hopeful&#8217;s radical positions could cost her in a tight race<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tKirsten Engel (Campaign Website)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 August 30, 2022 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Democratic Arizona House candidate Kirsten Engel signed an anti-cop activist\u2019s reparations pledge earlier this year, a position that could cost her moderate support she\u2019ll need to win her highly competitive race.<\/p>\n<p>Engel, a University of Arizona law professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EngelForArizona\/posts\/436226928325835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in June she was &#8220;proud&#8221; to sign the Reparations Pledge PAC pledge to support reparations if elected, and vowed to &#8220;fight for racial justice in all forms in Congress.&#8221; The PAC, which endorsed Engel, is led by an activist who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Redeemgrobinson\/posts\/10227965857838671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> defunding police departments a &#8220;moral thing to do.&#8221; Redeem Robinson, the PAC\u2019s founder, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Redeemgrobinson\/posts\/10228224567226244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">railed<\/a> against the &#8220;disgusting police system&#8221; that had declared &#8220;war&#8221; on minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Engel\u2019s support for reparations and links to left-wing activists could hurt her chances at capturing the open seat in Arizona\u2019s Sixth Congressional District, which Democrats consider a &#8220;must-win&#8221; for them to maintain control of the House. Americans strongly oppose reparations and defunding police, according to recent polls. Sixty-five percent of respondents to a <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/context\/april-18-21-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll\/72d8dab8-8a54-4468-a964-b7326876814d\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> last year said they oppose the federal government paying reparations, compared with just 28 percent who support doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Engel\u2019s campaign released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engelforarizona.com\/_files\/ugd\/ddc900_2c8105f728174bbcb3b931a04ec0596a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an internal poll<\/a> this month showing her leading 49-47 over Republican Juan Ciscomani, though election analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/house-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have given<\/a> Republicans a slight advantage in the district, which FiveThirtyEight estimates leans 7 points in favor of Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first example of Engel embracing unpopular left-wing causes. In 2020, she solicited donations for a Minnesota bail fund that freed a child molester and a man who later committed murder, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/arizona-dem-praised-radical-immigration-group-that-harassed-sinema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. She also encouraged donations to Showing Up For Racial Justice, a coalition of white civil rights activists that publishes a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/surj.org\/resources\/defund-the-police-toolkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defund the police toolkit<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The defund movement\u2019s popularity has waned in recent years amid a nationwide crime surge. Just 31 percent of Americans support reallocating money from police departments to social services agencies, down from 38 percent the year before, according to a University of Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/news\/article\/new-national-umass-amherst-poll-finds-decreasing-support-police-reform-black-lives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a> conducted in May. Seventy-five percent of respondents to a <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017e-dcb9-da25-ad7f-fdfd3f6f0000&amp;nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000014e-f115-dd93-ad7f-f91513e50001&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> in February said that defunding police departments was a reason that violent crime is increasing in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Reparations have been a fraught issue for Democrats. President Barack Obama rejected the idea during his 2008 campaign, though he has flip-flopped on the matter since leaving the White House. President Joe Biden supported a commission to study reparations during the 2020 presidential campaign but has not endorsed full reparation payments as president. Members of Congress, mostly from reliably safe Democratic districts, have introduced reparations bills over the years but none have been held for votes in either the House or the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Engel\u2019s campaign did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Dem congressional hopeful&#8217;s radical positions could cost her in a tight race  Kirsten Engel (Campaign Website)  Chuck Ross \u2022 August 30, 2022 1:30 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"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-1627066","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\/1627066","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627066\/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=1627066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}