{"id":1651431,"date":"2022-09-21T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1651431"},"modified":"2022-09-21T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T17:22:31","slug":"john-fetterman-says-he-wont-defund-the-police-his-latest-campaign-partner-says-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-fetterman-says-he-wont-defund-the-police-his-latest-campaign-partner-says-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fetterman Says He Won\u2019t Defund The Police. His Latest Campaign Partner Says Otherwise."},"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\">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%2Fjohn-fetterman-says-he-wont-defund-the-police-his-latest-campaign-partner-says-otherwise%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=1651431&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Brand New Congress was formed by Bernie Sanders staffers to elect progressives<\/p>\n<p>   @BrandNew535 Twitter   <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 September 21, 2022 1:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Senate hopeful John Fetterman says he opposes efforts to defund police departments. That could put him at odds with his latest campaign partner, a left-wing political action committee that has called critics of the radical cause &#8220;squeamish centrists&#8221; and &#8220;appeasers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brand New Congress, founded by organizers for Bernie Sanders&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign, on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandNew535\/status\/1572224192610713600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Fetterman as a &#8220;bold, progressive voice&#8221; who if elected will bring &#8220;transformational change&#8221; to the Senate. The organization also announced <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/c2g_bnc_john_fetterman_tandem?refcode=tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a joint fundraising initiative<\/a> with Fetterman that will split contributions between the PAC and Fetterman&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Brand New Congress has repeatedly called to defund law enforcement and <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalemails.org\/messages\/312213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it supports progressives who are &#8220;unapologetic&#8221; in supporting that and other &#8220;revolutionary change.&#8221; The group has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandNew535\/status\/1269018313230819329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urged<\/a> lawmakers to sign Rep. Cori Bush&#8217;s (D., Mo.) pledge to defund police and has accused former president Barack Obama of &#8220;appeasement&#8221; for criticizing the movement&#8217;s slogan.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman&#8217;s support for Brand New Congress could undermine his bid to flip a Republican seat in a purple state. Americans have soured on the defund movement in recent years, with 75 percent of voters in <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\">a recent poll<\/a> saying the movement is responsible for a spike in violent crime. Republicans have attacked Fetterman over his support for progressive criminal justice reform measures. Republican candidate Mehmet Oz has run ads highlighting Fetterman&#8217;s votes as head of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Board of Pardons to release convicted murderers from prison. A group of Pennsylvania sheriffs criticized Fetterman&#8217;s calls to release one-third of all state prisoners and his support for left-wing Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman defended his record in a series of television ads, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9FBX8S3uHrI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a> in which he claimed he &#8220;did whatever it took to fund police&#8221; as mayor of Braddock, Pa. Fetterman&#8217;s campaign spokesman recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/fetterman-crime-attacks-from-oz-gop-20220915.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the candidate will &#8220;never support defunding the police&#8221; if elected.<\/p>\n<p>But Fetterman&#8217;s collaboration with Brand New Congress is part of a pattern of working closely with proponents of the defund movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate hopeful John Fetterman says he opposes efforts to defund police departments. That could put him at odds with his latest campaign partner, a left-wing political action committee that has called critics of the radical cause &#8220;squeamish centrists&#8221; and &#8220;appeasers.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post John Fetterman Says He Won\u2019t Defund The Police. His Latest Campaign Partner Says Otherwise. appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1891479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/john-fetterman-says-he-wont-defund-the-police-his-latest-campaign-partner-says-otherwise\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651431","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=1651431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}