{"id":1660419,"date":"2022-09-27T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660419"},"modified":"2022-09-27T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:21:37","slug":"anti-police-mandela-barnes-spent-more-than-half-a-million-taxpayer-dollars-for-personal-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-police-mandela-barnes-spent-more-than-half-a-million-taxpayer-dollars-for-personal-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Police Mandela Barnes Spent More Than Half A Million Taxpayer Dollars For Personal Security"},"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%2Fanti-police-mandela-barnes-spent-more-than-half-a-million-taxpayer-dollars-for-personal-security%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=1660419&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>Wisconsin\u2019s Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is running against incumbent GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in the U.S. Senate race this November, has quite a radical track record of opposing law enforcement. But in keeping with the Democrats\u2019 hierarchical protection-for-me-but-not-for-thee framework, Barnes has reportedly spent more than half a million in taxpayer dollars for personal security to keep himself safe, prompting Wisconsin Republican audit committee leaders to launch an investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Barnes has reportedly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/08\/30\/lt-gov-mandela-barnes-had-10-times-security-his-predecessor-wisconsin-rebecca-kleefisch\/7898454001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">averaged more than 13\u00bd hours of security protection a day<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including weekdays, weekends and holidays\u201d during his first three years as lieutenant governor, racking up a total cost of $608,528 for a total of 14,370 hours of security from January 2019 to November 20, 2021. As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel pointed out, at a cost of $660 a day for patrol officer wages, Barnes has used \u201cmore than 10 times the number of hours of security detail that [his predecessor Lt. Gov. Rebecca] Kleefisch received during her entire second term from 2015-\u201918. The total number of hours of protection that Kleefisch had over that four-year period was 1,377, an average of less than one hour per day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin state Sen. Robert Cowles, R-Green Bay, and Rep. John Macco, R-Ledgeview, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22925183-wsp-proctive-services-letter-september-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">requested<\/a> security cost figures for both Barnes and Democrat Gov. Tony Evers from State Patrol Superintendent Tim Carnahan. The state lawmakers have also asked for information about how the level of security provided by the Dignitary Protection Unit for events is determined and details about security processes for political and private events. Carnahan has until Oct. 6 to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson spokesman Alec Zimmerman said he hopes the investigation sheds light on the truth, adding, \u201cWisconsin taxpayers deserve answers as to why Lt. Gov. Barnes had the audacity to push the defund the police movement while at the same time using State Patrol as his personal Uber service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Barnes has recently tried his best to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/02\/15\/mandela-barnes-backs-away-two-unpopular-far-left-causes\/6785895001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">distance<\/a> himself from the extreme \u201cdefund the police\u201d position, his past tweets and endorsements suggest sympathy for the radicalism. For instance, Barnes has called Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat who pushed to dismantle the Minneapolis police department, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LGMandelaBarnes\/status\/1161625637049765888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1161625637049765888%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https:\/\/empowerwisconsin.org\/barnes-thinks-the-squads-omar-is-brilliant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brilliant<\/a>.\u201d His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2021\/center-for-popular-democracy-action-endorses-mandela-barnes-for-u-s-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speaking engagements<\/a> have included groups that back the anti-police movement \u2014 and have subsequently endorsed him. In fact, several national police-defunding groups have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/02\/15\/mandela-barnes-backs-away-two-unpopular-far-left-causes\/6785895001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Barnes. And his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/1281772919799128069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweets<\/a> indicate he supports the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement, or at least believes it to be reasonable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a 2020 PBS interview, Barnes reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/02\/15\/mandela-barnes-backs-away-two-unpopular-far-left-causes\/6785895001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested<\/a> taking money from police budgets and instead dumping it into vague community \u201cprogramming\u201d and \u201cneighborhood services.\u201d And last fall, he hosted a fundraiser in Wisconsin\u2019s capital city, which Federalist contributor M.D. Kittle <a href=\"https:\/\/empowerwisconsin.org\/barnes-big-birthday-fundraising-bash-with-madison-radicals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred<\/a> to as \u201cfeaturing some of the most radical leftists in Wisconsin\u201d and \u201ca who\u2019s who in the Madison defund-the-police movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate candidate was also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/democrat-running-to-unseat-ron-johnson-labeled-trump-a-russian-spy-called-to-free-palestine-in-extreme-tweets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photographed<\/a> holding up a T-shirt that said \u201cAbolish ICE,\u201d which is an anti-law enforcement effort that seeks to remove ICE and border security in the name of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t the extent of Barnes\u2019 law enforcement-related scandals, however. After the Barnes campaign released a list of the candidate\u2019s law enforcement endorsements, two officers\u2019 names were later removed, with both of them saying they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/21\/mandela-barnes-was-just-caught-with-another-fake-police-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never publicly endorsed him<\/a> in the first place. Zimmerman said these \u201crepeated lies are an attempt to distract from his support for defunding the police and abolishing ICE.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Considering all of the law enforcement-related controversies involving Barnes, one thing is clear: The Democrat at best thinks your police department should be stripped of some of its resources that help keep you safe \u2014 maybe more \u2014 but is happy to use your tax dollars for his own personal safety.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Sophia is an intern at The Federalist and a student at Le Moyne College.  She majors in English and intends to pursue a career in journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is running against incumbent GOP Sen. Ron Johnson in the U.S. Senate race this November, has quite a radical track record of opposing law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1289,"featured_media":1660421,"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-1660419","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\/1660419","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\/1289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}