{"id":1685672,"date":"2022-10-12T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1685672"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:49:54","slug":"stark-differences-over-crime-define-key-congressional-race-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stark-differences-over-crime-define-key-congressional-race-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Stark Differences Over Crime Define Key Congressional Race in Michigan"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fstark-differences-over-crime-define-key-congressional-race-in-michigan%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=1685672&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>Crime may prove to be the deciding factor in the race to fill the open congressional seat in western Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been four recent shootings in Grand Rapids. People don\u2019t feel safe,\u201d said Republican nominee John Gibbs in an Oct. 7, 2022, sit-down interview with The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the explosion of violence across America is a result of the Democrat policies of defunding the police and cashless bail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs alleges his Democrat opponent, Hillary Scholten, is \u201csoft on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-crime\">crime<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a written statement to The Epoch Times, Gibbs\u2019s campaign alleged that Scholten gave hundreds of dollars to the Progressive Women\u2019s Alliance of West Michigan and to Equity PAC, both of which \u201csupport defunding the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs also alleged in the statement that Scholten removed from her 2022 campaign website the criminal justice reform section that showed her support for bail reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScholten\u2019s views do not match up with the views of the people of this district. She\u2019s out of step,\u201d said Gibbs in the interview.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/11\/Congressional-candidate-John-Gibbs-1200x875.jpg\"><\/a> GOP congressional candidate John Gibbs in his Grand Rapids, Michigan headquarters, on Oct. 7, 2022. (Steven Kovac\/The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>Scholten did not respond to a request for an interview by The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign website accuses Republicans of mounting \u201can assault on our democracy\u201d and of engaging in \u201cvoter suppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to her website, Scholten favors expanding mail-in and early voting nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Though Scholten is strongly pro-abortion, her campaign website touts her commitment and service to the Christian Reformed Church she attends.<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, the Christian Reformed Church is officially pro-life and calls on all of its members to \u201cspeak out against the atrocity of abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of education, Scholten supports expanded vocational training and apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>She acknowledged on her website that two years of the COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime may prove to be the deciding factor in the race to fill the open congressional seat in western Michigan. \u201cThere have been four recent shootings in Grand Rapids. People don\u2019t feel safe,\u201d said Republican nominee John Gibbs in an Oct. 7, 2022, sit-down interview with The Epoch Times. \u201cI believe the explosion of violence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"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-1685672","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\/1685672","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\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685672\/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=1685672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}