{"id":1697811,"date":"2022-10-17T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697811"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:07:23","slug":"cori-bush-spent-500k-in-campaign-cash-on-private-security-while-pushing-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cori-bush-spent-500k-in-campaign-cash-on-private-security-while-pushing-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Cori Bush Spent $500k in Campaign Cash on Private Security While Pushing Defund the Police"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fcori-bush-spent-500k-in-campaign-cash-on-private-security-while-pushing-defund-the-police%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=1697811&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-->\n<p>A Democratic member of Congress who still <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/05\/cori-bush-will-pay-200k-for-private-security-but-still-wants-to-defund-police\/\">supports the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement<\/a> has spent nearly $500,000 in campaign funds on private security, according to a report Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Election Commission records show that US Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a former Black Lives Matter activist, shelled out more than $100,000 for \u201csecurity services\u201d during the third quarter of 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/cori-bush-nears-500000-campaign-cash-private-security-despite-repeated-calls-defund-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spending pushed Bush\u2019s campaign outlays on private security during the 2020-22 election cycle to more than $490,000, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The security payments were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/squad-cori-bush-defund-police-advocate-private-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first reported in July 2021<\/a> by Fox News Digital, and during an interview with CBS News that August, Bush \u2014 a member of the progressive group of progressive Democratic house members known as \u201cThe Squad\u201d \u2014 vehemently defended the spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if I end up spending 200,000, if I spend\u2026 10 more dollars on it, you know what? I get to be here to do the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bush added: \u201cSo, suck it up, and defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets because we\u2019re trying to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was later revealed that two St. Louis sheriff\u2019s deputies who moonlighted as bodyguards for Bush had been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/08\/13\/st-louis-cops-fired-for-guarding-anti-police-rep-cori-bush\/\">fired for failing to get permission to take the jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bush \u2014 one of the few Democrats who still publicly support the \u201cDefund\u201d movement \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1577306867868602368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doubled down<\/a> on her stance during an appearance on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America\u201d earlier this month, when she was asked if it could hurt her party in the\u00a0Nov. 8\u00a0midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t get caught up on the words,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople spend more time focusing on the word \u2018defund\u2019 than they spend on caring and addressing the problem of police violence in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/cori-bush-getty-03-1.jpg\"><\/a>Bush paid over $100,000 for \u201csecurity services\u201d in the third quarter of 2022, according to the Federal Election Commission.Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDefund\u201d movement gained steam following the infamous 2020 police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/10\/biden-says-defund-the-police-movement-beat-the-hell-out-of-dems\/\">then-President-elect Joe Biden later blamed it<\/a> for helping Republican critics \u201cbeat the living hell\u201d out of Democrats that fall.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/01\/biden-praises-nypd-slain-cops-mora-and-rivera-in-sotu\/\">got a standing ovation<\/a> from both sides of the aisle during his first State of the Union speech when he said, \u201cWe should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police, the answer is to fund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic member of Congress who still supports the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement has spent nearly $500,000 in campaign funds on private security, according to a report Sunday. Federal Election Commission records show that US Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a former Black Lives Matter activist, shelled out more than $100,000 for \u201csecurity services\u201d during the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697811","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}