{"id":1709307,"date":"2022-10-24T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709307"},"modified":"2022-10-24T15:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:18:38","slug":"val-demings-says-its-harder-to-be-a-politician-than-a-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/val-demings-says-its-harder-to-be-a-politician-than-a-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Demings Says It\u2019s Harder To Be a Politician Than a Police Officer"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fval-demings-says-its-harder-to-be-a-politician-than-a-police-officer%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=1709307&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\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Florida Dem Senate nominee has centered her campaign on her ex-cop status<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 October 24, 2022 3:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much harder to be a politician than a police officer\u2014at least if you ask Florida&#8217;s Democratic Senate candidate Val Demings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, after 27 years as a law enforcement officer, there&#8217;s no doubt that&#8217;s a tough job, that&#8217;s a hard job, no doubt about it,&#8221; said Demings, a former Orlando police chief. &#8220;But being in elected office\u2014that&#8217;s a whole \u2018nother level, y&#8217;all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Demings&#8217;s remarks came at a rally Saturday in Pensacola and are likely to anger Florida&#8217;s law enforcement community, particularly given that Demings enjoys an array of perks as a congresswoman that she did not receive as a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Demings&#8217;s congressional salary, for example, sits at $174,000, allowing the Democrat to <a href=\"https:\/\/disclosures-clerk.house.gov\/public_disc\/financial-pdfs\/2021\/10047478.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own a Washington, D.C., condo<\/a> in addition to her Florida residence. Even after state cops in August received their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/news\/regional\/florida\/florida-state-law-enforcement-bonus-check-pay-raise\/67-4d27be1a-3eb3-4796-8663-7d521adc8349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first pay raise in years<\/a>, the average state-level officer in Florida earns just under $60,500 a year. Demings&#8217;s job as a congresswoman also took the Democrat and her husband to Israel for a policy seminar in 2017, a trip that <a href=\"https:\/\/disclosures-clerk.house.gov\/gtimages\/MT\/2017\/500017979.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost nearly $27,000<\/a>. And in 2021, zero members of Congress died in the line of duty, compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/nleomf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2021-EOY-Fatality-Report-Final-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52 Florida law enforcement officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For congresswoman Demings to say that sitting around in Washington and voting with [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi 100 percent of the time is a harder job than what we do every day is just despicable,&#8221; Marion County sheriff Billy Woods told the Washington Free Beacon. &#8220;It proves once and for all that she&#8217;s completely abandoned the law enforcement community and turned into a creature of the swamp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Demings, whose campaign did not return a request for comment, has worked to unseat Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio in large part by running on her background as a police chief. Demings in 2007 &#8220;made history when she was appointed to serve as [Orlando&#8217;s] first female Chief of Police,&#8221; her <a href=\"https:\/\/valdemings.com\/meet-val-demings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign site<\/a> states, and the Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-i-am-the-police-florida-sheriffs-say-thats-ridiculous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">often touts<\/a> that position to prove she&#8217;s a &#8220;no-nonsense, tough-on-crime leader who knows how to keep our communities safe.&#8221; In August, Demings went as far as to say she&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/val-demings-says-i-am-the-police-florida-sheriffs-say-thats-ridiculous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inherently immune<\/a> to criticism from Florida&#8217;s law enforcement community because she is &#8220;the police.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t just support the police. I am the police,&#8221; the Democrat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Democratic Senate nominee Val Demings, who has centered her campaign on her status as a former cop, said at a weekend campaign event that it&#8217;s harder to be a politician than a police officer.<br \/>\nThe post Val Demings Says It\u2019s Harder To Be a Politician Than a Police Officer appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1353251,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709307","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}