{"id":1862628,"date":"2023-02-27T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862628"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:07:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T00:07:16","slug":"defund-the-police-advocate-cori-bush-marries-security-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defund-the-police-advocate-cori-bush-marries-security-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Defund The Police\u2019 Advocate Cori Bush Marries Security Guard"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdefund-the-police-advocate-cori-bush-marries-security-guard%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=1862628&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>Democrat Rep. Cori (MO), who is a top promoter of the far-left &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement in Congress, reportedly married a private security officer that her campaign hired.<\/p>\n<p>After signing a marriage certificate with Bush a few days earlier, Bush married Cortney Merritts in a private ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>NBC affiliate KSDK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/politics\/congresswoman-cori-bush-marries-campaign-security-guard-wedding\/63-7652bd27-3e9b-48e3-94ae-3971ae551749\">reported<\/a> Bush&#8217;s campaign paid Merritts $62,359 direct payments in 2022 to Merritts for security services and $23,359 for cash reimbursements.<\/p>\n<p>Merritts was paid after they entered into a relationship. The report noted that campaign expenses could have attracted the attention of the FEC or the Congressional Ethics Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Campaign funds are not to be used to enhance a Member&#8217;s lifestyle, or to pay a Member&#8217;s personal obligations,&#8221; House rules. &#8220;Members have wide discretion in determining what constitutes a bona fide campaign or political purpose to which campaign funds and resources may be devoted, but Members have no discretion whatsoever to convert campaign funds to personal use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush spokesperson released Monday&#8217;s statement confirming that Merritts had been married. &#8220;the love of [Bush&#8217;s] life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Merritts, a veteran of the U.S. Army and a security professional, has been Congresswoman Bush&#8217;s partner since before her Congressional tenure and is not employed by her Congressional office,&#8221; The statement has been added. &#8220;Our team has come to know and appreciate Mr. Merritts as a loving and caring Congressional spouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush is a staunch opponent to law enforcement. Bush has repeatedly called for the defunding of the police and has doubled-down when confronted with left-wing media groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you could do it again, would you still double down or use that slogan, \u2018defund the police?'&#8221; CNN host Don Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/democrat-cori-bush-doubles-down-defunding-police-cnn-absolutely-still-supports\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/a> In October 2022. &#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Bush responded.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-cori-bush-reignites-calls-for-defunding-the-police-amid-violent-crime-surge\">Similar comments<\/a> In an interview with ABC News, she was asked about her rhetoric and whether it could cause harm to vulnerable Democrats in districts that are competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing about \u2018defund the police&#8217; is we have to tell the entire narrative,&#8221; Bush replied. &#8220;People hear \u2018defund the police,&#8217; but you know what they&#8217;ll say, say \u2018reallocate,&#8217; say \u2018divest,&#8217; say \u2018move,&#8217; but it&#8217;s still the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t get caught up on the words,&#8221; Bush continued. &#8220;People spend more time focusing on the word \u2018defund&#8217; than they spend on caring and addressing the problem of police violence in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Rep. Cori Bush (MO), who is one of the top promoters of the far-left \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement in Congress, has reportedly married a private security guard that her campaign hired. Bush was married at a private ceremony last weekend to Cortney Merritts after signing a marriage license with him a few days prior. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1862631,"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":[541],"tags":[11898,4589,5464,13816,4570,19825,3967,3646],"class_list":["post-1862628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-advocate","tag-bush","tag-cori","tag-defund","tag-guard","tag-marries","tag-police","tag-security"],"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\/1862628","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}