{"id":1980910,"date":"2023-07-23T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-defund-the-police-cori-bush-campaign-funds-husbands-private-security\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T22:58:11","slug":"pro-defund-the-police-cori-bush-campaign-funds-husbands-private-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-defund-the-police-cori-bush-campaign-funds-husbands-private-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Cori Bush&#8217;s campaign funds husband&#8217;s private security, supporting defunding 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\">22<\/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%2Fpro-defund-the-police-cori-bush-campaign-funds-husbands-private-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=1980910&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--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) speaks at \u200dthe \u201cJust Majority\u201d Supreme Court press conference on\u2064 June 22, 2023 \u200bin Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi\/Getty \u2063Images for Just Majority)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>3:47 PM \u2013 Sunday, July 23, 2023<\/h3>\n<p>Missouri \u200cDemocrat Representative Cori Bush\u2019s campaign\u200b paid tens of thousands of dollars to her husband, Cortney Merritts, for private security and other expenditures \u2063during the first half of 2023, according to campaign filings \u200bacquired by the press.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The representative\u2019s campaign, which missed the \u2064second quarter filing\u2063 deadline and now might face additional fines, finally turned in her committee report on Saturday, a \u200cweek late.\u2064 <\/p>\n<p>According to the latest filing, Merritts received $17,500 in security services and \u201cwage expenses\u201d between April and June.<\/p>\n<p>These payments\u200c are in\u2062 addition to\u200d the $12,500 she \u2063received\u200b for \u200cprivate protection\u2064 services during the first quarter, \u2064bringing \u200cthe\u2064 total for the year to \u200b$30,000.<\/p>\n<p>During this period, the \u201cSquad\u201d member sent $62,000\u2063 to the St. Louis-based PEACE Security, which employs many \u201csecurity operators\u201d with military or law \u200cenforcement expertise, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u200cfirst half \u2063of the year, the campaign also <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/disbursements\/?cycle=2022&#038;data_type=processed&#038;committee_id=C00638767&#038;recipient_name=davis&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2020&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2022&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2024&#038;line_number=F3-17\" target=\"_blank\">paid Nathaniel\u2064 Davis III<\/a> around $27,500 for security services. Davis is a former \u200bblack\u200b panther and controversial \u2062figure who claims to be \u201c109 trillion \u200byears old and can summon tornadoes.\u201d He is also \u2062known to express \u2062anti-Semitic sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>Bush \u2062is \u2062a member \u2062of\u2063 the Democratic Socialists \u200cof \u2064America and \u2062has stated numerous \u200dtimes that\u2062 extra protection \u200dis needed, claiming that she has had\u2063 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-defund-the-police-cori-bush-campaign-funds-husbands-private-security\/\" title=\"Cori Bush's campaign funds husband's private security, supporting defunding the police.\">endure prior assassination attempts<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Since 2019,\u2063 Bush\u2062 has spent over $500,000 \u200bon \u2063security fees in\u200b all, the majority\u2064 of which\u200d has gone to PEACE Security.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Bush\u200b and Merritts tied the knot in \u200cFebruary, her office \u2064claimed that they\u200b had been \u2063dating before she was even elected to Congress in 2021, which is\u200d more\u2062 than\u2064 a\u200b year before \u200bshe hired \u200chim to work\u200c on \u200dher campaign in January 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, her campaign also gave Merritts bi-monthly $2,500 checks \u200btotaling\u200d $60,000 while disbursing hundreds of thousands to the security \u200bbusiness.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he \u200ddid not have a private security license as of late February,\u200c according to \u2063Fox News. Permission is required to undertake security responsibilities in \u2062St.\u200c Louis and nearby St. Louis \u2064County,\u2062 which\u200c includes Bush\u2019s\u2064 entire congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>This is also not the\u2064 first\u200c time that Bush has been chastised by conservative networks for being \u200chypocritical\u2062 and utilizing private protection while expressing her discontent with law enforcement. <\/p>\n<p>In July \u20642021, Fox News reported\u200d on Bush\u2019s security payments while she was a vocal advocate of defunding the\u2063 police, prompting CBS News\u200b to \u200dinquire about the funds and\u2063 if it was ironic to employ a strong security detail\u2063 while \u2064pushing to eliminate\u2062 more police officials.<\/p>\n<p>Bush was also questioned in \u20642022 \u200cby then-CNN host Don Lemon if\u2062 she would ever retract her \u201cdefund \u2062the \u200bpolice\u201d stance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIf you \u2063could do it again, would you still double \u2064down or use that\u2064 slogan, \u2018defund\u2063 the police?&#8217;\u201d Lemon asked. \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d the Democrat responded. \u201c\u2026So suck\u2064 it up, \u200band defunding the police has to\u2064 happen,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush reportedly became a major advocate\u200d for defunding police departments following\u2062 the death of George \u200bFloyd in May\u200d 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re going to defund the police and refund our social services. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t like this idea? Well, we \u200cdon\u2019t \u200dlike dead Black \u200d&#038; Brown bodies &#038; broken families at the\u2062 hands of those sworn \u200dto protect us. <\/p>\n<p>The police have failed at \u200bfixing themselves\u2014so \u200cwe&#8217;re \u2063going to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cori \u2064Bush (@CoriBush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoriBush\/status\/1317979379042078720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stay informed! \u200cReceive breaking news blasts \u200bdirectly \u200cto your inbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>While other companies go woke, one \u2064company is giving back to our\u200c military veterans, just in time for summer. \u2064 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s \u2064lawyers file a complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene while \u200dwe say goodbye to Tony Bennett.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>One America\u2019s Bridget Bosco\u2063 spoke with Ben\u200c Pauling about the\u200b power of storytelling in\u2064 Sound of \u200dFreedom and his movie in the making, Dream, to show Americans the \u200chorror of child sex slavery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Comedian and Political Commentator, Bobby Sausalito, discusses the latest in culture \u2062news \u2013 including Anthony\u200b Weiner\u2019s live\u2064 meltdown, a golf protest and the continued Bud Light controversy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>BEIJING (Reuters) \u2013 Chinese chipmaker\u200c Hua Hong Semiconductor said on Sunday it aims to raise up \u2063to 21.2 billion yuan ($2.95 billion)in\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Norwegian robotics firm AutoStore will pay 200 million\u200c pounds ($257.1 million) to British online supermarket group Ocado as part of\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) -Audio-streaming platform Spotify Technology plans to raise the price of \u2062its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anthony-weiners-strange-reaction-during-a-recent-podcast\/\" title=\"Anthony Weiner's odd response on a recent podcast.\">ad-free premium monthly plan<\/a> by $1 in the United States,\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By Diane Bartz and Krystal Hu WASHINGTON\/NEW YORK (Reuters) -AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet \u200band\u200d Meta \u2064Platforms have \u2064made voluntary commitments\u200d to\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) addressed the &#8220;Just Majority&#8221; Supreme Court press conference in Washington, DC. 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