{"id":2000943,"date":"2023-08-15T06:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-freedom-fund-releases-ad-attacking-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-for-signing-death-warrant\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:35:18","slug":"school-freedom-fund-releases-ad-attacking-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-for-signing-death-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-freedom-fund-releases-ad-attacking-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-for-signing-death-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"School Freedom Fund attacks Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for signing &#8216;death warrant&#8217; in new ad."},"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%2Fschool-freedom-fund-releases-ad-attacking-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-for-signing-death-warrant%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=2000943&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--><h2>EXCLUSIVE: School Freedom Fund Targets\u200c Gov. Andy\u200b Beshear for Crime Policies<\/h2>\n<p>The School\u2062 Freedom Fund, in collaboration with Club for Growth Action, is taking aim at Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) and his \u2064crime policies, a concern \u2064shared by\u2064 Republicans across the country as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-republicans-call-on-sheila-jackson-lee-to-hold-hearing-over-democrats-pushes-to-defund-police\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Call On Sheila Jackson Lee To Hold Hearing Over Democrats\u2019 Pushes To Defund Police\">crime rates continue<\/a> to rise in Democratic-controlled\u2064 cities and states.<\/p>\n<p>The organization has launched a $2.9 million TV ad campaign in the Louisville and Lexington markets, which began airing\u200d on Aug. 1. Their second 30-second\u2063 advertisement, \u2063titled &#8220;Signature,&#8221; will be released on Tuesday. The objective\u200c of these\u2062 ads \u2062is to highlight\u2064 Beshear&#8217;s release of criminals during the COVID-19 pandemic as he seeks reelection in 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Up for Debate: Where Trump,\u2062 DeSantis, and the Rest of the Republican 2024 Field Stand on Key Issues<\/h3>\n<p>The &#8220;Signature&#8221; ad, exclusively shared with the Washington Examiner, focuses on the \u2063case of Ashley Lewis. Beshear \u2064commuted her sentence in August 2020, and just four months\u2064 later, she was arrested for her involvement in a fatal \u200cshooting. The ad\u2063 emphasizes\u200c the \u200bpotential consequences of Beshear&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Convicted \u200dfelon Ashley Lewis\u2062 should have been in jail that \u200dday. Jeremy Caldwell, a young father, should have been safe as he sat in his car,&#8221; the ad states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u2062August 2020,\u200d Beshear signed an executive order commuting the \u2063sentences of\u2064 Lewis and \u2064645 other\u200b inmates who were either vulnerable to \u200bCOVID-19 \u200cor serving nonviolent sentences with less than six\u2062 months remaining.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;When a governor&#8217;s signature becomes a death warrant for innocent Kentuckians,\u200d take \u200daway his pen,&#8221; the ad declares.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>David McIntosh, president of the\u200b School Freedom Fund, expressed his disappointment in Beshear&#8217;s actions, stating that \u200bhe &#8220;wrongly betrayed&#8221; Kentucky victims and\u2062 residents by releasing criminals early. McIntosh criticized Beshear for prioritizing the interests of &#8220;radical, pro-criminal, anti-family \u200bgroups&#8221; instead of\u200c focusing on the concerns of his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second \u2062ad released by the School \u200cFreedom Fund. The first ad, titled &#8220;Means and\u2063 Motives,&#8221; highlighted Beshear&#8217;s commutations and claimed that one-third of \u200dthose released had committed new felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Beshear&#8217;s opponent in the gubernatorial race is Daniel Cameron, Kentucky&#8217;s \u200battorney general and the Republican \u200dnominee. Cameron has garnered support from prominent\u200d Kentucky Republicans, including Senate \u200dMinority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President\u2063 Donald \u200dTrump. He has made Beshear&#8217;s crime policies a central point of his campaign, criticizing the\u2063 governor&#8217;s approach to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-jesse-jackson-remade-the-democratic-party\/\" title=\"Jesse Jackson's Democratic Party Transformation\">criminal justice \u2063reform<\/a>\u2063 during the pandemic\u200d and positioning himself as a strong advocate for\u2064 law \u2063enforcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;While he was locking down our schools, he\u200b was unlocking our jails,&#8221; Cameron stated in \u200bJuly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-freedom-fund-releases-ad-attacking-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-for-signing-death-warrant\/\" title=\"School Freedom Fund attacks Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for signing 'death warrant' in new ad.\">addressing law enforcement officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July, Cameron unveiled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-governor-signs-4-gun-control-bills-into-law\/\" title=\"Colorado Governor Signs 4 Gun Control Bills Into Law\">comprehensive public safety plan<\/a> that includes measures such as recruitment and retention\u200b bonuses for \u2062police officers and the implementation\u2064 of the death\u2063 penalty for those convicted of killing a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Recent polls have shown Beshear leading Cameron since May, with a Public Policy Polling survey conducted between Aug. 9 and 10\u200c indicating Beshear with 49% of the vote compared to Cameron&#8217;s 41%. The\u2062 general election is scheduled for Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out to both Beshear and Cameron for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: School Freedom Fund targets Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) over crime policies. Republicans nationwide concerned about rising crime rates in Democratic-controlled areas. Allied with Club for Growth Action, the organization plans to launch a $2.9 million TV campaign with a 30-second ad on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2000943","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=2000943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}