{"id":609548,"date":"2021-08-03T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609548"},"modified":"2021-08-03T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T16:36:24","slug":"va-sheriffs-pull-endorsement-of-democratic-ag-over-defund-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/va-sheriffs-pull-endorsement-of-democratic-ag-over-defund-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"VA Sheriffs Pull Endorsement of Democratic AG Over \u2018Defund\u2019 Movement"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fva-sheriffs-pull-endorsement-of-democratic-ag-over-defund-movement%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=609548&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 readability=\"29.767441860465\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;As the extreme wings of the party degraded us \u2026 Mark Herring did nothing&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-18-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-18.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-18-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pjimage-18-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSmyth County, Va., sheriff Chip Shuler and Dickenson County, Va., sheriff Jeremy Fleming \/ Facebook and Virginia Sheriffs&#8217; Association\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><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 August 3, 2021 12:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"96.629158180584\">\n<p>Virginia attorney general Mark Herring (D.) wrongly touted the endorsement of two local sheriffs who instead backed Herring&#8217;s GOP opponent, citing the Democratic Party&#8217;s push to defund police.<\/p>\n<p>Herring released an endorsement list Monday that included Smyth County sheriff Chip Shuler and Dickenson County sheriff Jeremy Fleming. In a Monday afternoon <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonMiyaresVA\/status\/1422313769330515969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, Shuler said Herring&#8217;s endorsement list &#8220;erroneously listed my name,&#8221; adding that Herring &#8220;should know because I left the Democrat Party in the same way they left law enforcement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am now a proud member of the Republican Party because I see that they are the party that stands with and supports law enforcement,&#8221; Shuler said. &#8220;Let me be clear\u2014in the race for Attorney General, not only will I be endorsing Republican Challenger Jason Miyares, but I will be casting my ballot for him in November.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Herring deleted the initial endorsement announcement, releasing an updated list Monday night that removed Shuler but included Fleming. The Dickenson County sheriff responded by issuing a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonmiyares.com\/post\/another-democrat-sheriff-flips-from-herring-to-miyares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> endorsing Miyares and accusing Herring of abandoning law enforcement &#8220;over the past eight years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the extreme wings of the party degraded us and called for us to be disbanded and defunded, Mark Herring did nothing\u2014he left us defenseless and unsupported,&#8221; Fleming said. &#8220;This is why despite my political affiliation with the Democrat Party, I am publicly endorsing Jason Miyares for Attorney General\u2014NOT Mark Herring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Shuler won reelection in 2019 as a Democrat, he left the party in May over &#8220;the relentless attack on law enforcement by Democrats in Richmond and Washington.&#8221; He is one of three Southwest Virginia sheriffs to ditch the Democratic Party for the GOP in the last year. Fleming, meanwhile, took over as sheriff just one year ago after running as a Democrat in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Miyares, who represents Virginia Beach in the state legislature, also has the backing of the Virginia Police Benevolent Association. Association president Joseph Woloszyn said the Republican &#8220;will put forward policies to stop the rise in crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A former state senator, Herring assumed the attorney general&#8217;s office in 2014. When a blackface photo from governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s medical school yearbook surfaced in 2019, Herring also admitted to wearing blackface as an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song,&#8221; Herring said of the incident. He called on Northam to resign in the wake of the scandal but has since returned to the governor&#8217;s good graces.<\/p>\n<p>Herring and Miyares will square off in November. Miyares outraised the Democrat in June, taking in $486,000 to Herring&#8217;s $462,000. Miyares entered July with a roughly $300,000 cash-on-hand advantage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections &#8216;As the extreme wings of the party degraded us \u2026 Mark Herring did nothing&#8217;  Smyth County, Va., sheriff Chip Shuler and Dickenson County, Va., sheriff &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609548","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}