Leftist Democrat Cori Bush evidently intends to continue to spend big bucks on her own private security while still advocating for defunding the police, and she appears not to be dissuaded by the rank hypocrisy of it all.
“I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life. And I have too much work to do; there are too many people that need help right now for me to allow that,” U.S. Rep. Bush (D-Mo.) told CBS News, apparently without evidence.
“So if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend ten more dollars on it, you know what, I get to be here to do the work, so suck it up. And defunding the police has to happen.
“We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets,” Rep. Bush added.
Rep. @CoriBush: “I’m going to make sure I have security" [but] "defunding the police has to happen.” pic.twitter.com/6m8gQG2Q0p
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) August 5, 2021
Squad member Bush reportedly spent about $70,000 in campaign funds on private security during the last three months or so while still calling for the downsizing of law enforcement budges, according to her campaign filing documents.
A fascinating (or other adjectives that may apply) phenomenon is in play on the left. Those who have benefitted and prospered the most from what the U.S. Constitution describes as “domestic tranquility” often want to take that away from ordinary, everyday Americans in crime-ridden St. Louis, Bush’s home base, or elsewhere, who can’t afford bodyguards.
Violent crime is surging across the country in cities run by Democrats where police defunding has been proposed or implemented. This recently prompted Trey Gowdy to appear to call out Bush (although not mentioning her by name), along with other Democrats for being “literally, dead wrong” about police defunding, a premise which puts her own constituents’ lives at risk.
Trey Gowdy: Democrats will never apologize for life-costing mistake of defunding police https://t.co/tMrbHHSPdI via @BIZPACReview
— Jack Furnari (@JackBPR) July 12, 2021
This week, Bush also seemed to make a veiled threat against Mark McCloskey after Missouri’s GOP Gov. Mark Parsons pardoned McCloskey and his wife on misdemeanor charges over the highly publicized incident last summer in which he and wife Patricia, both armed at the time, defended their home against alleged trespassers.
Seething Missouri Rep. Cori Bush warns Mark McCloskey’s ‘day will come’ after gubernatorial pardon https://t.co/T00Mjn2Mf1 pic.twitter.com/hP3gEYt18o
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) August 5, 2021
“His day will come,” Bush said of McCloskey.
Rep. Bush’s latest rant is hardly going over well on social media. Here is just a sampling:
The hypocrisy just renders me speechless.
— Kevin Murnen (@KevinMurnen) August 5, 2021
The very definition of “elitism”
— Mermaid11 (@betagoldfish) August 5, 2021
So she gets security and protection because she is important but the average American working 60 hours a week paying taxes for her to be protected and get paid we are on our own. She wants to take away police and take your gun so you can’t defend yourself when there is no police.
— Harold (@HaroldKnighten) August 5, 2021
I thought this was parody at first.
This chick is a classic example of rules for thee, but not for me.
She should get social workers to protect her 🤣— Nic Hahn (@Nicole90666138) August 5, 2021
This is objectively horrible. Do better @CoriBush
— bkb82308 (@stingracer0905) August 5, 2021
She’s had attempts on her life, 🤔 you would think that would be front page news and on every news station.
Perhaps I missed the wall to wall coverage of that.
— China ownes the Biden family (@ScottK081) August 5, 2021
Unbelievable…that statement is why we are barely hanging on to the majority.@CoriBush needs to understand that if we lose the majority in 2022, nothing she says or does will ever matter again.
— lauren girard (@laureniscooking) August 5, 2021
This is what narcissism looks like.
— Matt from Providence (@MattFromProv) August 5, 2021
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