Political activism involves having ten percent care for the thing you’re concerned about and about 90 percent utilizing that cause to enrich yourself.
The “defund the police” movement that happened alongside the Black Lives Matter movement during the 2020 elections convinced a lot of blue-state leaders to “reimagine” what policing looked like in their city. Criminals didn’t go along with “reimagining” what being a criminal looked like and many of the cities descended into crime-infested hell holes with high homicide rates. The situation was so dire that San Francisco became the first to demand the return of their police officers.
Among those trumpeting the “defund the police” grift were members of “the squad” including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. It turned out that she and the other squad members were guilty of trying to reduce public protection while using your tax dollars to improve private security.
When it came down to funding the police force, there was only one voice louder than hers. That was Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley. While Pressley wanted police to be stripped of all their funds, Pressley was actually using taxpayer dollars to secure private security.
The Daily Caller has new evidence that Pressley spends thousands for private security.
According to the new Statement of Disbursements of the House records, Pressley spent $63,000 of her Member Representational Allowance (MRA) on “security service” in 2021 — spending $28,000 between Oct. 1, 2021 and Dec. 31, 2021 and $35,000 between May 2021 and August 2021.
According to the payments, the money went to Alisa Tatarian who works as a financial administrator at the U.S House of Representatives. The final spending of this money is unclear. The Daily Caller contacted Tatarian as well as Pressley’s office several times about the money that was spent on “security service,” to which they did not respond.
“The Member’s Representational Allowance (MRA) is intended for individual member offices’ expenditures and receipts during a single legislative year. MRA funds are provided by fiscal year appropriations that are authorized each year by the Committee on House Administration. It is non-transferable between legislative years,” the House government website states.
“Ayanna Pressley and her fellow Squad members have repeatedly called for our police to be defunded while simultaneously paying top dollar for their own private security with taxpayer funds,” New York Rep. Elise Stefanik told the Daily Wire. “All while violent crime rates are surging across our cities. Pressley and other members of the Squad believe that police should be for them, but not us. Democrats are the party for elitist hypocrites, and they want to defund the police. The American people know this, and that is why this November there will be a red tsunami.”
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that a Democrat politician, especially a hard leftist, that was pounding the table for a change wanted to not have to deal with that change herself. Among many of the movements that have sprung up from the left, be it the Women’s March or Climate Change activism, the activist wants you to have to suffer the downsides of their demands but doesn’t want to deal with it themselves.
Wanting less security for others while using their money to hire people to protect you might be one of the more egregious examples of “for me but not for thee.”
This is how the world works.
The Black Lives Matter Movement is one of the most significant grifts we have seen in recent times. It dominated every aspect of news, from football fields to headlines during the 2020 elections cycle. Patrice Cullors was the founding member of Black Lives Matter. He had become extremely wealthy, and had bought several houses in California.
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