Missouri Rep. Cori Bush spent $70,000 of her campaign money on private security, even while publicly campaigning to defund the police. When pressed on the issue, Bush said she needed security to protect her so she could work to defund the police. This is a hilarious double standard, typical of the toxic, race-baiting, leftist politicians in the country today.
Bush is on the record as saying that policing is “another system of bondage” through which “slavery quite literally lives on today.” She’s tweeted that America is “racist AF.” Yet when it comes to security, she feels she deserves protection that more vulnerable minority communities should lack.
Bush represents all of St. Louis, Missouri, ranked one of the three most dangerous cities in the country in 2020. Bush’s constituents clearly need the police a lot more than Bush does. Yet Bush’s constituents do not have the privilege and wealth to protect themselves with a security team.
Kimberly Klacik, the founder of Red Renaissance and former candidate for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, knows what it is like to come from an area with high crime rates. Her district included Baltimore, a city with similar crime rates to St. Louis. Klacik took offense to Bush’s hypocrisy and how it harms black people who live in areas with high crime.
“Congresswoman Cori Bush claims black lives matter, but she showed the country only her black life matters,” Klacik said. “The majority of Americans have the same needs, regardless of party affiliation. We want safe neighborhoods and good education for our children, which Democrats are failing to provide.”
Even more hypocritical is that Bush’s security was financed by her campaign donors. Her security accounted for a significant part of her campaign finances during her campaign. This, in turn, means that the people who were so happy to donate money to Bush’s efforts to defund police were actually paying for Bush’s police protection.
Bush wants the vulnerable to continue to be victimized by crime while she enjoys the privilege that comes with being a politician. Rhetoric like hers will continue to win over wealthy donors who don’t have to worry about crime where they live, all the while causing impoverished constituents in the communities she represents to suffer. Bush wants to ensure that she has an ample amount of security protecting her, all the while fighting to make sure the innocent people who make up her district do not have adequate protection against those wishing to do harm.
Bush styles herself as someone trying to protect her constituents from the police. But someone needs to protect the citizens in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District from Bush.
