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Rantz: Democrat Kim Schrier lies in interview about her record on policing
Nov 3, 2022, 6:45 AM | Updated: 3:54 pm
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Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., attends a new member welcome briefing in the
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BY JASON RANTZ
The Jason Rantz Show, 3pm-6pm on KTTH

The election is slipping away and Democrat incumbent Rep. Kim Schrier
(D-Issaquah) is getting desperate. Real Clear Politics and Cook
Political Report both changed their ratings for the district. Now, she’s
trying to pivot and pretend she supports law enforcement since crime has
become such a defining issue in the campaign.

In a matter of just a few minutes during an interview on the Gee and
Ursula Show on KIRO Newsradio, Schrier managed to spew nothing but lies
and ignorance about her positions on policing. Literally every claim she
made was false and the record should be made clear.

Schrier says she’s always supported the police, never deemed policing as
racist, and has always worked to secure funding for them. The opposite
is true.

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Schrier the Liar Part 1: She thinks the police are racist
The congresswoman told Gee and Ursula that she “wanted to correct the
record” on claims she has called police racist.

“I do not believe that our police are racist … I don’t know where
they’re taking that from,” she claimed.

To jog Schrier’s memory, let’s look at a WA-08 Congressional District
Forum on October 17, 2020, hosted by the League of Women Voters of
Washington State. She faced then-challenger Jesse Jensen a few months
after Democrats embraced Black Lives Matter radicals who sought to
defund the police.

Schrier explained what Congress could do to address the impact of
structural racism. She said police suffer from a “culture of racism.”

“Racism has been here as long as we have had people of color in this
country. There’s a 400-year tradition of racism and frankly, the ties
between law enforcement and racism date back to the very beginning of
police when the job of the police in the north was to find runaway
slaves and return them to their slave owners in the south. And it didn’t
stop then. Jim Crow laws perpetuated this and the pursuit and
persecution of people of color at the hands of law enforcement. And
while it is not all law enforcement, it’s there in the culture in many
ways. And the point is, here in Washington state, we’ve done well with
rooting this out. But in other parts of the country, we haven’t,” she said.

When you say law enforcement has a culture of racism that hasn’t been
rooted out — though she gave no examples as to where these racist cops
still operate police departments — you’re saying cops are racist.

Schrier the Liar Part 2: Cutting police funding
Schrier denies cutting the police by $22 million, claiming she has
“consistently voted to increase funding for police.”

“I’m getting in the weeds a little bit. Resources go up every
presidential year, and they automatically come down the next year,”
Schrier said. “And it happens every presidential year that there is a
boost of about $22 million, and then it drops the next year. It happens
every four years. So this is standard. It is not cutting funding.”

Allow us to get in the weeds a bit.

HR 7617 cut the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants in 2020 by $22.2
million. These grants finance state and local law enforcement and can be
used for training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support,
and more. The legislation cut $22.2 million from this fund.

While Schrier would have you believe this kind of funding fluctuates
normally, it happened in the context of the defunding police push. In
fact, HR 7617 made the grant funding contingent on adopting left-wing
police reforms, which included instituting partisan training on racial
bias, which forwarded the smear that cops are racist. That’s a position
Schrier holds.

Democrats may enjoy the privilege of redefining words but cutting $22
million means you’re cutting $22 million.

Schrier the Liar Part 3: Funding from anti-police groups
The Democrat was confronted with the claim that she received $40,000 in
campaign donations from anti-police groups. Schrier said she didn’t know
where that claim came from.

Let’s inform her.

FOX News exclusively reported that Schrier has received backing from a
number of groups that called for the defunding of police. Those groups
include Indivisible Project Inc., the Sierra Club, and MoveOn.

Indivisible Project made their position quite clear when they tweeted,
“Defund the police.” So did MoveOn, tweeting, “Defund the police. Invest
in Black communities. Tell Donald Trump to resign.”

Though Sierra Club is an environmentalist group, they joined the
Democrat bandwagon to dismantle police departments.

“Where did this push to defund the police come from? And why is the
Sierra Club supporting it? It comes from recognizing that the problems
with policing can’t be solved through piecemeal reforms or getting rid
of ‘a few bad apples.’ The whole barrel – the whole system – is rotten,”
Sierra Club president Ramón Cruz wrote.

Matt Larkin surging at the right time
Real Clear Politics now says the district leans Republican. Cook
Political Report says it’s a toss-up. It’ll be close, no doubt, but
Larkin is surging at the right time. And it’s got Schrier spooked.

Though crime is rising, Democrats continue to pretend otherwise. And
Schrier was reluctant to discuss the issue until she realized voters
correctly blamed her party for what’s happened.

Schrier has since feigned support for cops. For the last two years,
you’ll be hard-pressed to find anything positive she’s said about the
police, and cops don’t like her.

A flyer by an independent group pretended she had the support of a local
police chief, but he didn’t authorize the ad and wanted nothing to do
with her campaign. Lying about police support has backfired and voters
know she’s a fraud.

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