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Liberal Prosecutors: Bought & Paid for by George Soros

<p>Billionaire hedge fund manager and leading Black Lives Matter funder George Soros has come under fire for dumping more than &dollar;7 million into committees designed to elect liberal prosecutors&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Soros owns a number of state-registered fundraising committees&comma; all of which are named for the state in which they operate followed by &ldquo&semi;Safety &amp&semi; Justice&period;&rdquo&semi; In September&comma; Soros donated &dollar;147&comma;000 to &&num;8220&semi;Georgia Safety &amp&semi; Justice&comma;&&num;8221&semi; a committee formed just one month earlier to help elect Democrat Darius Pattillo as district attorney of Henry County&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Realizing he simply couldn&rsquo&semi;t compete with Soros&comma; Republican rival Matthew McCord decided to drop out of the race&period; &ldquo&semi;It was horrible&comma;&rdquo&semi; says McCord&period; &ldquo&semi;They rented space&comma; they had a staff&comma; they were using a Washington&comma; DC-based PR firm&period; So what I knew was they could say whatever they wanted to say about me&period; It didn&rsquo&semi;t matter if it was true&comma; and I would have no way to respond&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And that&rsquo&semi;s just what they did&period; Overlooking the fact that McCord had founded an organization that helps send minority kids to school&comma; the Soros campaigners labeled him a &ldquo&semi;white racist&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>McCord wasn&rsquo&semi;t the only one to be pushed out by Soros&rsquo&semi; &ldquo&semi;generosity&period;&rdquo&semi; In the past two years&comma; the billionaire has donated more than &dollar;7 million to prosecutorial races in 10 states&period; In 9 of 11 elections&comma; the Soros-backed Democrat triumphed&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Obviously Soros picks people who share his point of view&comma;&rdquo&semi; says McCord&period; &ldquo&semi;But I think it&rsquo&semi;s awfully disingenuous when people who are the benefactors of that money act like they don&rsquo&semi;t know anything after it happened&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The get-out-the-vote effort is massive&comma;&rdquo&semi; adds Dhu Thompson&comma; another district attorney candidate who lost to a Soros-backed opponent&period; &ldquo&semi;When Soros comes&comma; he&rsquo&semi;s going to bring his own people&comma; and they&rsquo&semi;re going to bus everyone he can to the polls&comma; and it&rsquo&semi;s going to affect other races&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Soros&rsquo&semi; main target seems to be criminal justice reform&comma; and progressives have praised his commitment to helping elect prosecutors who share his views&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;While other mega-donors pour money into the presidential and congressional campaigns&comma; Soros is changing the American justice system for the better&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em>Reverb Press&rsquo&semi;<&sol;em> Megan Hamilton&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Republicans have been quick to point out the potential problems with &ldquo&semi;bought and paid for&rdquo&semi; prosecutors&comma; including the fact they they feel indebted to Mr&period; Soros&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These concerns were exemplified most recently by Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith&comma; a Soros-backed candidate who was indicted a few months ago after trying to hinder the prosecution of two criminal defendants&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democrat Kim Ogg&comma; a Soros-backed candidate who was elected in Harris County last week&comma; argues that an incumbent&rsquo&semi;s record is far more important than Soros&rsquo&semi; support&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;My opponent&rsquo&semi;s campaign has tried to create a false narrative that my policies have been influenced by my financial supporters&comma;&rdquo&semi; argues Ogg&period; &ldquo&semi;But my policy and platforms have been consistent&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some Dems are even criticizing Soros for his outside interference&comma; and former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has slammed Soros&rsquo&semi; behavior as a &ldquo&semi;false and reckless attempt to manipulate the DA&rsquo&semi;s race in the 1st Judicial District&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With Republicans controlling the House&comma; Senate&comma; and Presidency&comma; we will likely see more wealthy democrats trying to accomplish their goals through similar tactics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But what George Soros really has in mind is anyone&rsquo&semi;s guess&period; &ldquo&semi;Only time will tell if there was a specific policy he wanted them to implement&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Thompson&period; &ldquo&semi;But we&rsquo&semi;re keeping our eyes open&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Soro&&num;8217&semi;s has bought into the idea that there are too many black people in jail&comma; and the solution is to let them out&period; 80&percnt; of black kids in the lower economic strata do not have a father in their household&period; The real solution would be to encourage marriage&comma; since in two person families kids are less likely to get into trouble&period; But apparently liberals are too lazy to do the hard work it takes to help people the right way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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