It may sound strange, but many affluent suburbs have essentially already begun pursuing a defunding of the police in that they fund schools, they fund housing and they fund health care more as their number one priorities.
Ocasio-Cortez explains how affluent suburbs are reallocating funds away from policing towards social services.
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I am very concerned about the example that is being set by anybody in our party … if an individual doesn’t want to support the party’s nominee now, it complicates their ability to ask voters to support any nominee later.
And I think the message that that sends is that the Democratic Party cannot last much longer by denying the future.
We have a Democratic nominee. Are we a party who rallies behind our nominee or not?
Letitia isn’t backing down, and we need to support her in this critical moment.
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