{"id":50774,"date":"2021-12-18T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T22:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/?p=50774"},"modified":"2022-02-12T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T01:22:44","slug":"soros-funds-radical-activist-to-elect-radical-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/current-projects\/soros-funds-radical-activist-to-elect-radical-das\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros Funds Radical Activist to Elect Radical DAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Post<\/em>‘s Isabel Vincent reported Thursday<\/a> that billionaire Hungarian progressive philanthropist George Soros<\/a> has used a criminal justice reform activist to funnel funds for the elections of radical major-city district attorneys. He has done so through a complex web of PACs and nonprofits, evading election reporting transparency, according to the Post<\/em> report:<\/p>\n

Last year, the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a nonprofit in Soros\u2019 orbit, gave $3 million to the\u00a0Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, according to\u00a0a recent report.\u00a0<\/a>The group provides resources to \u201clocal advocates and organizations working to address the harm of policing in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hungarian-born philanthropist Soros and his Open Society group of non-profits have mainly doled out cash to political action campaigns controlled by attorney and criminal justice reform activist Whitney Tymas (pictured above), 60. She is the treasurer of the Justice and Safety PAC as well as 20 other similarly named groups at both the state and federal levels, according to public filings.<\/p>\n

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The goal of the myriad PACs is focused on electing progressives to end tough policing and mass incarceration, according to Tymas. \u201cIf we are to reach a place of true progress, it will take the sustained efforts of local elected prosecutors across the country to rectify and reimagine their role in the criminal legal system \u2014 not just as gatekeepers, but as active catalysts for change,\u201d wrote Tymas in an\u00a0opinion article last year.<\/a>..<\/p>\n

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Her efforts coupled with Soros\u2019 largesse have played an outsize role in some of the most controversial district attorney campaigns in the US, including Chesa Boudin in San Francisco, George Gascon in Los Angeles as well as Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and Kim Foxx in Chicago, among others…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NLPC’s Tom Anderson told the Post<\/em>: \u201cGeorge Soros has quietly orchestrated the dark money political equivalent of \u2018shock and awe,\u2019 on local attorney races through the country, shattering records, flipping races and essentially making a mockery of our entire campaign finance system.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Post‘s Isabel Vincent reported Thursday that billionaire Hungarian progressive philanthropist George Soros has used a criminal justice reform activist to funnel funds for the elections of radical major-city district attorneys. He has done so through a complex web of PACs and nonprofits, evading election reporting transparency, according to the Post report: Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,11],"tags":[217,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50774"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50864,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50774\/revisions\/50864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}