Arlington, VA – On Wednesday during the Republican Presidential Debate, numerous candidates addressed crime and inaction by liberal prosecutors. Jessica Curtis, the President of the Protecting Americans Action Fund, the organization committed to electing prosecutors who will enforce our laws, released the following statement:
“With crime rising across our country, we need a leader in the White House who will support law enforcement, and who understands the importance of having law-and-order prosecutors in office. Protecting Americans Action Fund was created to help elect prosecutors who enforce our laws, and to fight back against George Soros and liberal activists to ensure that the American people are kept safe, and the needs of victims are put ahead of criminals.”
BACKGROUND:
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS: “So here’s the thing: these hollowed-out cities, this is a symptom of America’s decline, and one of the biggest reasons is because you have George Soros funding these radical left-wing district attorneys, they get into office, and they say they’re not going to prosecute crimes they disagree with. The inmates start running the asylum. There’s one guy in this entire country that’s ever done anything about that – me. When we had two of these district attorneys in Florida elected with Soros funding who said they wouldn’t do their job. I removed them from their posts, they are gone.”
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE: “Well, I think what’s the part to blame is the Democrats been talking about defunding the police for the last five years. And we ought to be funding law enforcement, particularly in our major cities at unprecedented levels. I mean, it’s extraordinary to think about the violence that’s claiming innocent lives literally every week in every major city in this country. And yet, Democrats and liberal prosecutors in major metropolitan areas continue to work out their fanciful agendas that do bail reform and go easy. What we need is strong commitment to law enforcement. We need leadership in Washington, D.C., that’ll marshal the resources of the states, marshal the resources of the American people, but let me also say it’s about opportunity.”
GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE: “You know, I’m proud of the fact right that I’m the only person along with Governor Hutchinson up on this stage who has actually run a United States Attorney’s office. I ran the fifth largest office in America in a state where there is significant urban crime, and the problem is not going to be solved by more money. The problem is that these prosecutors in these localities in the states are refusing to do their job and to arrest violent criminals. So what a President Christie would do, is appoint an Attorney General, who would instruct each of the 93 US attorneys that they are to take over the prosecution of violent crime in every one of those cities that are failing to do so. We have plenty of room in the federal prisons to lock up these violent criminals and clean up what’s going on all across this country and these individual cities.”