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HOUSTON – In Case You Missed It, Protect and Serve Texas PAC (PTSX PAC) spokesperson Donald Baker wrote a new column for the Daily Caller this week highlighting how Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s dangerous anti-police policies and rhetoric would be disastrous for the City of Houston.
In the column, Baker writes:
“In a city of 2.3 million people, Houston cannot afford a mayor who does not support those who put on the uniform every day to protect us.”
“With crime consistently ranked in poll after poll as the most important issue for Houston voters, Jackson Lee’s record on law enforcement should concern everyone.”
Baker details some of Jackson Lee’s most disturbing anti-police positions, policy proposals, associations, and rhetoric, including:
Proudly sponsoring legislation that she said “answers the concerns” of radical anti-police protesters calling for the defunding of police departments. “What I hear when they say defund, they want reprogrammed dollars,” she said.
Actively campaigning for and supporting radical Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who ran on a platform of “redirecting money away from policing.”
Introducing legislation alongside radical “squad” politician Ilhan Omar to weaponize the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute law enforcement officers.
Vocally defending the City of Philadelphia after it cut its police budget by $33 million, saying that “defund police” had been “misinterpreted” and was instead a “reimagining” of public safety.
Voting against H.J.R. 26, which blocked Washington, D.C.’s radical rewrite of the city’s criminal code that would have “reduced maximum sentences for robberies, carjackings, home invasion burglaries, and illegal gun possessions, which have spiked in the District over the past three years.”
Receiving a full-throated endorsement from the radical anti-police Texas Organizing Project (TOP), which has advocated for the “dismantling” of police departments. In 2020, TOP promoted pro-defund messages, even going so far as to suggest that police departments should eventually be “abolished.”
Using her platform on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to praise George Soros as a “patriot,” and defend the soft-on-crime district attorneys Soros has backed in recent election cycles: “We have accusatory commentary of Soros’ DAs,” Jackson Lee said. “Let us not put an individual that is not here, a contributing American, and jeopardize his life by always throwing his name out in the most ugly of ways. I am offended by that. Mr. Soros does not deserve that. He is an American and a patriot.” In August, George Soros funneled $250,000 to TOP to support radical, anti-police candidates, including Jackson Lee.
Baker draws on his decades of law enforcement experience to explain how Jackson Lee’s hostile positions and rhetoric against police officers will damage public safety in Houston:
“As a former police commander and law enforcement officer for more than three decades, I understand how poor leadership at the local level can cripple a police department’s ability to recruit and retain officers.”
“If Houston voters make the critical mistake of electing Sheila Jackson Lee as mayor, that’s exactly the type of crisis in law enforcement leadership they can expect. This is especially troublesome at a time when Houston has become the sixth most vulnerable city for burglaries and when 63 percent of Houston voters say they are afraid to walk at night.”
Baker concludes with a call to action for Houston voters ahead of next Saturday’s Mayoral Runoff Election:
“We cannot allow the fourth largest city in the country to go the way of Chicago, Philadelphia, or San Francisco. Voters who care about tackling rising crime must reject Jackson Lee on Dec. 9.”
To read the full column in the Daily Caller, click here.
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Protect and Serve Texas is a political action committee (PAC) dedicated to supporting candidates across Texas who support public safety, back law enforcement and first responders, and work to decrease violent crime. Protect and Serve Texas also engages in ballot initiatives where support for law enforcement or first responders is on the ballot. Originally founded to counter the "Defund the Police" movement, Protect and Serve Texas PAC continues to advocate for the brave women and men in our state who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.
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