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Soros Financing Removal of Law and Order DAs

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Hedge fund billionaire George Soros, who has spent millions of dollars to weaken sentencing laws nationally, is now focusing on replacing District Attorneys who do not subscribe to his progressive social justice agenda.   Scott Bland of Politco reports that through a network of super PACS and and 527 non-profits Soros has funneled roughly $3 million into seven local district attorney races in six states over the past year, with victories in all but one.  The Soros-supported candidates share the view that  prosecutors routinely make racially-biased charging decisions and that drug offenders should be diverted to programs rather than face trial.  In one Louisiana race, Soros-backed groups gave $930,000 to elect his chosen candidate, an enormous amount for a district attorney campaign.  The influence of Soros money on law enforcement policy has been dramatic over the past several years.  Through his Open Society Foundations in New York (there are three), the San Francisco based Tides Foundation, Advocacy Fund and Tides Center, money flows through 527 groups scattered around the county, each named with a variation of "Safety and Justice," Soros provided major funding to California  Proposition 36, a 2012 initiative that shortened the sentences of thousands of third strikers, and Proposition  47, a 2014 initiative that converted thousands of annual theft and drug related crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.  The Proposition 47 campaign received big contributions from the Open Society Policy Center, and the California-based 527 groups Crime Victims for Safety and Justice and Californians For Safety and Justice.  Days after Proposition 47 passed, Soros gave $50 million to the national ACLU, to push for adoption of similar sentencing reduction laws in other states and advocate for reduced sentences for federal crimes.  While his effort to elect social activists as District Attorneys is only a year old, its initial success guarantees that Soros will expand his spending over the years ahead, to put more District Attorneys like Baltimore's Marilyn Mosby and San Francisco's George Gascon in office.  Be afraid. 
 

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