In a competitive race, vulnerable Abigail Spanberger seeks to flip the script on police messaging — accusing her opponent, former police officer Yesli Vega, of not funding police.
Asked what she thought of Spanberger’s bill in Congress that would offer federal grants to hire more officers, Vega said: “This is election-season Abby who is willing to do and say whatever she needs to say because for her it’s about self-preservation. For me it’s about literally putting my life on the line to defend the community I love.” She decried Spanberger’s vote for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which included a provision to make it easier to sue law enforcement.
More recently, some congressional Republicans have made that easier for Democrats by calling to literally defund the FBI following Farnsworth said Spanberger’s efforts to turn the tables on Vega, focusing on those comments, could energize the more liberal base of the party that might otherwise not be too thrilled with her leading the charge to increase police funding in Congress.
A vote on the legislative package was delayed so that negotiations to include more guardrails for the funding could continue, and it’s unclear when the package may go up again. Spanberger said talks have been constructive and that she did not view police accountability and funding as “mutually exclusive,” seeing value in doing both, or using funding as a tool to allow departments to have more resources for de-escalation training or body cameras.
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