Eugene DePasquale is Soros’ Pro-Crime Choice for Pennsylvania Attorney General
DePasquale’s pitch to crime-weary voters is compromised by his funding sources
When questioned about law and order in Pennsylvania, Eugene DePasquale can belt out a song about how devoted he is to lower crime rates the safety of his constituents.
The Democrat running for Attorney General does that on his website and it did again recently in his debate with Dave Sunday, the Republican candidate. The problem is that the money flowing into DePasquale’s coffers, not just in this race, but in others, indicate he’s not really serious about fighting the crime wave created by the radical Left.
DePasquale, who hails from Pittsburgh, served as state’s auditor general from 2013 to 2021 and as an elected official in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013. He also ran for a U.S. House seat to represent Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District in 2020, but he lost to incumbent Republican Scott Perry. It was this congressional race that opened a window into the funding DePasquale has received from unsavory sources. While he is telling voters in 2024 that he will ”go after violent criminals,“ they should know has history of accepting funding from someone who does not.
George Soros, the Hungarian-American Democratic mega-donor who operates the Open Society Foundations, contributed $2,800 to DePasquale’s House race. But that’s just for starters, here in this current race Jonathan Soros, the son of George Soros, contributed $2 million to DePasquale through the PAC for America’s Future Pennsylvania. Jonathan Soros also contributed $4,000 individually, as did his wife Jennifer Allen Soros.
Recall that Soros is not exactly committed to law and order. In fact, quite the opposite. The Heritage Foundation has reported on how Soros-backed “progressives” elected to prosecutorial positions have declined to pursue violent criminals. Standing at the top of this list is Larry Krasner who was elected as Philadelphia’s district attorney in 2017 while receiving $1.7 million from “Soros-funded groups.” For Krasner’s reelection campaign in 2021, he received more than $1.2 million from Soros.
Under Krasner’s anti-police, pro-crime policies, murders are up 63% and shootings are up 78%, according to figures compiled by the Heritage Foundation. Now imagine what would happen if DePasquale continued in the same vein as Krasner if elected. The Attorney General has a significant budget to wrestle crime under control with the right leadership, but it can also be misapplied applied toward progressive, anti-law enforcement policies that jeopardize the public.
During the debate with his Republican opponent, DePasquale suggetsed that crime was on a downward trend in Pennsylvania. That would come as news to his constituents who have been suffering under spiking rates of murder, arson, and human trafficking across the entire state.
Restoration News has reported that crime stats in all major categories have dramatically risen in the Keystone State while DePasquale’s political party has been calling the shots. Philadelphia’s Democrat-led city council slashed $33 million from the police budget in June 2020. Someone should ask DePasquale if he thinks this was a good idea in light of rising crime rates.
The position of attorney general is frequently used as a launching pad on toward the governorship, which would suggest now is good time to flush out DePasquale’s position on law enforcement and probe into how much stage direction he is taking from Soros and family.
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