Soros Spending $1 Million To Stop Effort to Hire More Police in Austin
https://conservativebrief.com/soros-spen...&utm_medium=539
Jonathan Davis
October 16, 2021



Left-wing billionaire George Soros is dumping as much as $1 million into an anti-police effort in the Texas capital of Austin as the city attempts to hire more officers amid shortages that are putting the public at risk.

According to campaign finance documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, “the Hungarian-born political activist gave $500,000 through the Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center to a political action committee in opposition to a ballot initiative that forces the city to employ two police officers per 1,000 residents.”

“Soros’s donation, made on Oct. 12, is his second of the month and comes as Austin experiences a decades-high spike in violent crime,” the outlet continued, noting that there have been at least 67 homicides this year in the city, the highest number since 1981, while aggravated assaults have gone up by 10 percent after spiking again last year by 20 percent.

The WFB adds:

On Oct. 1, the Open Society Policy Center cut its first $500,000 check to Equity PAC, a Texas-based political organization that backs left-wing causes. The donation is the latest example of Soros’s involvement in various left-wing causes at the local level. In 2020, Soros donated over $600,000 to a Texas-based left-wing group that backed the election of José Garza, who now serves as district attorney for Travis County, where Austin sits.-- excerpt, rest at link above --