Radical leftist “Squad” member Cori Bush of Missouri received bad news.
A businessman in St. Louis, Republican-hopeful Andrew Jones, is leaving the private sector to challenge Bush in a run for Congress. Jones says he’s fed up with crime in St. Louis.
“I was tired of the crime and all the issues that I thought could be changed, if you had the proper leadership in play,” Jones told Fox News.
Jones is married and a father of two. He filed to run in the 1st Congressional District on February 22nd in Jefferson City.
Residents in Bush’s district feel as though there is “no hope,” Jones said.
Tthere are more criminals and “people who want to be anti-citizens” that have been “more emboldened” since Bush took office in 2020, he added.
“You see crime escalating. It’s growing. The philosophy of doing what you want to do and not fit in is absolutely growing here in the metropolitan area,” he said.
“Even though the city of Saint Louis talks about there is a reduction in murders, and things of that nature, but we know that those numbers are somewhat fabricated,” said Jones, promising that he will make it a part of his campaign to scrutinize the statistics.
61-year-old Jones disagrees with Bush’s push to defund the police. He says an overwhelming majority of African-Americans in St. Louis want proper representation and policing.
“People want the police,” he responded. “They understand that there’s no perfect system out here. There are no perfect people and certainly things can be done that will be deemed as wrong, negative, and outright criminal by individuals.”
“But overall, the police have been doing a fantastic job. We just need to get behind them and support them. But the overwhelming majority of people support the police,” said Jones, who ran for St. Louis mayor in 2017 and 2021.
“The courage of Black people, historically, the production and the high value that Black people had, the contributions for family and… they’re [BLM] against most of that stuff. So, as far as an organization is concerned, I think it’s a fraud organization,” he said.
More on this story via Fox News:
In 2020, St. Louis saw a record high of murders in over 50 years, an unprecedented record in the wake of a growing push to defund the police. The city recorded 263 homicides according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting system. In 2021, that number fell 26% to 195, a return to its average rate over the past five years.
According to the St. Louis Dispatch, St. Louis’s homicide rate led the nation’s big cities from 2015-2020. After St. Louis’ crime rate soared to its highest ever, the city’s mayor Tishaura Jones was elected after vowing to enact progressive criminal justice reforms.
The police-involved killing of George Floyd in 2020 sparked a national phenomenon to push a defunding of the police and criminal justice reform in major cities.
At the forefront of the “Defund Police” movement was Black Lives Matter activist Bush.
The progressive “Squad” member has remained committed to defunding the police despite growing Democrats’ concerns over the political consequences. Bush recently indicated she is refusing to back away from the “defund the police” slogan even if it hurts Democrats politically…
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