First-term Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock spent over $600,000 on security services while calling for increased gun control on everyday Americans, according to a new Fox News report.
The Democratic senator ran on “reducing senseless gun violence” and has since co-sponsored legislation to ban so-called “assault weapons” and private firearms transfers (a.k.a, “universal background checks”).
While supporting initiatives that would disarm law-abiding Americans, Warnock has paid an Atlanta-based private security firm a whopping $603,161 between October 2020 and September 2021.
The expenses are for “security” and the company, Executive Protection Agencies, describes its services as VIP protection with a “keen eye with a thorough knowledge of the venue through threat assessment” for its clients.
“In a progressive city, turn to a progressive company, EPA Security we stay a step ahead!” the company says on its website.
Warnock isn’t the only gun-grabbing politician to pay for elite security services. “Squad” members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush spent $100,000 in the third quarter of this year while calling for the police to be defunded and for Americans to be disarmed.
Rep. Cori Bush came under particular fire in August when she tried to explain her need for private security.
“I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do there, too many people that need help right now for me to allow that,” she said. “So, if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend 10 more dollars on it — you know what? I get to be here to do the work.”
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Warnock has the support of large anti-gun organizations like the Brady Campaign, which spent $100,000 to help him unseat Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
He’s also ridiculed people who want to carry firearms into church for self-protection.
“You’ve got politicians who go to church every Sunday morning and then walk into that Capitol, stand under that gold dome, and come up with the dumbest legislation you can ever imagine,” Warnock said. “Think about all the crazy people you bump into just on the routine, every week. On your job, on the street, some of them in church. … Imagine all them people with guns.”
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Warnock has also partnered with Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a subgroup of Everytown for Gun Safety that supports gun control measures like universal background checks and red flag laws, and opposes self-defense policies like “stand your ground.”
The first-term senator is facing a tough road to reelection next year. Warnock barely beat out his opponent in 2020 in the historically red state, and his leading Republican challenger, former NFL star Herschel Walker, has raised $100,000 a day since he announced his candidacy.
Enjoy the fire commies.
This POS spend five times what I make in a year on security, tell me these political types don’t make too much money I wish I had half of that to spend on a house but I don’t, so f*** him and his $600,000 on security in a year!
I have a serious question. All these Dems in congress and so forth make what, like $150k per year. How is it the sqaud and this douchebag spend 3 or 4 times their own salary on private security. All of them. What do u think Bloomberg and Soros security costs per year?
Simple. Hold the hand for the bribe. Some of them whip out their hand so fast that they burn their sleeves and arm hair.
Do we really think everyone should be required to own guns to protect themselves even if they know they are not well-suited to do so? Do you really think that Warnock is not at greater risk than the normal person and, therefore, might be smart for having paid security staff? This argument is illogical on so many levels; false equivalence bring one of them
Dano you are correct in that warnock and all those left wing hypocrites can have as much security as they want. But none of those people protecting them should be allowed to have a Gun or weapon that they are against everyday citizens from having. The hypocrisy is insane. These democrats make up words like assault weapons but have no idea what it even means, while all the while using money that isn’t there’s to feel safe because of the people being paid to protect them having those same type weapons. Come on Dano .
So you think warnock is entitled to his private security because he’s a controversial political figure. Who is providing security for everybody else? Are mere citizens unworthy of personal defense?
The supreme court has ruled on numerous occasions that law enforcement has no duty to protect the lives and property of anyone but prisoners. By extrapolation, citizens must provide their own protection or be bereft and subject to the ravages of any group or armed thug that seeks to have their way. How are we to accomplish this without the means? The city of Kennesaw, Georgia, passed a law in 1982 (not enforced) that every household be armed. For some reason, this SUBURB of Atlanta has a crime rate 38% lower than the nation, violent crimes are 63% lower than the national average. and property crimes 34% below the national average. Nearby Atlanta though: Total crime 118% national average, Violent crime 103% national average, Property crime 121% national average.
Could gun ownership (real or imagined) be a factor?
I think the security money for these minor tyrants comes from political donations to their campaigns, not from the taxpayer. Nancy Pelosi and the majority leader in the house are entitled and get taxpayer paid security as the y are 2nd and 3rd in the line of presidential succession under the law, respectively.
I remember back in the day, when Ted Kennedy’s head of his private security detail was arrested in DC for having a real machine gun. Evidently he had various permission slips to use and possess machine guns in all 50 states, but they forgot to get a permit for DC,
When Senator Kennedy traveled to other countries, his private security guards obtained weapons and diplomatic credentials from the local U.S. Embassy to allow them to carry arms in the country he was visiting.
Its good to be the King and one rule for me and another for thee.
Tax free political donations that are then funneled to friends and family under the guise of security by politicians that want to disarm everyone else.
An exampe of such was when that fake Catholic Priest in Chicago with his fake southern accent had a bunch of heavily armed amatuer CC people providing security for Father fraud and the fake columnist Jessie Jackson.
That’s one reason why drunkie Kennedy is burning in hell as we speak.
Defund security details for House members and Senators.
These frigging hypocritical democrats. They get high priced security paid for by taxpayers and they want us simple folk / peasants, as they think of us to be disarmed and fend for ourselves. Not going to happen.