{"id":1311574,"date":"2019-06-18T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/shannon-column-george-soros-continues-to-collect-district-attorneys\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T04:20:00","slug":"shannon-column-george-soros-continues-to-collect-district-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/shannon-column-george-soros-continues-to-collect-district-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon column: George Soros continues to collect district attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week\u2019s Democrat primary in Virginia\u2019s Fairfax and Arlington Counties was great news for companies whose business model includes cleaning human poop off the sidewalk. The sanctimonious leftists in both counties just nominated new prosecutors who plan on increasing justice by ignoring crime.<\/p>\n

Thanks to almost $1 million contributed by George Soros, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti defeated the incumbent DA in Arlington and Steve Descano defeated the incumbent in Fairfax. Those two victories bring the total number of campaigns that Soros has tried to buy to at least 23.<\/p>\n

The $583,000 that Soros gave Tafti represented 78 percent of her total campaign budget. The $392,000 George sent Descano was marginally less at 71 percent of his budget. In those two true blue counties winning the Democrat primary means winning in November, too.<\/p>\n

So, what did Soros buy? Two more DAs who won\u2019t be prosecuting \u201cquality of life\u201d crimes. This means that in Northern Virginia, just like in San Francisco, pooping in public, being drunk in public, camping in public, sleeping in public, shooting up in public and waving your pubes in public will no longer be illegal.<\/p>\n

These \u201creform\u201d DAs also won\u2019t ask for the death penalty, won\u2019t prosecute for \u201cminor property crimes\u201d and will be working as hard as they can to end \u201cmass incarceration.\u201d I can\u2019t think of another elected office where the winner got there by promising he will take a laid-back approach to performing the duties of office.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re skeptical and wondering just how bad could it really be living under a Soros DA? Cook County State\u2019s Attorney Kim Foxx \u2014 the woman who broomed the charges pending against racial incident hoaxer Jussie Smollett \u2014 was a $408,000 addition to the Soros CollectionTM.<\/p>\n

The politically naive will contend the two new Virginia DAs \u2014 who between themselves have never tried a criminal case in state court \u2014 told the Washington Post both campaign\u2019s issues were \u201cuse[ing] their discretion to no longer prosecute marijuana possession, ask for cash bail or pursue the death penalty. They said they would expand efforts to keep nonviolent offenders out of jail and charge in ways that lead to lower sentences across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nothing about sidewalk BMs and discarded syringes there. That is true. And that is irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Soros knows exactly how Tafti and Descano will operate in office because his PAC interviewed them in person. If both of these worthies weren\u2019t chapter and verse on the Soros Soft on Crime program, George never would\u2019ve cut a check. What they said in private to Soros\u2019 operatives and what they fed the public only bear a slight resemblance.<\/p>\n

In addition, Descano explained to Inside Nova that he \u201cwould not charge theft of property under $1,500 at the felony level.\u201d And Tafti, quoted in Bacon\u2019s Rebellion, is appalled that \u201cArlington produces felony convictions at two to three times the rate of neighboring counties despite having less crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching where they step on the sidewalk will be the least of Arlington and Fairfax county residents problems in the near future. Wait until someone breaks into Buffy\u2019s Prius and steals her airbag and stash of granola bars. Buffy\u2019s not going to be happy when she learns fighting \u201cmass incarceration\u201d doesn\u2019t involve fighting street crime.<\/p>\n

Speaking of \u201cmass incarceration\u201d Michele Hanisee, president of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys, corrected another Soros\u2019 candidate on that topic, \u201c\u2026 as of 2016, 91 percent of state prison inmates are serving time for a violent, serious or sexual offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those aren\u2019t black teenagers caught taking a toke or shoplifting Juul cartridges. Those are hardened criminals, and if they\u2019re back on the street in California or Virginia you will be reading about them sooner or later.<\/p>\n

Another characteristic of Soros\u2019 DAs is mass firings when they do take office. If I were a prosecutor in either county I would not be taking on any long-term financial commitments.<\/p>\n

As the LA Times reported, \u201cIn Philadelphia, Soros financed DA Larry Krasner fired 31 DDAs in his first week of office; nearly one-third were in the homicide unit and included a prosecutor set to begin a murder trial the following Monday. \u2026 In Houston, the Soros financed DA Kim Ogg \u2026 fired 37 veteran prosecutors in pursuit of her \u201cculture change.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post assures voters neither Laurel nor Hardy, excuse me, Tafti or Descano \u201chas plans to fire career prosecutors.\u201d But Descano muses, \u201cthe question is, can these individuals get on the program with reform?\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing the answer will be no.<\/p>\n

Both Tafti and Descano want to rewrite the law without bothering to go to Richmond. If a conservative did this, it would be called \u201ctyranny.\u201d When leftists do it, the term is \u201creform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Shannon is a commentator and public relations consultant. He can be reached at mandate.mmpr@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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