Representative Cori Bush on security and policing

 U.S. Representative Cori Bush  (D-MO) spends a great deal on personal security. I'm not sure how much her office spends as opposed to the general taxpayer but it is in the tens of thousands. Bush is also in favor of defunding the police. 

In fact, in this video, she takes the interesting position that she needs the personal security to fight for defunding the police. 

I don't follow the logic here and since I can't follow the logic I'm not able to determine the hypocrisy.

Bush also states that she receives death threats but there is evidence that, at least some of the hate mail she has received was uploaded from from her own office.

The image of Bush was taken from this second link.

Mayor Muriel Bowser a 'Mask for Covid' Hypocrite

Muriel  Bowser (she is at top right in the image) is Mayor of Washington D.C.  I met her at an event once when I was the on duty mashgiach. This was long before the pandemic.

On 29 July, Mayor Bower announced that masks would be required at indoor events beginning at 5am on 31 July 2021.  

 

Between the announcement and the deadline, Bowser had a birthday party unmasked (she is 2nd from right in the second image, Dave Chappelle is in the middle) and then officiated at a wedding unmasked. 

 

There was a reception the next morning, which was 31 July. The event was related to the wedding  and began after the 5am deadline for masks. Bower was unmasked. She has received a fair amount of criticism for this.

She could have apologized and said, "I got confused between 5am and 5pm) or some other excuse but as near as I can tell she has not. The Mayor is pretty popular and perhaps doesn't really care about this kind of criticism.

Anyway, assuming that she knew what she was doing, I will call it hypocrisy.

Article on this (in British Paper) is here.