JoAnna Mendoza (D) Definitely Doesn't Support Defunding the Police, She Just Cashes Checks From Groups That Do

The presumptive Democratic nominee in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District, comrade JoAnna Mendoza, is heroically attempting to distance herself from her past comments calling to defund police. At the same time, she's holding fundraisers with far-left groups that have called to defund police, the conservative outlet, The Washington Free Beacon review found. 

Consistency is for losers, after all.

On Friday, for example, Mendoza headlined a big-ticket fundraiser in Los Angeles's affluent Brentwood neighborhood, cohosted by the Heart of LA Democratic Club. The club, which describes its mission as "championing feminist leadership and women's full representation in politics and policy," repeatedly backed the Defund the Police movement. 

In a since-deleted June 2020 tweet, it praised the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter's "compelling presentation to LA City Council on defunding the police" as "a big step towards progress." The club backed a bill to defund police around the same time, and one of its officers, Sarah Kate Levy, said she "see[s] clearly the need to defund." 

She says, "I don't support defunding the police" while raising money with people who do.

Months earlier, in January, Mendoza held another Brentwood fundraiser with the Los Angeles-based Stonewall Democratic Club, which signed a 2020 letter calling for the "divestment of public funding from police" and a resolution calling for "budget reallocation" from police departments "to programs that end systemic, abusive, and unlawful use of lethal force on Black and Brown People." The move, the group said, was about joining "the struggle to end white supremacy, institutional racism, individual bigotry, and mass denial." 

Mendoza, of course, was just there for the finger food, and definitely not the ideology. 

The fundraisers come as Mendoza attempts to distance herself from her prior support for anti-police policies in her campaign against incumbent Republican congressman Juan Ciscomani in a district President Donald Trump carried narrowly in 2024. In 2020, when the comrade ran unsuccessfully for Arizona's State Senate, an audience member at a virtual town hall asked her whether she would "defund the police," to which she replied that she supports "the reallocation of funding" away from law enforcement. 

Reallocation. Such a gentle, non-threatening word for taking money from cops and giving it to someone else.

"Police reform is just one aspect of addressing systemic racism in our nation, and specifically here in Arizona," Mendoza said. "I support the reallocation of funding to programs that would allow people to live their best lives, such as the social service programs, such as housing, public education, health care, ensuring that we're addressing economic stability and environmental safety." 

In that same virtual town hall, Mendoza accused police officers of violating their "oath to protect and serve their communities" and appeared to justify the anti-police riots that swept the United States following George Floyd's death. "There are hundreds, hundreds of deaths at the hands—murders—at the hands of police brutality," she said. "And so what we're seeing right now from folks is we're seeing the demand for change through the protests, through the civil unrest. We are seeing that folks no longer trust law enforcement agencies who, by the way, have taken an oath to protect and serve their communities and have clearly violated that oath time and time again."

When Fox News reported on Mendoza's comments in March, her campaign lied that she "has been on the record for years that police need MORE resources to do their jobs, not less, including body cameras and training," adding that "she has repeatedly stated that she does not support defunding the police."

Mendoza also attempted to walk back her comments about the "reallocation of funding" several months following her initial remarks, saying during a different town hall that she did "not support defunding the police." The Arizona Police Association endorsed Ciscomani in May, not long after the "reallocation" video came to light. Apparently the cops can read. 

Policing is not the only area of inconsistency for Mendoza. Shortly after the Free Beacon reported that she had a net worth of up to $4.7 million, according to her 2025 financial disclosure, Mendoza issued a new financial disclosure claiming she is worth no more than $336,000. The new filing also revealed that she had concealed ownership of a rental property in Tucson worth between $250,000 and $500,000. 

This is how socialism works: those in power have the money while everyone else is equal . . .  equally poor.

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VP's husband's motorcade commandeers handicap spots at Whole Foods

It must have been a food emergency because we all know that high-ranking politicians and their spouses always put the needs of the public ahead of their own. In this case, our eloquent Vice President's husband, Doug Emhoff, along with his armed motorcade of Secret Service gas-guzzling vehicles, positioned those vehicles across several handicapped parking spaces while Doug shopped for food.

The hogging of the handicap parking spaces caused those with handicaps to have to park farther away from the Whole Foods and experience not only that inconvenience, but the concomitant pain they felt in their broken bodies as they made their way for the sustenance they so badly need.

Veteran shopping at Whole Foods had to park at far end of parking lot

The unmitigated thoughtlessness occurred at the tony supermarket in Brentwood, California where Emhoff diddybopped along the aisles of the store for a good 20 minutes before emerging with two paper [not plastic] bags of groceries.

The photo at the top of this post clearly shows the two aforementioned vehicles positioned diagonally over the parking spots designated for handicapped people and simply being married to a woman with a verbal handicap does not count as eligible to park in that space as they did on Wednesday of last week.

Pursuant to California Vehicle Code, “it is unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any vehicle in a stall or space designated for disabled persons and disabled veterans” unless they are displaying a special identification license plate or placard.

Of course, both Secret Service vehicles did not have the necessary handicap identification and had no justification to park in those spots.

A US Secret Service spokesman would not provide any details when asked for comment by The Post saying, “Due to the need to maintain operational security, the U.S. Secret Service does not comment on the means or methods used to conduct our protective operations.”

Uh huh. I'm sure they parked in the handicap spaces for security reasons. And if, for example, a few amputee veterans needed to park close to the store, well they would be happy to make yet another sacrifice for the nation.

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And while VP Harris has paid lip service to the handicap population, it's just words and they speak softer than actions, because talk is cheap.

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Long Island Muslima funneled money to ISIS via Bitcoin

A Brentwood Long Island woman, Zoobia Shanaz, 27, allegedly laundered tens of thousands of dollars via Bitcoin to support ISIS. 

Shanaz (pronounced "Schnoz") worked at a Manhattan hospital as a lab tech. She is charged with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering.

The U.S. Attorney's Office said that in June and July, Shanaz used no less than 16 credit cards in her name to buy more than $62,700 in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. She also is alleged to have obtained a $22,500 loan from a bank in Manhattan and all of the money was deposited into two separate bank accounts. She later wired the money to people in Pakistan, China and Turkey.

It's believed Shanaz used methods to avoid reporting requirements on transactions and to conceal her identity, source and destination of the illegally-obtained money.

Investigators said her efforts were intended to support the Islamic State, which she planned to join.

The court filing also stated:

"Specifically, the investigation has revealed that, during the time she was committing bank fraud and moving money overseas, the defendant accessed ISIS propaganda, violent jihad-related websites and message boards, and social media and messaging pages of known ISIS recruiters, facilitators and financiers. Additionally, the defendant conducted numerous internet searches for maps of and locations within ISIS-controlled territory in Syria, and attempted to locate information that would facilitate her entry into Syria."

According to prosecutors, Shanaz obtained a Pakistani passport, quit her job in June, but didn't inform her family. She booked a flight to Syria to leave NYC on July 31 and headed to the airport that day. Her family believed she was going to work. But she was planning to join ISIS.

She had a return ticket booked for September 4th, 2017, but she had no plan to return and only booked a return flight to appear less suspicious.

As the terrorist wannabe arrived for her flight at JFK Airport, agents intercepted her at the gate and questioned her. She gave them false and conflicting explanations about her overseas wire transfers. She had $9,500 in cash with her, which is just under the limit.

She was taken into custody and charged. She has no known prior criminal history.

Federal authorities said Shanaz obtained over $150,000 in illicit funds and made no attempt to pay back the credit cards used to buy Bitcoin.

"The defendant presents an irremediable flight risk and an extreme danger to the community," prosecutors said in the court papers. "Accordingly, she must be detained pending trial."

She sounds lovely.


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