The hypocrisy of politicians who advocate for gun control for the little people knows no bounds. Case in point: Cori Bush, the rabidly anti-gun Missouri Congresscritter who wants to defund the police to make life more dangerous for her constituents while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for her own private, armed security.
Recently, Cori Bush tied the knot in a private marriage ceremony. Did she pick a scrawny like-minded pacifist who eschews firearms like David Hogg? Hardly.
Instead, Bush married a member of her private security detail– someone who was/is on her payroll — named Courtney Merritts. A man who likely carries a firearm everyday for his “job” even though he wasn’t properly licensed in Missouri.
I’m rarely speechless on here. But last night…. Being at the White House for the Holiday Ball and seeing history everywhere you turned. Just an amazing experience. pic.twitter.com/1SqIqwnK8w
— Cortney Merritts (@CortneyMerritt4) December 6, 2022
From the Daily Mail . . .
A watchdog has demanded the Federal Election Commission (FEC) investigate the $62,000 Rep. Cori Bush paid her now-husband as a security guard from her campaign account.
The nonpartisan Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) asked FEC acting general counsel Lisa Stevenson to look into whether Squad member and BLM activist Bush ‘used campaign funds for personal use.’
It was recently revealed that Bush, R-Mo., married Cortney Merritts in a private ceremony last month. Last year he was on the payroll of her re-election campaign.
‘It appears Rep. Bush’s campaign may have made payments for services that were unnecessary or above fair market value because of her personal relationship with the payee,’ FACT executive director Kendra Arnold said in the complaint…
Merritts was paid as Bush’s security guard despite not having a license – which is required by the St. Louis Police Department, according to a Fox News report. Merritts was reportedly also not licensed for security in Washington, D.C.
Bush, 46, is back in the spotlight after in 2021 she took heat for spending $500,000 on private security despite her impassioned pleas to ‘defund the police…’
Bush’s campaign paid Merritts 24 bi-weekly installments of $2,500 in 2022 for security services. It paid another $250,000 to PEACE Security, a St. Louis-based firm, and $50,000 to a Nathaniel Davis, according to FEC records…
‘Both the fact that reportedly Bush’s husband isn’t licensed to provide security services for which he was paid, and that she was simultaneously paying large amounts to another company for the same services raise red flags that warrant an investigation by the FEC,’ she added.
Bush is not the first ‘Squad’ member to hire her husband – Rep. Ilhan Omar funneled $2.9 million to a consulting firm run by her husband in 2021, which amounted to 80 percent of the company’s revenue.
Nice work if you can get it. Bush continues to advocate that her constituents be disarmed and that their police protection be removed…all while spending six figures on her own armed security and funneling campaign cash to her now-husband.