DeSantis Didn't Just Suspend Soros-Funded Prosecutor, He Sent the Police to Evict Him from Office
Earlier this year, when New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul was frustrated with progressive Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — one of many criminal justice reformers whose campaigns were funded by billionaire financier and activist George Soros — she sat him down for a stern talking-to.
Part of the problem was that Bragg had made it clear he wasn’t going to enforce many of the city’s laws after his election in 2021, as City Journal’s Thomas Hogan noted.
“Who goes to jail on Bragg’s watch?” he wrote. “Virtually no one. The only people Bragg recommends for pretrial detention and later prison sentences are murderers, shooters who actually cause serious injuries — firing 50 shots down a crowded street won’t get you locked up if you don’t hit anybody — sex offenders, and perpetrators of specific offenses such as domestic violence or public corruption.”
Those kinds of Chesa Boudin-esque policies obviously scared the good burghers of Manhattan’s wealthier ZIP codes, and for good reason.
Thus, Hochul had a meeting with Bragg to remind him that she had the authority to remove lower office-holders like him and said her “highest priority is protecting the safety of New Yorkers.”
“I reiterated my belief that safety and justice must go hand-in-hand,” the governor said in a statement after the meeting.
A firm talking to. That’s what Alvin Bragg got for saying he wasn’t going to enforce the law.
Meanwhile, when a similarly Soros-funded prosecutor in Florida — Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren — announced he wasn’t going to be enforcing the law, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis didn’t just yank him from office, he had the police evict him.
What a difference a party makes.
On Thursday, DeSantis signed an executive order suspending Warren, whose county encompasses Tampa, citing “neglect of duty” and “incompetence.”
In his executive order, DeSantis noted the state attorney had enacted policies in which he would not prosecute “certain criminal violations, including trespassing at a business location, disorderly conduct, disorderly intoxication and prostitution.”
However, as CNN noted, Warren’s removal was precipitated by his refusal to enforce Florida’s laws forbidding abortion after 15 weeks and banning gender transitioning procedures on children.
And not only that, DeSantis dispatched law enforcement to evict the prosecutor.
DeSantis literally sent cops to evict the guy. pic.twitter.com/uVlhijlTkS
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) August 4, 2022
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