CNN’s K-File: James Talarico Campaigned Against Ballot Initiative to Fund Austin’s Police Dept.

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KACZYNSKI: “Community that champions educational equity, economic opportunity and comments weren‘t limited to 2020. A year later, Talarico campaigned against Austin‘s proposition eight, a ballot measure that would have required the city to maintain at least two police officers for every 1000 residents and hire hundreds of additional officers. Talarico urged voters to reject it, arguing that, quote, true public safety required investment in communities. Austin voters ultimately rejected the measure, and then in 2022, he made an even more explicit argument about where public money should go, saying in one quote, if we took just half of what we spent on war, prisons and policing and spent