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Tom Ridge is a Republican.
He is also a former member of the US Congress, a former governor of the state of Pennsylvania, and he was George W. Bush's first director of the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of 9/11.
Thus, in no way can Ridge be easily tarred-and-feathered by the screamers as a Surrender-Crat.
This is what he had to say about Donald Trump sending sending secret police, under the banner of Homeland Security and against the wishes of State and local officials, into Portland Oregon:
The nation’s first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security had sharp words for his former agency Tuesday, condemning the Trump administration’s decision to send federal officers into the streets of Portland, Ore. to quell protests, saying it was “counterproductive,” and that it was not the agency’s mission to act as domestic law enforcement.
“The department was established to protect America from the ever-present threat of global terrorism. It was not established to be the president’s personal militia,” ex-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said during an interview with Sirius XM host Michael Smerconish.
Ridge, the former two-term Republican Pennsylvania governor, who was tapped by President George W. Bush to lead the domestic security agency two decades ago, said “it would be a cold day in hell before I would consent to an uninvited, unilateral intervention into one of my cities.”...
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Meanwhile, via the NY Times' Mike Baker's excellent on-the-ground reporting in Portland last night....
Feds are out in force now after a fire on the facade of the building pic.twitter.com/SGLdWlZV88— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 22, 2020
How can anyone possibly think that this action is not meant to create chaos that will justify a further, even more vicious clampdown?
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