MI-06: Fred Upton campaign ad says Jon Hoadley voted to defund the police. That's not true.
A television ad from incumbent U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., attacks his Democratic challenger, state Rep. Jon Hoadley, for a vote he cast in June in Michigan’s House.
“Hoadley voted against law enforcement, siding with defund the police, making families less safe,” the narrator in the ad claims.
The ad features Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey, who claims that “what Hoadley did to vote to defund the police was wrong.”
But Hoadley didn’t vote to defund the police.
Upton’s ad cites Hoadley’s June 17 vote against a resolution adopted by the Michigan House that discourages local governments in Michigan from defunding or abolishing their local police departments. Resolutions offer the Legislature a way to state its priorities, but they are nonbinding.
he resolution did not propose to increase or decrease funding for local police departments, whose budgets are determined at the local level.
Bailey stands by his claim that Hoadley voted to defund the police. “It is concerning when Jon Hoadley — who sits on the Appropriations Committee — talks about how frustrating it is that ‘everything but police got cut’ or how important it is to discuss ‘reprioritizing parts of our budget.’ Then, just weeks later, he chooses to vote against a resolution that discourages local governments from defunding or abolishing their police departments,” Bailey said in a statement to PolitiFact Michigan.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/28/fred-upton-ad-jon-hoadley-defund-the-police/3563260001/
