RFK Jr. VP Pick Nicole Shanahan a Leftist ‘Criminal Justice’ Advocate

Additionally, Shanahan has a history of supporting far-left “criminal justice” initiatives. In 2021, she revealed in san francisco magazine that she is “a major donor to Measure J in Los Angeles County.” Measure J would “amend county charters to require that at least 10% of locally generated unrestricted revenues be reinvested in community development and alternatives to incarceration.” according to In summary. It also “prohibits the use of funds for health care systems or law enforcement.”

Additionally, Shanahan said in the same interview that he believes the outcome of the situation could have been different if a mental health professional had been present at the scene of George Floyd’s arrest.

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Another key area of ​​investment is criminal justice reform, an area Shanahan has focused on for years, long before the Black Lives Matter movement. “I remember telling the president of the Sergei Foundation about five years ago that criminal justice reform was going to be one of the biggest themes of our generation,” she says. “I am pleased to be a major donor to Los Angeles County’s Measure J, which was voted into law and will direct a portion of our law enforcement budget to mental and social support services,” said Shanahan. He points out that if a mental health professional had been present at the scene of George Floyd’s arrest, the situation would have been de-escalated and perhaps his life would have been saved.

Charlie Kirk, a conservative and founder of Turning Point USA, also said that Shanahan was a “six-figure sum to George Gascón, the pro-crime, Soros-backed prosecutor who destroyed San Francisco and is currently destroying Los Angeles.” He pointed out that he was a donor.

He concluded that she was “a far-left handpicked by RFK who is clearly trying to shore up his progressive bona fides.”