Dem House Candidate Fundraises With Groups That Called To Defund Police While Saying She Doesn't Support Defunding Police
The fundraisers came as Arizona's JoAnna Mendoza attempted to distance herself from comments she made in 2020 calling for a 'reallocation of funding' from cops
Zach Kessel
July 14, 2026
The presumptive Democratic nominee in Arizona's Sixth Congressional District, JoAnna Mendoza, is attempting to distance herself from her past comments calling to defund police. At the same time, she's holding fundraisers with far-left groups that have called to defund police, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
On Friday, for example, Mendoza headlined a big-ticket fundraiser in Los Angeles's affluent Brentwood neighborhood, cohosted by the Heart of LA Democratic Club. The club, which describes its mission as "championing feminist leadership and women's full representation in politics and policy," repeatedly backed the Defund the Police movement. In a since-deleted June 2020 tweet, it praised the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter's "compelling presentation to LA City Council on defunding the police" as "a big step towards progress." The club backed a bill to defund police around the same time, and one of its officers, Sarah Kate Levy, said she "see
clearly the need to defund."
Months earlier, in January, Mendoza held another Brentwood fundraiser with the Los Angeles-based Stonewall Democratic Club, which signed a 2020 letter calling for the "divestment of public funding from police" and a resolution calling for "budget reallocation" from police departments "to programs that end systemic, abusive, and unlawful use of lethal force on Black and Brown People." The move, the group said, was about joining "the struggle to end white supremacy, institutional racism, individual bigotry, and mass denial."
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