Democrats request money while consoling after Minneapolis deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers, congressional candidates, and advocacy organizations have tied fundraising pleas to messages about the deaths of anti-immigration activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti, a Washington Examiner review of campaign emails has found.

Democrats who included fundraising pleas in emails regarding the killings of Good and Pretti included Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, the Arizona Democratic Party, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, and congressional candidate Bushra Amiwala of Illinois. Organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, among them MoveOn, Mark Elias’s Democracy Docket, and Indivisible, also used the deaths to encourage their supporters to give them money. Both Good and Pretti died this month after confrontations with federal officials while obstructing immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis.

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