{"id":313214,"date":"2019-06-21T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=313214"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:51:26","slug":"fresno-moves-forward-with-plan-to-pay-gangstas-to-transition-from-gang-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/21\/fresno-moves-forward-with-plan-to-pay-gangstas-to-transition-from-gang-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Moves Forward with Plan to Pay for &#8220;Transition from Gang Lifestyle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/06\/20\/defining-deviancy-down-in-fresno\/\">A couple days ago we told you that Fresno, California, was contemplating a plan to offer stipends<\/a> &#8212; cash money, as the Reverend Sharpton says, &#8220;Cash money!&#8221; &#8212; to gang leaders and gang members not to pull the trigger. Well, they voted, and they have &#8220;decided to move forward with the funding initiative program for gang members.&#8221; &#8220;The city of Fresno is moving forward toward funding an incentive program for gang members, in an effort to curb gang violence in the city. The program is called Advanced Peace&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/fresno-city-council-votes-to-move-forward-toward-funding-incentive-program-for-gang-members\/\">(chuckling) Advanced Peace.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-302643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031519-California-Sign-RUSH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031519-California-Sign-RUSH.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031519-California-Sign-RUSH-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It &#8220;would offer gang members [money, cash money] and incentives to abandon the lifestyle. The council agreed to fund $200,000 dollars, a portion of the funding needed to start the program, on Thursday. It passed the council in a 3-2 vote. Esmaralda Soria was not there and did not vote.&#8221; It says here, &#8220;The program is causing heated debate. Those against it say gang members shouldn\u2019t be paid to put down their weapons, and those in favor say that\u2019s not what the program is about &#8212; but rather supporting their transition out of the gang lifestyle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(chuckling) &#8220;[S]upporting their transition out of the gang lifestyle!&#8221; If this works, we could pay the mullahs! Oh, we already did that. We could pay the mullahs of Iran to give up Islam. Ah, we already did that. We gave \u2019em $1.6 billion in cash money on the tarmac! (laughing) We\u2019re not paying \u2019em not to fire their guns. We\u2019re paying them to begin the &#8220;transition&#8221; out of the &#8220;lifestyle. &#8216;As bad as you think it is to lose your child, if it ever happens, you realize it\u2019s ten times worse than you could ever imagine,\u2019 said community organizer and advocate for the program Aaron Foster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foster lost not one, but two of his children to gang violence, both Memorial Day weekends four years apart. &#8230; &#8216;They both got shot in the back of the head but his body was a lot easier to look at because the bullet didn\u2019t exit. With my baby, I\u2019m shell shocked forever,\u2019 said Foster.&#8221; So they want to pay people to stop doing this. Well, no, no, no, no. We\u2019re not paying \u2019em to stop doing it. We\u2019re paying \u2019em to &#8220;transition &#8230; out of the lifestyle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  Well, they voted, and they have &quot;decided to move forward with the funding initiative program for gang members.&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":302643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fresno Moves Forward with Plan to Pay for &quot;Transition from Gang Lifestyle&quot; - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/21\/fresno-moves-forward-with-plan-to-pay-gangstas-to-transition-from-gang-lifestyle\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Fresno Moves Forward with Plan to Pay for &quot;Transition from Gang Lifestyle&quot; - 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