POAM Endorses Trump’s Vice President Candidate JD Vance
On Wednesday, August 7, 2024, the Shelby Township Police Department hosted a closed press conference for JD Vance, vice president candidate for Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, during the 2024 Presidential Election.
Vance’s Background
Vance has been serving as Ohio’s Senator since 2023 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, Vance served our nation in the Iraq War, then graduated from The Ohio State University and Yale Law School. He wrote a bestselling book, Hillbilly Elegy, which was turned into a Netflix movie. He also started a business dedicated to growing jobs and opportunities in the American heartland.
Watch the video below to hear POAM’s president speak on the reason for their endorsement. The video is sourced from C-SPAN.
Video Transcript from POAM President Tignanelli’s Speech
We represent 12,000 law enforcement personnel on both peninsulas and feel like we are in a position to speak for a majority of those who work that job.
Although the democratic candidate for president has not set as much, it is common for all candidates to claim an allegiance to law enforcement and public safety at election time. The truth is, it is what you say and do between elections that say and matter to us. We got the opportunity to see what President Trump did as president and his choice here in J.D. Vance and no that the other choice is not an option.
The open borders that began in January 2021 changed a number of illegal aliens entering the country from 300,000 a year to 300,000 a month at the beginning of 2023 — 3 million a year.
The Trump Administration had taken steps to limit those illegal entries by 500 miles of wall which the Biden and Harris Administration knocked down portions of and left the materials laying on the road to rot. And then the State of Texas trying to build a very to protect their own border.
The best efforts of the best in law enforcement are failing. We have had three officers shot this year and they were not in gunfights. This was not an armed robbery. These were traffic cops and not guys on hole-string guns when they were murdered. They were murders. Shelby Township has been touched by illegal aliens, and you have heard some of those examples.
When people are allowed to enter the country illegally without consequence and maybe be rewarded for it, it leads some citizens who are here legally to think that type of behavior is ok. Nobody surrenders anymore; these cases we run into are not all illegals but they are learning from the illegals. No one surrenders. 70,000 police officers were assaulted last year, physically assaulted. 360 were shot but not killed, and 160 were shot to death just in the last year. That is not right.
There should be no excuse for that. Eligible candidates for this job are getting more and more difficult to find. We have a great candidate for president. We know that because he served as president for four years. We were more prosperous and safer when he was here. He has chosen J.D. Vance for his candidate for vice president, and every day, we hear more things to convince us how much better it will be with JD Vance in the chair with President Trump.
The Police Officers Association of Michigan (POAM) is here today to say are members of 75 different counties wholeheartedly endorse the Trump-Vance ticket and are proud to do so. We need you to win.