New leader of deep-pocketed critical race theory group wants to defund the police

Originally Published on The Washington Examiner

The new leader of a liberal dark money pop-up group that plans to spend millions combating conservative efforts to push back against critical race theory in K-12 schools has frequently called for defunding the police.

Heather Harding announced Monday that she was appointed as executive director of the Campaign for Our Shared Future, a group that, despite being founded in May, claims to have already raised $9 million and has ambitious plans to organize efforts in 15 states to reverse anti-critical race theory policies in the 2022 and 2024 elections. Among the states targeted by the group include Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Harding, who previously worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, deleted over 2,500 tweets from her personal account in the week before she announced she would be taking the helm at Campaign for Our Shared Future, Fox News reported . But numerous tweets in which she railed against law enforcement survived the purge…