2026年4月9日 美国东部时间下午3:07 / 福克斯新闻
民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科因曾对警察说“我不想让你们在我的学校里执行纪律”而饱受批评
作者：彼得·皮内多 福克斯新闻
福克斯新闻独家报道： 得州民主党联邦参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科正在驳斥有关他支持削减警察经费的说法，称这是“彻头彻尾的谎言”。
共和党人正用塔拉里科2019年参加《特雷·布洛克秀》节目时的言论向他发难，当时他暗示，学校内警力过多却没有配备足够的心理健康专业人员，会助长“暴力文化”。
民主党人认为，他们有机会在数十年内首次将这个关键参议院席位收入囊中。但共和党希望通过突出塔拉里科更具争议的立场，破坏他的温和派形象，从而捍卫参议院多数席位。
最新被挖出的是2019年那次采访中的言论，塔拉里科在其中谴责了在学校增加警察 presence却不重视心理健康服务的计划。
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民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（左）因2019年发表的言论而饱受批评，他称学校内增加警力却不重视心理健康服务会助长“暴力文化”。（鲍勃·戴姆里奇/《得州论坛报》/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社；埃里克·盖伊/美联社照片）
“我们都担忧校园安全和近期的校园枪击事件，在某种程度上，这种担忧被徒劳地引导向了校园军事化，助长了暴力文化，并向校园内增加执法人员，”他说道。
作为一名前中学教师，塔拉里科介绍了他作为得州州议员时提出的第一项法案，该法案要求在学校内配备警察的同时，必须按比例配备心理健康工作者。他强调，“如果发生了犯罪、违反了法律或学生面临直接危险，我们当然希望执法人员出面处理”，但同时强调，“执法人员不应执行行为干预”。
共和党全国委员会发言人扎克·克拉夫特对此评论称，该法案是“詹姆斯·塔拉里科最钟爱的两件事的可怕结合”，他称这两件事是“削减警察经费和向孩子们推行他的觉醒议程”。
克拉夫特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“德克萨斯选民在投票箱前对塔拉里科的回应，将和他对警察的回应一样：‘我们不想让你们在这里’。”
塔拉里科因过往推文遭质问，推文指责白人传播种族主义“病毒”
得州民主党联邦参议院候选人、州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科（奥斯汀民主党人）在2026年3月4日周三于奥斯汀赢得民主党提名后首次发表讲话前挥手致意。（埃里克·盖伊/美联社）
不过，塔拉里科竞选团队的发言人JT·恩尼斯称这是“彻头彻尾的谎言”。
“詹姆斯反对削减警察经费，他有确凿的投票记录证明他曾拨款数十亿美元支持执法部门，”恩尼斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
在解释他在《特雷·布洛克秀》中提出的法案时，塔拉里科表示，该法案“直接针对学校到监狱的输送管道”，并“有望在安全与强化安保之间取得平衡——这是一些校园安全计划中提出的方案，而事实证明有效的方案是营造安全健康的校园氛围”。
“从教育部到特勤局，所有人都表示，预防校园枪击的最佳方式是与校园内的学生建立联系，而不是在校园周围筑起护城河，”他说。
他强调，警察“不应该为学生提供咨询”。
“他们没有接受过相关培训，也不应该这么做。他们本身的工作已经够艰难了，我们不应该给他们增加负担，”他继续说道，并补充道，“就像作为一名持证教育工作者，他们不会希望我开着警车在街上巡逻，你们也不会希望这样，而我也不想让你们在我的学校里执行纪律。”
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得州州检察长肯·帕克斯顿及其死对头、联邦参议员约翰·科宁（得州共和党人）将在得州进行 runoff 决选，将他们激烈的初选缠斗延长至5月下旬。（内森·波斯纳/阿纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社；照片由安娜·莫尼耶/盖蒂图片社拍摄）
尽管获得了两党部分支持，塔拉里科的法案还是在委员会中搁浅。如果获得通过并签署成为法律，该法案将要求学区为每5000名及以上学生的学区或学校配备一名执法人员的同时，配备四名心理健康专业人员。学生人数在5000到500名之间的学区和学校，每一名警察需配备三名心理健康工作者。学生人数不足500名的学区和学校，则需每一名执法人员配备两名心理健康工作者。
恩尼斯表示，该法案“通过增加迫切需要的心理健康工作人员来支持警察，帮助预防类似得州乌瓦尔德罗布小学大规模枪击事件的悲剧”。
塔拉里科在州政坛打拼多年后，最近一跃进入全国视野，在民主党联邦参议院提名竞选中爆冷击败知名候选人、众议员贾斯敏·克罗克特（得州民主党人）。获得提名后，他将在现任联邦参议员约翰·科宁（得州共和党人）和州检察长肯·帕克斯顿之间对决，具体取决于哪位候选人在5月的共和党初选决选中胜出。
尽管民主党人希望他能将该席位拿下，使该席位再次由民主党人担任，但塔拉里科的竞选一直因他过往的进步主义言论而饱受争议，其中包括声称“上帝是非二元性别的”。尽管如此，他在这场对两党争夺参议院多数席位都至关重要的参议院席位竞选中，仍处于有竞争力的位置。
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恩尼斯表示：“约翰·科宁、肯·帕克斯顿以及支持他们的亿万富翁们正利用校园枪击事件玩政治游戏，在资助执法部门和资助儿童心理健康资源之间制造虚假选择，而詹姆斯将继续站出来反对两党，修复这个破碎、腐败的政治体系。”
对此，科宁竞选团队的高级顾问马特·马科维亚克重申立场，告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“詹姆斯·塔拉里科是一名‘defund警察’激进分子，他想让我们的学校和街道变得更不安全。”
与此同时，马科维亚克表示，科宁“一直支持执法部门，并得到了得州最大的全州性执法组织的背书”。
福克斯新闻数字频道也联系了帕克斯顿的竞选团队置评。
彼得·皮内多是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治撰稿人。
Texas Dem Talarico’s ‘culture of violence’ remarks resurface as he denies defund police ties
April 9, 2026 3:07pm EDT / Fox News
Democrat James Talarico is taking heat for telling police, ‘I don’t want you in my school doing discipline’
By Peter Pinedo Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is pushing back on the idea that he supports defunding the police, calling it a “flat out lie.”
Republicans are confronting Talarico with resurfaced comments from a 2019 episode of the Trey Blocker Show, in which he suggests that a heavy police presence in schools without sufficient mental health professionals contributes to a “culture of violence.”
Democrats believe they have a shot at flipping the critical Senate seat blue for the first time in decades. But the GOP hopes to defend their Senate majority by highlighting Talarico’s more controversial stances to undermine his moderate appeal.
The latest to be unearthed is from the 2019 interview, in which Talarico decried plans to increase police officer presence in schools without also placing more emphasis on mental health.
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Democrat James Talarico (left) is taking heat for comments he made in 2019 suggesting increased police presence in school without enough emphasis on mental health contributes to a “culture of violence.”(Bob Daemmrich/The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Eric Gay/AP Photo)
“We’re all concerned about school safety and recent school shootings, and that concern, in some ways, has been channeled unproductively toward militarizing schools and toward kind of leaning into a culture of violence and adding more law enforcement officials into campuses,” he posited.
As a solution, Talarico, a former middle school teacher,touted the first bill he introduced as a member of the Texas House of Representatives, which would have mandated a set ratio of mental health workers for every police officer placed in a school. He stressed that “if a crime has been committed, a law has been broken or there’s an immediate danger to students, of course, we want our law enforcement officials to address it,” but emphasized that “law enforcement officials shouldn’t be conducting behavior interventions.”
Commenting on this, Republican National Committee spokesman Zach Kraft called the bill “a scary combination of two of James Talarico’s favorite things,” which he said are “defunding the police and pushing his woke agenda on kids.”
Kraft told Fox News Digital that “Texans will have the same answer for Talarico at the ballot box that he had for police, ‘we don’t want you here.’”
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Texas Democratic Senate candidate Texas state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, waves before speaking for the first time since winning the Democratic nomination in Austin, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (Eric Gay/AP)
However, JT Ennis, a spokesperson for Talarico’s campaign, called this a “flat-out lie.”
“James opposes defunding the police and has a proven track record voting to send billions of dollars to support law enforcement,” Ennis told Fox News Digital.
Explaining his bill on the Trey Blocker Show, Talarico said it “directly addresses the school-to-prison pipeline” and “hopefully will create a balance between security and hardening, which has been proposed in some of the proposed school safety plans, and what has been proven to be effective, which is creating a safe and healthy school climate.”
“Everybody from the Department of Education to Secret Service has said that’s the best way to prevent school shootings, is to have relationships with your students on campus, not to create a moat around your campus,” he said.
He stressed that police “shouldn’t be counseling students.”
“They’re not trained to do that, nor should they. They have a tough enough job on their own, and we shouldn’t be adding to their plate,” he went on, noting, “Just like, as a certified educator, they wouldn’t want me roaming the streets in a cruiser, you don’t want that, and I don’t want you in my school doing discipline.”
JAMES TALARICO’S PAST ANTI-MEAT STANCE GOES VIRAL, DRAWS REPUBLICAN FIRE FROM ACROSS TEXAS POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his bitter rival, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, are heading to a runoff in Texas, further extending their bloody primary battle until late May. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Despite some bipartisan support, Talarico’s bill stalled in committee. If passed and signed into law, the measure would have required school districts to hire four mental health professionals for every law enforcement official in districts or schools with an enrollment of 5,000 or more students. Districts and schools with between 5,000 and 500 students would have been required to have three mental health workers per police officer. Those with fewer than 500 students would need two mental health workers per law enforcement officer.
Ennis said the bill “supports the police by adding desperately needed mental health officials to help prevent tragic events like the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.”
Talarico was recently propelled to the national scene after years in state politics, culminating in a stunning upset victory for the Democratic Senate nomination over an established name, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas. With the nomination secured, he is set to face either incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, or state Attorney General Ken Paxton, depending on which candidate wins the May GOP primary runoff.
Though Democrats are hopeful he can flip the seat blue, Talarico’s campaign has been marked by intense controversy over his history of progressive statements, including claiming “God is nonbinary.” Despite this, he is running a competitive race for a Senate seat critical to both parties’ hopes of securing a majority in the upper chamber.
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Ennis said that “while John Cornyn, Ken Paxton, and the billionaires who prop them up play politics with school shootings by presenting a false choice between funding law enforcement and funding mental health resources for kids, James will continue standing up against both political parties to fix this broken, corrupt political system.”
In response, Matt Mackowiak, Cornyn’s campaign senior advisor, doubled down, telling Fox News Digital that “James Talarico is a ‘defund the police’ radical who wants to make our schools and our streets less safe.”
Meanwhile, Mackowiak said Cornyn “has always backed the blue and has been endorsed by the largest statewide law enforcement organizations in Texas.”
Fox News Digital also reached out to Paxton’s campaign for comment.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.