J. Marc Wheat
Role at the time: General counsel, Advancing American Freedom (op-ed co-authored with research assistant Davison Drumm)
Statement summary
Advancing American Freedom's J. Marc Wheat and Davison Drumm wrote in a Washington Examiner op-ed that New York City official Cea Weaver has said she would like to "seize private property" and that she claimed homeownership "is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy." They present her as an example of Democratic Socialists of America disdain for private property and argue that the Supreme Court should restore property rights.
“The DSA, exemplified by Weaver, has not been shy in its disdain for private property and "ESPECIALLY homeownership," which she claimed "is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as 'wealth building' public policy."”
Washington Examiner op-ed by AAF general counsel J. Marc Wheat and research assistant Davison Drumm, citing Cea Weaver's remarks as evidence for a broader argument about property rights.
Why we used this label
Wheat and Drumm present Weaver's remarks as an example of Democratic Socialists of America disdain for private property and criticize those remarks as part of a broader property-rights argument.