Does Scott Shellenberger Support ICE? Analyzing The Working Families Party PAC’s Claims
An expensive out-of-state political machine just dropped another round of glossy mailers into our Baltimore County mailboxes. The Working Families Party PAC operates out of a high-rise office at 77 Sands Street in Brooklyn New York. This coastal group is funded through national billionaire donor networks to meddle in our local democratic process. Names like Netflix billionaire Reed Hastings’ wife Patty Quillin and Levi Strauss heiress Rachel Gelman are listed on FEC filings. Dark money is shoveled to The Working Families Party PAC via a 501(c)(4) filed “non-profit” called the Working Families Organization, Inc.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officially labels these entities as “social welfare” organizations. The tax code designs them to help the community through civic betterment and neighborhood projects. Federal tax laws protect donor anonymity for these specific non-profits, who then give money to their own PACs. Unlike standard political action committees, which must report every single donor name to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), a 501(c)(4) group holds no legal obligation to tell the public who gives them cash.
Isn’t that a lovely loophole in election law? This all became completely legal under the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The real motive behind these flyers, in my opinion? Shellenberger is a traditional tough-nosed prosecutor who usually seeks maximum penalties for heinous crimes. In the sheltered billionaires’ world view, maximum prison sentences for rapists, murderers and child abusers do not protect the working class; they simply contribute to “mass incarceration.”
Make no mistake, these capitalist funded “non-profits” are using a cheap but effective marketing trick. Tie a traditional, letter-of-the-law prosecutor to Donald Trump’s deportations in order to spook progressive voters into replacing a veteran prosecutor with an activist who will refuse to enforce the law.
Meanwhile, the elite class billionaires are unaffected by activist prosecutors because they live in secured mansions. They never have to deal with the violent fallout when a child predator gets released back into a working-class neighborhood. They don’t have to compete in the labor market with immigrants. Their children are educated in highly secured private schools that have strict population limits, unlike overcrowded violent and distracted public schools.
The Working Families Party PAC’s latest multi-thousand-dollar campaign targets Baltimore County State’s Attorney Scott Shellenberger ahead of the June 23 primary election. They count on regular working people being too exhausted by a skyrocketing cost of living to investigate their claims.
The biggest scam on these flyers involves the total absence of a real alternative candidate. This Brooklyn-based PAC spends massive amounts of cash just telling people to vote “no” on the incumbent. They completely hide the names of the actual challengers running for the office. This tactical blackout leaves voters stranded at the ballot box because a primary election requires a positive choice for a real person. The out-of-state operatives want to hollow out our local justice system without taking responsibility for whoever fills the executive vacuum.
The first flyer weaponizes a Fox 45 News report from July 19 2024 to manufacture unearned outrage. The New York handlers cite a quote about Shellenberger making a phone call to immigration officials. The primary-source material exposes their deep intellectual dishonesty. The case involved a dangerous child sex predator who stood to walk free into Baltimore County neighborhoods due to soft sentencing guidelines. Shellenberger used federal law enforcement coordination as a final line of defense to deport the monster. The PAC stripped this horrifying criminal context out of the narrative because protecting children ruins their open-border agenda.
The second mailer features a dramatic red-carpet graphic and points to a Baltimore Banner report from December 23 2024. The out-of-state group claims Shellenberger went behind the backs of local officials to ignore county anti-cooperation rules. They also claim he backed a pro-ICE candidate for County Executive based on data from the Maryland Campaign Reporting Information System. The PAC changed their search access date to April 30 2026 but they still refuse to publish the name of the candidate or the transaction ID. They use official-sounding footnotes to launder political gossip through a state database containing hundreds of thousands of blind entries.
First, let’s address some of the claims:
Claim 1: “Supported a County Executive candidate who wanted to expand cooperation with ICE”
The Scam: The people who made this flyer still refuse to print the actual name of the candidate Shellenberger allegedly backed. By citing a specific Baltimore Banner date alongside the campaign finance portal, they create a fake trail of breadcrumbs. They know damn well that 99% of people won’t spend their nights or weekends digging through old articles or tracking down disclosure filings. Leaving the name blank lets them run a generic guilt-by-association play, allowing the voter’s brain to insert whatever political villain they already hate into that slot.
Claim 2: “Wants to use ICE and deportation to fix public safety”
The Scam: Once again, the PAC are reusing the exact same quote from the first mailer but twisting the context to make it sound like an obsessive fixation. A State’s Attorney handles state criminal prosecutions. They do not have the legal authority to deport anyone. Shellenberger’s point in the original interview focused on how notifying federal immigration authorities about non-citizen violent offenders or child predators keeps them from getting released right back onto local streets. The PAC spins basic public safety coordination into a cartoonish narrative where a prosecutor relies on deportation as a fix-all tool for local crime.
Claim 3: “Went behind the backs of local officials to work with ICE, ignoring county policy”
The Scam: This represents the most malicious lie on the page because it relies on the public’s ignorance of basic constitutional law. Baltimore County has internal administrative policies regulating how county police and correctional facilities handle non-judicial ICE detainers.
But here’s the reality: the State’s Attorney is a constitutionally independent officer elected by the people. He does not answer to the County Executive, he doesn’t report to the County Council and he isn’t bound by local agency guidelines. He answers directly to state law and the federal constitution.
Communicating with federal law enforcement isn’t “going behind the backs” of local bureaucrats. It’s an independent official exercising legal authority that the county machine has absolutely zero right to restrict! The PAC frames a foundational constitutional separation of powers as a shady backdoor betrayal. They’re liars and they are lucky that The Baltimore Informer doesn’t have thousands of dollars to burn like they do to counter the lies. We do have hundreds of dollars to pay for web hosting, electricity, computers and an internet subscription, thus this article exists!
Now, let’s get to other matters of the law.
Sanctuary policies put local government workers in extreme legal jeopardy. Under Title 8 U.S.C. Section 1324, concealing, harboring or shielding an illegal alien from detection constitutes a federal felony. Local politicians who command County employees to ignore federal warrants face real prison sentences, not simple administrative fines. The Baltimore County Council cannot rewrite the United States Code to satisfy out-of-state political bosses.
Every Baltimore County reader and voter is encouraged to research the State’s Attorney candidates very carefully. They along with the Baltimore County Police keep our neighborhoods safe. Don’t just take my word for it…but do question why these attack flyers are landing in our mailboxes. Actions speak louder than words.
I may not be Shellenberger’s biggest fan due to civil asset forfeit issues stemming from a 2011 case, but the man does takes serious crimes like murder seriously. That’s what matters most. If you compare how Baltimore County handles those cases to Baltimore City, it’s night and day. See sources below for more information. Don’t let some random deep-pocketed New York City residents control our Baltimore County elections!
