Posted on 04/23/2019 8:48:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For cripes sake, if you’re going to waffle your way through an answer to this question, at least serve up a tastier waffle than a trite, vaguely condescending dismissal about having a national “conversation.” In fact, don’t waffle at all: You should be able to formulate a firm position on whether incarcerated felons should retain their voting rights or not. Join Team Bernie in the conviction that voting is a sacred privilege of citizenship and prisoners remain citizens no matter how evil their actions. Or join Team Buttigieg in the belief that choosing to plant bombs in a crowd means you forfeit certain civil rights, like getting to choose the next leader of the free world.
Or at least muddle through with some compromise position in which nonviolent felons get to vote but the violent don’t.
Harris has a special problem in answering questions about prisoner rights, though, because she’s a former prosecutor, which is both an asset and a liability to her. It’s an asset among centrist Dems and potentially in the general election; you can imagine some “return to law and order” pitch at Trump’s expense. But it’s a liability to progressives who want to hear contrition from her for, among other things, locking up nonviolent drug offenders. However she answered on the Boston bomber question would have been treated as a small proxy for that — if she’s Team Bernie then she’s pissing away her tough-on-crime cred but if she’s Team Buttigieg then clearly she hasn’t made as much “progress” on how to treat convicts as she claims. As you’ll see, she shrewdly used the question to emphasize her commitment to voting rights generally, which you would think would have given her enough cover to say, “But Bernie’s wrong in this case.” The fact that she decided to punt shows you how insecure she is about her record as California’s AG vis-a-vis the left.
Says Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was murdered in the Parkland massacre, “Should my daughter’s murderer be allowed to keep the rights that she’ll never have?” Maybe CNN can ask her that one next time she’s on.
In a better world she would have said what she really feels, which is that Bernie must have a head injury to insist on making terrorist voting rights a hot topic in the Democratic primary. But that’s his blessing and curse as a politician, that he seems to feel obliged to state his honest opinion when asked a policy question even when it’s a gift-wrapped Election Day present for Trump.
Two clips here, one of her answer on prisoners voting, the other of her answer on gun control. Jazz mentioned the latter earlier but you should watch the clip to see how far Harris goes. She talks about issuing an ultimatum to Congress to do what she wants on gun-grabbing or else she’ll do it via executive order. That’s a direct descendant of Obama suddenly deciding after five years in office that he could grant temporary amnesty to DREAMers because Congress wouldn’t act legislatively and Trump deciding after two years in office that he could appropriate funding for the border wall via emergency declaration because Congress wouldn’t give it to him. We have presidential candidates, credible ones, openly vowing to dictate to the national legislature what U.S. policy will be and expecting — correctly — that that’ll appeal to voters in what’s supposed to be a republic. It’s a nightmare in the making.
Kamala Harris: “We should have that conversation” about allowing the Boston Marathon bomber to vote from prison. pic.twitter.com/TOqIlKYuQY
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) April 23, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says she wants to ban “assault weapons,” which means all semi-automatic firearms
Harris says she “will give” Congress 100 days to pass radical gun control laws or else she will use executive action to ram through her agenda pic.twitter.com/Ly8dpQisld
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 23, 2019
The answer is HELL NO, YOU LUNATIC PSYCHO INELIGIBLE BITCH!
Conversation over.
How many queens do they have in utopia anyway.
I wonder which way he’ll vote?
Kamala, lets have a conversation about you failing to fund rape ID kits for DNA to identify rapists, while you were the AG of California:
“Kamala Harris protected a lot rapists while serving as California’s AG!”
“Unprocessed DNA/ID rape kits in California while Kamala was the state AG!”
If she had done her job as our state AG, there would not be hundreds if not thousands of DNA/ID rape Kits not processed due to quote lack of funding.
Maybe some females in California and the nation can bring this scandal forward after Kamala conveniently forgot about them.
CA ‘DNA/ID’ backlog under fire Capitol Weekly | Capitol Weekly ...
capitol weekly.net/rape-kit-backlog-under-fire/
Apr 11, 2018 - Thousands of California women who said they were raped gave ... But many of the DNA/ID rape kits were not examined in a timely way, caught in a ...
No one knows how many untested DNA/ID rape kits there are in California ...
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-rape-kits-legislation-20170525-story.html
May 26, 2017 - Assembly Bill 41 would require law enforcement agencies to report to the state how many sexual assault DNA/ID kits they collected and have examined ...
The unconscionable backlog of unprocessed rape kits in California ...
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-rape-kits-20180521-story.html
May 21, 2018 - The DNA/ID rape kit backlog is, unfortunately, not a new problem, though ... that the procedure will further the investigation, not just add to a collection of ...
Destroyed: How the trashing of DNA/ID rape kits failed victims and jeopardizes ...
www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/11/investigates/police-destroyed-rapekits/index.html
Nov 29, 2018 - Where police did not redact that information, CNN did, including the full names of ... A CNN investigation into the destruction of DNA/ID rape kits in dozens of agencies ..... of Prosecuting Attorneys and a career California prosecutor.
‘Disturbing’ DNA/ID rape kit investigation prompts action - CNN - CNN.com
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/health/ DNA/ID rape-kits-destroyed-reaction.../index.html
Dec 5, 2018 - A CNN investigation prompts officials to tell police: Do not destroy rape kits.
For someone who’s taken an oath to uphold, support, and defend the Constitution throughout her professional career, 2020 Democratic presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris tends to, in the words of constitutionalist and talk host Mark Levin, “treat it like a smorgasbord,” picking the parts she likes and ignoring the parts she doesn’t.
Like not funding to process/id maybe thousands of Rape Kits in California while serving as the state’s highest ranking law enforcement person, the state’s former AG, Kamala!
...and Charlie Manson
“We should have that conversation”
How to move your lips and not actually say anything. Doesn’t fly in the Trump era.
She’s right, let’s have that conversation. Let demonicrat Kamikaze suicide dive begin, have the people speak.
No, he can’t vote. Don’t know what her next suggestion is but put me down for the opposite of what she proposes.
How about a conversation about throwing women out of politics who sleep their way into politics?
One sick b****. You know how many people you hurt even talking like that?
Ah , information Obama got from the Russians he just ignored
Hi Kamala; are you kidding right now, or what?
Maybe the rumors are true. Maybe Al Sharpton really is your campaign manager!
Kamala Harris has about as much chance of becoming POTUS, as I do...which is “ZERO CHANCE”. Case closed!!! Her poll numbers are in the cellar!!!
Let’s have a conversation about unborn children voting. They’re our future, after all.
Let’s a conversation about people in China and Brazil voting. US elections have tremendous consequences on their lives, so it’s only fair.
Repeat for pets, amoebas, etc.
Three Nationality Harris is not a natural born citizen.
Natural born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they have only ONE nationality.
Just when you think they can’t get any lower.
I don’t even think this would fly in ultra lib MA.
Let’s Have A Conversation About Putting Kamala Harris In The Cell Next To The Boston Marathon Bomber.
If she becomes a real threat or actually becomes president the civil war will go kinetic.
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