Posted on 02/13/2016 5:57:24 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
(CNN)It was looking like a massive bipartisan consensus for criminal justice reform had stalled and was unlikely to happen this year.
That was, until a superstar singer gave bipartisan reform advocates a huge boost.
In a sultry Valentine's Day themed video, Alicia Keys urged House Speaker Paul Ryan to show "love and compassion" by scheduling a vote on justice reforms. She also encouraged millions of her fans and supporters to send their own messages to the speaker of the U.S. House.
The Grammy-award winner's campaign (part of the We Are Here Movement she founded two years ago), in partnership with #cut50 (my bipartisan justice reform initiative), aims to bring much-needed attention to our overcrowded federal prisons.
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Mitch McC and Ryan aren’t just easily misled: they are liberals slowly leaping out of the closet for all to see.
Addressing the overcrowded prison system “problem” will require addressing the inner city negro crime problem that is what has increased the demand for prison space for the last five decades.
Getting to the bottom of the fatherless boys issue will be painfully vote robbing for progressives, as in “We ain’t going there” because that would take true bipartisanship, not just the usual capitulation of the GOPe to whatever “solution” the left comes up with.
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously”
Robert A. Heinlein
And also start using chain gangs again. Hard work in the outdoors should lift the spirits of all those violent cons who are just itching to be rehabilitated. (smirk)
True dat. As talented as Alicai Keys is doesn’t make her political opinion noteworthy. Same for Babs Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Steven Spielberg, ad nauseam not to mention those who have been IN OFFICE like Jesse Ventura, Al Franken, etc. but somehow self important world changing jernolists manage to poke a mic in their faces and we must contend with blithering idiocy.
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