Posted on 12/19/2013 6:24:10 PM PST by massmike
Obama on Thursday granted a rare commutation to the first cousin of Governor Deval Patrick, allowing the release of a man who in 1994 was given a life sentence on charges of dealing crack cocaine.
Patrick said that he does not recall ever meeting his first cousin Reynolds Allen Wintersmith Jr., 39 of Rockford, Ill., and had no involvement in his application for clemency, which has been a cause of national advocates for years and has been featured in the national media.
“There’s a significant age gap between the two and the governor has no recollection of having met Mr. Wintersmith,” said Patrick’s spokeswoman Jesse Mermell. “Governor Patrick had no involvement in any application for a commutation of Mr. Wintersmith.”
He was aware of Wintersmith’s imprisonment, she said, but did not know the specifics of his case or the request for a commutation.
Patrick, who declined requests for an interview, has a close relationship with President Obama, dining with him at the White House and Martha’s Vineyard. Mermell said the White House did not alert the governor about the commutation, and that Patrick learned of it only through the news media.
A White House spokesman would not say whether Obama knew that Wintersmith was related to Patrick when he signed off on the commutation.
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I find it hard to believe that
crack cocaine is 1000X worse than powder cocaine,
and people that claim it is,
look to me to be either liars or idiots.
Clearly, birds of a... uh... feather flock together.
So what happeneds to all the other brothers who are in jail for the same or lesser crimes? Seems to me your president is not playing fair when it comes to his bros
This certainly explains the pardon. It was not just Obama’s fondness for drugs. The other seven were nothing but cover for this guy.
How many people do you know who never met their first cousin? Deval and Barack are long-time political buddies who used to exchange campaign speeches.
The first of many.
These”People”seem to suffer from the same malady as The KlinToons:”Selective Memory-Loss”????????????????
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