Posted on 10/17/2014 5:23:41 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Sex offenders at a treatment center in northern Minnesota, fed up with political gridlock over their controversial program, are taking matters into their own hands: They are running for elected office.
For the last three months, a group of sex offenders has quietly run a voter-registration drive up and down the hallways of the prisonlike treatment center in Moose Lake, where about 460 convicted rapists, pedophiles and other offenders are locked away indefinitely behind razor wire.
Some 155 are now registered to vote — amounting to nearly 20 percent of all voters registered in Moose Lake.
Their goal is to elect sex offenders to as many as eight city and county offices, where they can push for more freedoms and reintegration into the community. Among their demands, the offenders want the right to leave the facility without shackles and handcuffs; and for the city of Moose Lake to allow for halfway houses for offenders who progress in treatment for their sexual disorders.
“The Holy Grail is to get outside the razor wire,” said Ben Alverson, a leader of the get-out-the-vote drive. “We want to demonstrate to the world that we’re not monsters and can live in the community.”
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This is an area of law that I don’t understand, but I know in Missouri we have cases that are similar, the people aren’t ever getting out.
Maybe they should start their own party. They could call it the pervertocrats.
What would their logo be? An elephant riding a donkey?
They already have their own party and the jackass is their logo.
Mel Reynolds is their presidential candidate.
Object lesson in the distinction between a democracy and a republic.
Well, if you can believe the feminists, all men are rapists and should be locked up. So perhaps the sex offenders party just might take off....
You can’t make this s*** up, even as the jokes are busily writing themselves.
Kerry Gauthier should be their party head
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/08/rep_kerry_gauthier_says_hes_running_for_reelection_despite_rest-stop_sex_scandalrep_kerry_gauth.php
Someone needs to tell these folks that Minnesota prohibits “Inmates, Parolees, & Probationers” from voting as the map on this website:
http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/02/26/felon-voting
Maine and Vermont are the only states that allow felons to vote in prison. In Maine they cannot use the prison address as their voting addresss. They use the municpality they came from (and presumably intend to return).
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