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Jesse Jackson: States Are ‘Undermining the Right to Vote' With For-Profit Prisons
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| 01/27/2015
| Eric Scheiner
Posted on 01/27/2015 5:46:30 PM PST by Rusty0604
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Public employee unions hate privately run prisons because they lose union dues and the taxpayers save money. Sounds like Jesse is trying to get money and votes from them.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:46:30 PM PST
by
Rusty0604
To: Rusty0604
...because once youve been to jail its more difficult to vote...
Um, doesn't it depend whether or not you've been convicted of a felony that means you can't vote? I don't think jail has anything to do with it, does it? I could be wrong.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:50:57 PM PST
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: Rusty0604
Isn’t Jessy Jackson’s son in prison?
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:51:22 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Veggie Todd
He can’t be bothered with facts.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:52:38 PM PST
by
Rusty0604
To: Rusty0604
Government-run anything is inevitably a debacle. Private enterprise does it best in all cases with the exception of the military. But under the hussein regime, even America's once-proud military has been destroyed due to the mooselimb outreach and sodomite agenda. In any case, America's for-profit prisons are the very best in the world.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:54:26 PM PST
by
re_nortex
(DP - that's what I like about Texas)
To: Rusty0604
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:56:08 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Rusty0604
Jackson and Sharpton are like parasitic fleas on a dog. The fact that these two bottom-feeders are still pandered to by the DemocRats, says much about the them all.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:58:12 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
(Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
To: Rusty0604
Most of these states now, they're using privatized jails for two purposes: one, to disenfranchise voters, because once youve been to jail its more difficult to vote. Funny, I thought people went to jail because THEY ARE CRIMINALS!
Oh, but Jesse can't sell that.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:59:25 PM PST
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: Rusty0604
It must really rub this guys’ innards raw seeing Sharpton outpimp him by a factor of 500.
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posted on
01/27/2015 5:59:29 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: ThunderSleeps
“Thank God we got penitentiaries!” - Richard Pryor
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:00:06 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Rusty0604
While you’re incarcerated, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. When you’ve ‘paid your debt to society’, your voting rights, and ALL other rights should be restored. If you’re such a risk that your rights can’t be restored, then you should stay in prison.
That’s how it should work.
I don’t agree with convicted felons losing their voting rights and the right to keep and bear arms after their sentence is done. If they are so ‘dangerous’ they shouldn’t be able to vote or have a firearm, they should stay in prison. You’re either a free citizen or not.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:02:27 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Rusty0604
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:03:27 PM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: Rusty0604
maybe committing a felony has something to do with it too
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:03:50 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
To: Rusty0604
For profit prisons hardly make a dent in the numbers of black jobs or voting rights taken away by uncontrolled illegal immigration across our Southern Border. But, illegal aliens are the new underclass for the Donkeys and he will say nothing to offend them. He looks for his bogey men elsewhere. No, Jesse wants to make sure the flood continues and wants them voting (Donkey, of course) to boot.
To: KoRn
Yes, but whether one is in a state run prison or for profit prison doesn’t have anything to do with it. He must have been talking to some dumb people.
To: KoRn
Clearly states have the constitutional right to revoke the right to vote for commission of a crime.
To: Rusty0604
Yeah, whether it’s for profit or not is irrelevant.
He was probably throwing in the “for profit” bit to piss off the audience.
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:15:09 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: scrabblehack
Clearly these folks haven’t read the constitution.
“Jackson joined House Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) at a press conference in Washington last Thursday where they introduced a constitutional amendment that would put elections under federal control to guarantee the right to vote to every American, including those in prison.”
To: Rusty0604
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:23:05 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: Rusty0604
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posted on
01/27/2015 6:54:52 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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