Posted on 06/12/2015 10:10:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, addressed race and the criminal justice system during a stop this week in Baltimore.
He spoke at a Maryland Republican fundraiser in Baltimore about racial disparities in law enforcement practices.
Paul drew criticism last month in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being injured while in police custody, and the riots that followed in Baltimore.
At the time, Paul did a controversial interview with radio host Laura Ingraham during which he said some factors that influenced the violence were “the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of sort of a moral code in our society.”
He joked that he had traveled on a train through Baltimore the night before.
“I’m glad the train didn’t stop,” he said at the time.
During his speech this week in Baltimore, Paul told the story of Kalief Browder, who was kept in jail at Riker’s Island for three years awaiting trial after being accused of stealing a backpack, according to the Washington Post.
“He wasn’t even convicted,” Paul said, according to the Washington Post.
“So when I see people angry and upset – and I’m not here to excuse violence in the cities – but when I see anger I understand where some of the anger is coming from. ... Imagine how (Browder’s) classmates feel about American justice. Imagine how his parents feel.”
Paul told the group that he has told Browder’s story for more than a year but had considered not talking about it during the fundraiser because Browder died of suicide last weekend, according to the Washington Post.
Paul also became the subject this week of an ethics complaint based on one of his campaign videos, Roll Call reported.
The American Democracy Legal Fund filed a complaint on Monday with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
The American Democracy Legal Fund claimed Paul violated federal law as well as a Senate Committee on Rules and Administration standing order with a video for his presidential campaign posted on YouTube.
The video, according to the fund’s website, includes video and audio from Paul’s speech on the Senate floor against reauthorizing portions of the Patriot Act on May 20.
“Senator Paul blatantly used an official government television broadcast from the floor of the Senate as the basis for an advertisement for his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016,” the complaint letter said. “This duplication of a Senate broadcast was in no way related to the business of the Senate or Senator Paul’s official duties. Senator Paul’s advertisement also makes no pretense that it was not produced for and intended solely for his political use.”
Paul also criticized wasteful government spending in a Senate hearing on the topic Wednesday.
Paul is chairman of the subcommittee on federal spending oversight and emergency management for the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
The hearing Wednesday was titled “Wasteful Spending in the Federal Government: An Outside Perspective” and featured speakers from groups including the Heritage Foundation, Citizens Against Government Waste and DownsizingGovernment.org, according to a news release from Paul’s office.
In opening the hearing, Paul said he wants to look at how something practical can be done to curb waste.
“We have about a million dollars that we borrow every minute, and I think this is a threat to our economy and some economists have said that it’s costing us millions of jobs just because of the burden of this debt,” he said.
“So what we’re going to do is talk about some of the waste and some of this has been talked about in the past, but my hope is from the discussion today we can actually itemize some of this.”
Paul said there’s power in appropriating money for a new Republican Senate majority.
“There is a great deal of power to the purse, if we’ll actually use it,” he said.
“It’s what the expression is supposed to mean, that we’re supposed to express how we like the money to be spent.”
How can we tell if they aren’t really White people pretending to be Black????
Is sharpton going to be his spiritual adviser?
Rand Paul wants black criminals amnesty.
Ping!
I ran into a few white crips in California prisons. One of them told me, that he was white on the outside, but on the inside, he was black. I never asked the other white crips, but I suspect they probably felt the same way. I know the white guys always wanted to beat knobs on their heads. Sometimes they did.
You mean like Rachel Dolezal, the head of an NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, who has long represented herself (falsely) as being black?
Who is to blame for racial disparities in a black city, with black elected officials run by Democrats for decades?
No one seems to be asking that question. They want it to just be the “police” But who runs the police, who pays the police, etc.
Paul's pandering will do him no good. Unless he promises to open up the huge tax-payer funded goody bag to blacks like Dems do as a matter of course.
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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