Posted on 12/31/2016 5:17:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
… John Zaccaro Jr. was a Middlebury College student when he was arrested in 1986 and accused of selling $25 worth of cocaine to an undercover state police officer. He was convicted in 1988 and served four months under house arrest.
At the time, Ferraro accused prosecutors of unfairly targeting her son because of her high profile after becoming the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1984.
Outgoing Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, pardoned Zaccaro and nine others Saturday. …
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Probably so he can get a hunting license.
4 months of house arrest. Wow. Brutal.
Get busted with selling a twenty five dollar crack rock
and see if you get four months...
A Democrat trying to assert victimhood back in the 80’s.I guess it’s a tradition with these people.
And his mom had the nerve to accuse prosecutors of pulling a political stunt. Shows what her depth of character was back then.
Special rules for special people.
So who are the other other felons pardoned? Or is everyone supposed to glom onto Ferraro and forget about the others...
You nailed it.
The DEMS need his vote for the 2018 elections.
He deserves it if he got a felony for 0.25 grams of coke. It was in the neighborhood of 75-100/gram IIRC back then.
Personally, I thought it was about the most worthless drug going. You could legally get the same effect drinking a half dozen cups of coffee and going to the dentist and getting a tooth filled. For the same or lower price...
For that kind of dough you could get a couple of kegs and a bottle of JD and get happy with a lot of people :-)
Not even coffee makes one think that there are policeman watching outside windows that are not there, or worse.
Convicted of stupidity.
Must run in the family...
victimless activities such as drug posesssion are not crimes
the drug war has not reduced addiction on iota
I knew a lot of people who did coke and never saw anything like that come over any of them, granted if they got into it like Pacinos character in Scarface I could see it...
You are right about the drug war has not reduced addiction one iota. Wonder why that is? Certainly the government has taken enough from taxpayers.
What about her husband, does he get a pardon too?
It's interesting to ponder the possibility that from the government's point of view the War on Drugs is going exactly as intended.
The Drug Warriors knew from the start that if the laws were applied equally too rich and poor alike, the Drug War wouldn’t last very long.
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