Posted on 02/15/2021 8:19:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The House Democrats’ campaign arm has hired an ex-gangster-turned-high-profile criminal justice advocate for a top leadership position, The Post has learned.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, headed by Hudson Valley area Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, tapped Dyjuan Tatro as a senior adviser for diversity and inclusion.
Tatro is known for appearing in the 2019 PBS documentary series “College Behind Bars,” about a group of inmates trying to earn their degrees through New York state’s Bard Prison Initiative.
Through the program, Tatro got a bachelor’s degree while serving a six-year sentence for racketeering conspiracy.
At the time of that 2011 conviction, Tatro had already been doing time for shooting two rival gang members in 2006.
Described at the time as a “triggerman” for the Original Gangsta Killas street gang that terrorized Albany, Tatro confessed to the shootings, and to a “razor slashing” of another victim in 2002 as well as to dealing drugs.
He admitted to making at least $12,000 a month dealing drugs and conspired to traffic more than 50 grams of crack cocaine.
Tatro was freed in 2017 and has since become an advocate for increasing educational opportunities for inmates through BPI.
While in the program himself, Tatro was part of a three-inmate debate team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills that famously defeated the Harvard undergraduate debate team, earning national headlines.
Republicans said Tatro’s hiring will reinforce criticism that Democrats are soft on crime.
“It’s certainly on-brand for criminal-coddling Democrats, but the rest of America will find it disturbing that a murderous gang member is holding a prominent position with the DCCC,” said New York state Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy.
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Makes sense.
Birds of a feather flock together.
Dijon Tater?
Sounds kinda good...
I’m thinking self censoring is the way to go here.
Yep criminals supporting criminals
lolol too funny
Well, they are a gang.................................
If he served his time, repented, and turned around his life; plus is qualified for the position, why not?
The noise the Republicans are making over this is just plain stupid......as usual, they have trouble focusing on the real issues and are easily distracted.....
In first with “his mother said he is turning his life around.”
The democrat party is a criminal organization, so no surprise.
Racketeering. Drug dealing. Shooting and slashing his victims. With credentials like that dude should be running for a Democrat House seat!
Sounds like an excerpt from Kurt Schlichter’s novels where in the Democrat/socialists end up disbanding the police forces and hiring local gangs of thugs to provide ‘law enforcement.’
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/kurt-schlichter/
He is a loyal party member in good standing.
Anyone who questions loyal party members should be sent to the gulags!
The Democrat Party Crime Syndicate.
A Nation that DJT had on the right track ..
we may never survive if these idiots stay in control for eight years...
How fitting!
exactly.
this ain’t our grandparents’ D party (which had its own problems to be sure)
this is a vicously Anti-American, Anti-Christian, Anti-Jewish, anti-Constitutional liberties criminal gang. It must be removed from all power and influence and, hopefully, its leaders sent to prison ASAP!
Is there any other kind of Democrat? No.
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