Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

House Dems hire ex-gang member and convicted shooter to top campaign post
New York Post ^ | 02/15/2021 | Carl Campanile

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; campaign; democrats; gangmember
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-52 next last

Dyjuan Tatro


1 posted on 02/15/2021 8:19:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Makes sense.
Birds of a feather flock together.


2 posted on 02/15/2021 8:21:17 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Dijon Tater?

Sounds kinda good...


3 posted on 02/15/2021 8:21:24 AM PST by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I’m thinking self censoring is the way to go here.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 8:21:39 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
From 2011...

6-year prison term for OGK member Tatro admitted earning $12,000 a month from drug deals, officials say

5 posted on 02/15/2021 8:23:22 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: faithhopecharity

Yep criminals supporting criminals


6 posted on 02/15/2021 8:23:34 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: moovova

lolol too funny


7 posted on 02/15/2021 8:24:35 AM PST by southernindymom ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Well, they are a gang.................................


8 posted on 02/15/2021 8:25:02 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

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.....


9 posted on 02/15/2021 8:25:05 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

In first with “his mother said he is turning his life around.”


10 posted on 02/15/2021 8:25:52 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

The democrat party is a criminal organization, so no surprise.


11 posted on 02/15/2021 8:26:02 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Racketeering. Drug dealing. Shooting and slashing his victims. With credentials like that dude should be running for a Democrat House seat!


12 posted on 02/15/2021 8:27:14 AM PST by dowcaet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

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/


13 posted on 02/15/2021 8:27:40 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

He is a loyal party member in good standing.

Anyone who questions loyal party members should be sent to the gulags!


14 posted on 02/15/2021 8:30:31 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

The Democrat Party Crime Syndicate.


15 posted on 02/15/2021 8:30:59 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back
just totally unbelievable to what is happening in our Nation...

A Nation that DJT had on the right track ..

we may never survive if these idiots stay in control for eight years...

16 posted on 02/15/2021 8:32:45 AM PST by haircutter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

How fitting!


17 posted on 02/15/2021 8:33:09 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

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!


18 posted on 02/15/2021 8:36:41 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Is there any other kind of Democrat? No.


19 posted on 02/15/2021 8:38:10 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
Maximum Security Prison photo...Dyjuan Tatro..ex-Gang member.....Now hired by the House Democrats’ campaign as a senior advisor.


20 posted on 02/15/2021 8:42:22 AM PST by caww
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-52 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson