Posted on 07/09/2021 12:08:51 AM PDT by KingofZion
A still-incarcerated convicted murderer made history in the nation’s capital when voters recently elected him to one of the District of Columbia’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, which advise the local government on neighborhood issues such as police protection, parking, zoning, liquor licenses, and trash collection.
Joel Caston, 44, has been imprisoned for 26 years after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the Aug. 14, 1994, ambush slaying of Rafiq Washington, 18. He is expected to be released from the D.C. Central Detention Facility either this or next year.
Getting elected while behind bars is difficult, but not impossible.
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A writer, Caston has taken for-credit courses through Georgetown University’s Prison Scholars Program, mentored young men in jail, practiced yoga, and edited a prisoner newspaper.
He was elected June 15 to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) for Ward 7, becoming the first incarcerated person to be elected to public office in the District of Columbia.
Each ward is divided into zones, and in Ward 7, each zone is identified with a letter from B through F. The 7F Commission is further divided into seven single-member districts, and Caston represents 7F07, which consists of the jail, the Harriet Tubman Women’s Shelter, and Park Kennedy, an apartment complex across the street from the jail in Southeast Washington. The position is unpaid. The term of office is two years.
Caston bested four other candidates, all of whom reside in the jail with him, the community newspaper The Washington Informer reported.
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He will fit right in to the Swamp. No problem.
Big deal. They’re all criminals.
For reference, Ward 7 on the map is the far east extreme neighborhood of DC...92-percent black. Decade by decade, they are generally known as the murder ‘capital’ of DC.
This was being discussed in a forum I’m on a week is so ago. Leftists were OK with it.
You are right. Most of these skanks, should be in jail themselves, so he will be among his contemporaries.
Big deal. They’re all criminals.
TRUE D.C. District of Criminals, for Criminals, by Criminals.
CCP greater than DC
What better qualification for a politician in D.C.?
He “bested four other candidates. All of whom reside in the jail with him”. Babylon Bee couldn’t make this crap up.
You mean the govt housing zone?
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This was Marion Berrys award for years. It is a bad area. Fortunately ANCs are advisory in nature and not legislative.
WTF!!??! Is it the water in DC?
He definitely had outside help looking for more social revolutionaries. He’s part of their farm team.
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And they want to be a state. They’d probably vote in a dream team of a murderer and a drug dealer as senators and a child molester as a representative.
In the 2012 [closed] WV Democrat Presidential primary, convicted and incarcerated felon Keith Russell Judd received 40.65% of the vote only to be defeated by incumbent unconvicted felon Barack Obama with 59.35%
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