Posted on 10/10/2014 3:36:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Paul is the first potential 2016 contender to visit the city.
Sen. Rand Paul met with civil rights leaders Friday in Ferguson, Missouri, the city torn apart by racial unrest following the August shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. During his visit, the Republican Senator, who is seen as a likely presidential candidate, stated his concerns about long prison sentences for nonviolent crimes, the loss of voting rights for felons and military programs to give unused equipment to local police departments.
“I wanted to find out what we could do to make the situation better,” Paul said of his visit Friday.
“Given the racial disparities in our criminal justice system, it is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them,” Paul wrote in an opinion piece for TIME this summer....
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Hopefully this ends the story of Rand Paul, what a clown.
[ Please explain what you mean by that. ]
Rand could be “going liberal” ahead of time to get the Jump on people like the jebster and Romney so he can be/play the Liberal RINO Stalking Horse, Split the liberal RINo primary vote and allow Ted or Another conservative to get in and then accept the VP slot under Ted so they can say the ticket is “Unified” between Liberal/libertarian Republican and Conservative Republican....
But that is my Theory..
I don’t think so, but anything is possible, I suppose.
Rand is working on his resume enhancement for 2016. I personally am not impressed.
He lost the balls he never had, bye bye rand
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