Posted on 03/03/2023 1:00:27 PM PST by SJackson
David Soares is district attorney of Albany County, NY — where politics is paramount, where facts seldom matter, and where apostasy isn’t tolerated.
No surprise, then, that Democrat Soares — an eloquent contrarian — is on the outs in the Democrat-dominated capital city.
Soares is black, which historically wasn’t an asset in his county’s Irish-Catholic, machine-dominated political environment.
He was elected DA in 2005 with the backing of the noxious disruptor George Soros — much to the dismay of local safe-streets advocates.
But Soares takes his oath of office seriously. He most certainly is no Alvin Bragg — a Soros acolyte so caught up in hard-left, racialized ideology that he might just as well be the local public defender.
Indeed, Soares was among the first to warn against the now-notorious criminal justice “reforms” in 2019.
It seemed obvious then that easing up on violent criminals would generate more violent crime — but it took bravery to say so, and Soares appears to have courage in abundance.
He’s now demanding reforms of the “reforms,” and his heresy — he’s a black, progressive Democrat arguing persuasively that innocent black New Yorkers are the principal victims of the 2019 changes — has been noted. Especially by the black progressive Democrats now running the state Legislature, who apparently have had enough of his impudence.
Earlier this month, in a late-Sunday-night telephone call, the DA was disinvited from testifying against the 2019 “reforms” at a joint legislative committee.
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“You may not have heard this hard truth,” he wrote. “These reforms have had their most devastating impact on black and brown communities. If you take an honest look at the data — the increases in crime, the victims of those crimes and the location of the most violent crimes — the connection is quite clear.”
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democrats just doing the hate this man will not do
He could get stuck in a leftist infinite loop.
1. State your position.
2. Does it support the narrative?
2. Yes: shame=0. Progress!
3: No: shame=shame+1. Go back to 1.
He might cease being a leftist, or hope the narrative changes in his favor. But those possibilities are not part of the program.
Except they are not progressive. They are fascists in the actual, true sense of the word.
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Come to the Dark Side, David. We have cookies.
“These reforms have had their most devastating impact on black and brown communities. If you take an honest look at the data —...”
And not one word about the value of “feel good” legislation or lowest common denominator voters... shame on you! Shame!
“If you take an honest look at the data”
The guy has made it to step one—figure out the facts.
Now he gets to find out the ugly part—Democrats only care about their emotions. Facts don’t matter.
If the white bosses in Albany feel good by making life miserable for black and brown people—too bad—they are the bosses.
Because...white feelings matter and black lives do not—in the Democratic Party.
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