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13. she's embarassingly wrong

Fri Jul 26, 2019, 07:04 AM

Jul 2019

...and she'd be one of the only Dems to 'do it again.'

Knowing everything we know about its effect on the community, incarceration rates, sentencing disparities? What a silly thing to say.

Pulling a handful of black folks in front of the camera to defend that bill isn't going to change the reality or the perception.

She'd really do these again?

- Subsidies for state prison expansion
- A brutally inflexible federal three-strikes law ensuring that record numbers of prisoners would remain locked up for nonviolent and second-tier felonies
- Abolition of federal Pell grants for prisoners’ college tuition, ensuring that paroled offenders return to their communities without having had a chance to advance their education past high school
- Enthusiastic promotion of mandatory minimum sentences
- 13-year-old offenders tried as adults
- A vastly expanded federal death penalty, imposed just as growing numbers of states were backing away from capital punishment
- A tidal wave of military gear arriving at local police departments, bigger than the arsenals of many nations
https://www.thenation.com/article/nothing-about-the-1994-crime-bill-was-unintentional/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Eddie Bernice Johnson's courageous stand for '94 crime bill shows she's wiser than her progressive [View all] TexasTowelie Jul 2019 OP

The More You Know 🌈 oasis Jul 2019 #1

I saw the news from my safe Surburban neighborhood. Blue_true Jul 2019 #21

A plea for a remedy produced an imperfect bill. Certainly nothing oasis Jul 2019 #22

I think people who weren't alive during the 90s crime wave may not grasp Recursion Jul 2019 #2

And I doubt if more than a few people on DU BlueWI Jul 2019 #23

Then could the bill have had that effect? treestar Jul 2019 #37

Well, if you pass a bill in 1994 the impact is at least a year out. BlueWI Jul 2019 #38

I need more time for my research treestar Jul 2019 #39

Yes, the cable channels starting all those crime shows too treestar Jul 2019 #36

I'm so grateful to Cha Jul 2019 #3

Nope. OneBro Jul 2019 #4

No it wasn't "Cowardly".. that's a gratuitous Cha Jul 2019 #5

You don't have to agree with my summary. OneBro Jul 2019 #6

I'm just saying.. you lose by Cha Jul 2019 #7

Fair enough. OneBro Jul 2019 #8

As someone who has lived in a high crime area for most of my life... Kahuna7 Jul 2019 #17

+1 oasis Jul 2019 #19

Have you no sympathy for DUI victims? OneBro Jul 2019 #25

Reading is fundamental... Kahuna7 Jul 2019 #27

So is logic. OneBro Jul 2019 #28

Which you have none of. Go peddle your hyperbole somewhere else... Kahuna7 Jul 2019 #29

read the article - the bill had good in it too treestar Jul 2019 #35

Here's what Bernie Sanders said about the bill he voted for: betsuni Jul 2019 #9

Here's something else BS said at the time.. Cha Jul 2019 #10

"Bernie Sanders' strong record of supporting tough on crime legislation." betsuni Jul 2019 #14

So predictable NYMinute Jul 2019 #11

Which? OneBro Jul 2019 #26

Opposition to the crime bill's history is predictable NYMinute Jul 2019 #31

Ah. I doubt that they'll get any traction. OneBro Jul 2019 #40

K and R oasis Jul 2019 #12

she's embarassingly wrong bigtree Jul 2019 #13

I hope not! loyalsister Jul 2019 #16

I trust what Congresswoman Cha Jul 2019 #15

The rising intensity of crime in the inner cities had to be dealt with. oasis Jul 2019 #18

Rep Eddie Bernice Johnson is easy Cha Jul 2019 #20

K&R highplainsdem Jul 2019 #24

yikes. Doubling down on being wrong Kurt V. Jul 2019 #30

People can disagree about the 1994 Crime Bill, but to do it again... aikoaiko Jul 2019 #32

Eddie Bernice Johnson is an amazing woman and is well respected in the Texas Democratic Party Gothmog Jul 2019 #33

There was a lot more to that bill than meets the eye treestar Jul 2019 #34