Rand Paul: Bill Clinton put ‘generation’ of black men in prison
PHILADELPHIA — Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul says he will bash Hillary Clinton over her husband’s record of putting “a generation of black men in prison” if he is the nominee.
Paul, a freshman senator from Kentucky, says he will compete with Clinton in Philadelphia, where Democrats have a 7-to-1 registration advantage, and other impoverished cities by highlighting his support for criminal justice reform.
“If I were the nominee, we will compete in Philadelphia,” he told CBS radio talk show host Dom Giordano at the National Constitution Center.
“I’ll ask Hillary Clinton, what have you done for criminal justice? Your husband passed all the laws that put a generation of black men in prison. Her husband was responsible for that,” he said.
“She’s changing her tune now. She’s changing her tune because people like me have been speaking out against these injustices,” he said.
As president, Clinton signed the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which gave states fiscal incentives to enact tougher sentencing laws.
Paul noted that in some predominantly African-American communities such as Ferguson, Mo., there are substantially fewer black men than women because so many black men are incarcerated.
He touted bills he has introduced with Democratic support that would give judges more discretion in handing out sentencing and would reduce penalties for non-violent drug offenses.
Paul said he would also challenge Clinton about her vision for reinvigorating blighted urban centers.
“I’ll also ask her what she’s going to do for poor people in Philadelphia. I have a specific plan that would dramatically lower the taxes for people who live in zip codes of poverty and high unemployment. I would leave billions of dollars in Philadelphia over 10 years. What’s Hillary Clinton going to do?” he said.
Paul, a freshman senator from Kentucky, says he will compete with Clinton in Philadelphia, where Democrats have a 7-to-1 registration advantage, and other impoverished cities by highlighting his support for criminal justice reform.
“I’ll ask Hillary Clinton, what have you done for criminal justice? Your husband passed all the laws that put a generation of black men in prison. Her husband was responsible for that,” he said.
“She’s changing her tune now. She’s changing her tune because people like me have been speaking out against these injustices,” he said.
As president, Clinton signed the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which gave states fiscal incentives to enact tougher sentencing laws.
Paul noted that in some predominantly African-American communities such as Ferguson, Mo., there are substantially fewer black men than women because so many black men are incarcerated.
He touted bills he has introduced with Democratic support that would give judges more discretion in handing out sentencing and would reduce penalties for non-violent drug offenses.
Paul said he would also challenge Clinton about her vision for reinvigorating blighted urban centers.
“I’ll also ask her what she’s going to do for poor people in Philadelphia. I have a specific plan that would dramatically lower the taxes for people who live in zip codes of poverty and high unemployment. I would leave billions of dollars in Philadelphia over 10 years. What’s Hillary Clinton going to do?” he said.
A spokeswoman for Correct the Record, a rapid-response group aligned with Clinton's campaign, argued Paul was engaging in partisan attacks.
"Hillary Clinton has continuously fought for a criminal justice system that is fair and balanced by cosponsoring legislation to end racial profiling, fighting for community policing through the COPs program, and presenting bold ideas on how we can work together to fix the inequities in our current system," Mary Rutherford Jennings, deputy communications director for the group, said in a statement. "Rand Paul is choosing instead to play partisan attack games, even attempting to halt this opportunity for progress if it gets him headlines."
This story was updated at 3:08 p.m.
REALITY CHECK ON HILL$$$ and BILL$$$
YOU THOUGHT OBAMA INVITED OBAMANOMICS and
started the assault on the American middle-class?
NOPE!
“By the time of Bill Clinton’s election in 1992, the
Democratic Party had completely repudiated its association with the reforms of
the New Deal and Great Society periods. Clinton gutted welfare programs to
provide an ample supply of cheap labor for the rich (WHICH NOW MEANS OPEN BORDERS
AND NO E-VERIFY!), including a growing layer of black capitalists, and passed
the 1994 Federal Crime Bill, with its notorious “three strikes” provision that
has helped create the largest prison population in the world.”
Hillary Clinton’s Global Greed
How many times did she sellout America to
fill her bottomless pockets?
Another
possible explanation is that the Clintons don't believe voters will really care
that much. The renting
of the Lincoln Bedroom to people who gave $5.4 million to the Democratic
National Committee in 1995 and 1996 did no lasting damage to Bill's approval
ratings. Neither did the 1996 fundraising scandal involving illegal foreign
donations, which the Los Angeles Times reported on just before the president
easily won a second term.
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION HANDS OUT $9 MILLION TO CHARITIES AND….
BUYS CHELSEA A $11 MILLION NYC APARTMENT.
images of Chelsea’s
$11 million dollar condo here:
REALITY CHECK ON HILL$$$
and BILL$$$ and Miss One Percent Chelsea... living the good life from the sweet bribes
of Wall Street's biggest criminal corporations and global Muslim dictatorships
OBAMA IN SELMA: Is it his biggest hoax and
lie to date?
"The lies and
demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the
government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the
fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents
privilege."
THE HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN AMERICA:
The Democrat Party’s OPEN BORDERS agenda at
work.
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