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At least make it seem like you care
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Not just denied.
If they had denied it then, hey, that's their prerogative, the party is a private entity that can do whatever the fuck they want.
What was fucked is they strung protestors along telling them they'd get to speak, then pulled out at the last second when there wasn't enough time to react.
If they weren't going to let them speak, they should have said it.
But bald faced lying to avoid the optics of a protest is billshit, and why people don't trust Kamala. She shot herself in the foot and then got mad her boot has a hole in it.
I bet she learned that move from her time in the police force.
Criticizing someone for being a DA alone makes zero sense.
Most are bags of shit. But if only bags of shit take the job, nothing gets better.
There's lots of valid criticisms of Kamala that talking about may result in real change to her platform. Not only helping stop trump but ensuring we have a good president instead
Isn't helping anything.
She is directly responsible for locking up thousands of nonviolent drug offenders when she had the ability to reduce, expunge, or never take to trial many trivial cases, yet she chose to.
Also that was a jab about cops being liars. Cops lie on the job all the time, otherwise we wouldn't need to ever record them.
Where are you getting that from?
I hear it from Republicans fairly often, but it doesn't seem backed up by reality...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-prosecutor.html
This Forbes article from 4 years ago covers the general feel of the issue, and has been updated recently.
To quote more directly from the Mercury article, This SF Gate article briefly covers the relevant actions taken by Harris over her career:
Also I can't read that article bc of a paywall, sorry for not being able to respond to any relevant info, but feel free to give me the important parts if you'd like.
You said:
Your source disagrees:
So...
Do you acknowledge you were wrong?
Yeah I definitely misspoke and should've said "convicted" rather than "locked up", but she still had far more nonviolent cannabis convictions than the previous DA, as the article also points out. And every single one of those people convicted by her will still be affected when they have to check "yes" on a felony conviction at work and elsewhere.
Do you see the problem that I'm getting at though? She's refusing to seriously lean into an issue that would only help her campaign, due to a long standing history against cannabis legalization. This race is close after all, so her doing so just seems like a huge mistake.