tulsi is a useful idiot is all. she is being used to throw a monkey wrench into the race & siphon votes.......... i doubt she will even make it to the next debate, let alone a primary.
tusi = jill stein 2.0
Her response to Harris was spot on. As AG, Harris was extremely to the right. We are expected to believe she changed overnight?
she's a mixed bag. as AG she followed laws that were on the books. was she not suppose to? she was also an advocate for reform.
Through interviews with law professors, former prosecutors, political analysts and the candidate’s campaign, we found a mixed record.
On the one hand, Harris achieved some notable reform-minded victories, including efforts to reduce recidivism and eliminate bias in law enforcement. She also burnished her progressive credentials in 2004 with a controversial decision as district attorney not to seek the death penalty for a man suspected of killing a police officer.
At other times, Harris’ positions disappointed criminal-justice advocates, and that’s becoming an issue in the Democratic presidential primary.
Harris’ criminal justice reform achievements
There’s little question that Harris has notched some achievements that are in tune with what criminal-justice reform advocates have sought. They include:
• The
Back On Track program in 2005, which was designed to help nonviolent, first-time drug offenders transition back to their communities and prevent recidivism.
• Her refusal in 2013 to defend California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, saying in a
press release, "The Supreme Court has described marriage as a fundamental right 14 times since 1888. The time has come for this right to be afforded to every citizen."
• Her 2015 launch of Open Justice, a criminal-justice open-data initiative that provides information on deaths in police custody, including those that occur during arrests, as well as arrest rates by race and ethnicity. It also provides data on officers who are killed or assaulted on the job.
• Her creation of the first statewide implicit bias training for law enforcement personnel in 2015. It called for a focus on six areas of policing that "emphasize respect, listening, neutrality and trust, while recognizing and addressing implicit biases that can be barriers to these approaches," according to a
news release at the time from the attorney general’s office.
• Her implementation of a body camera pilot program for all agents in her attorney general’s department in 2015.
• Her establishment of the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board in 2016.
"As a prosecutor in the early and mid 2000s, a time when so many still held a ‘lock ‘em up’ mentality, Senator Harris pioneered a reentry program that became a state and national model," Ian Sams, Harris’ campaign spokesman, said in a written statement, referring to the Back On Track program. "As Attorney General, she implemented a first-of-its-kind training on implicit bias and procedural justice and made her officers wear body cameras. And in the Senate, she has championed criminal justice reform measures to end mass incarceration, upend cash bail, and confront discrimination. That is her record, and it’s one of consistently making progress and protecting people in pursuit of a fairer system."
Harris’ record on the death penalty
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Kamala Harris: Reformer or silent ally of the status quo?
tulsi won't condemn assad & stated that she believes there was no 'collusion' between donny & vlad & we should all just move fwd & forget about it - cause an impeachment would 'divide this country'.... lol... hello? where ya been for the last 2 1/2 years tuls?
of course the roooskies want her to stick around.