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  • Originally posted by TopHatter View Post

    Wouldn't know who that is, I'm a somewhat recent transplant and I haven't listened to the radio in decades.
    The Greaseman was a misogynistic, racist POS shock jock who got ran off the radio for making racist comments on air.

    He was big in the DC market as well.
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

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    • Originally posted by Albany Rifles View Post

      The Greaseman was a misogynistic, racist POS shock jock who got ran off the radio for making racist comments on air.

      He was big in the DC market as well.
      And the other shoe landed with a giant thud. Ton of stuff just started making sense lol
      “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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      • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
        The pandemic and Amazon has been increasing the workload in numbers of parcels being handled by the USPS.
        Meanwhile, back in reality:

        Another Day, Another Adverse Ruling for the Trump Administration

        Donald Trump and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy suffered another setback on Monday. Judge Stanley Bastian (Ninth Circuit; Eastern Washington) poked DeJoy in the left eye last week, and yesterday, Judge Victor Marrero (Second Circuit; Southern New York) poked him in the right eye.

        Like Bastian, Marrero pulled no punches in his ruling, declaring that "While the court has no doubts that the Postal Service's workforce comprises hardworking and dedicated public servants, multiple managerial failures have undermined the postal employees' ability to fulfill their vital mission." He imposed several specific orders, including treating all ballots as first-class mail (something that Bastian also ordered), and paying for necessary overtime in the weeks surrounding the election. Marrero also said he wants a detailed plan about how the USPS will guarantee that election-related mail is delivered on time, and if he doesn't get that plan by Friday, he'll impose his own plan.

        Perhaps we are being naive, but it certainly appears that Trump and DeJoy have lost the battle and the war here. DeJoy moved so early and with such ham-handed aggression that the USPS is now being watched by every Democratic officeholder in the nation, an army of Democratic lawyers, a handful of cranky federal judges, and the actual employees of the USPS. Given the clumsy way the Postmaster General tried to circumvent campaign finance laws (something that may well land him in the hoosegow eventually), we just don't see that he has the wherewithal to maneuver and further with that much scrutiny of his every move.
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        “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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        • Ohio Republicans say they’re seeing suburban support for Trump in sharp decline statewide

          COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Peggy Lehner, a Republican state senator in Ohio, doesn’t sugarcoat what she has seen happen to support for President Donald Trump in her suburban Dayton district.

          “It hasn’t ebbed. It’s crashed,” said Lehner, who is not seeking re-election in the district of working-class and white-collar communities the president won comfortably four years ago. “He is really doing poorly among independents.”

          Trump’s chances for a second term rest heavily on being able to maintain the margins he won by in 2016, particularly in suburban areas. He plans to campaign outside Toledo on Monday, as liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death stokes questions of whether the sudden court vacancy would energize more suburban voters who support abortion rights or social conservatives in small-town and rural areas who oppose them.

          Republican lawmakers and strategists in Ohio say they are seeing research that shows a near-uniform drop in support from his 2016 totals across every suburban region of the state.

          Ohio judge says Republican secretary of state acted arbitrarily and unreasonably in limiting ballot drop boxes to one per county

          They say that Trump, who won Ohio by eight percentage points in 2016, maintains a yawning advantage in more rural areas and small towns. Still, Republicans are concerned that if he is losing badly in suburban areas in Ohio, it is a signal that Trump’s hold on other states in the industrial heartland that delivered him the presidency may be in peril.

          “The million-dollar question becomes, how does that translate in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania?” said Corry Bliss, a Republican strategist who managed Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s 2016 reelection campaign. “It translates into probably not a very good night.”

          Ohio has long been a bellwether. No Republican has won the White House without carrying the state since the advent of the modern two-party system, and no Democrat has since 1960.

          Trump is faring worse than four years ago in communities in essentially all suburban areas around Ohio, from its major cities to its several midsize metro areas, more than a half-dozen Republican operatives tracking races across Ohio say.

          Trump has slipped in suburbs to the east and west of Cleveland, where he narrowly edged Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, they say. In the blue-collar suburbs of Youngstown, where Trump won by double digits, the same appears to be true.
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          “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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          • Originally posted by Bloomberg_Quicktake

            Former EPA Leaders Endorse Biden, Denounce Trump’s Impact on Environment

            Published on Sep 22, 2020

            The leaders who ran the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for more than a quarter century, serving under Republican and Democratic presidents, agree that President Donald Trump has set the agency against science. At an event Monday that was part of Climate Week New York, four prior EPA administrators endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, denounced Trump’s approach to the agency, and said the upcoming election is critical for the environment. “The present situation is a total aberration,” said William K. Reilly, the EPA administrator under President George H. W. Bush. “The first thing Trump did was fire all the environmental scientists at the agency.” To withstand court challenges, regulations enforced by the agency need to be based on empirical evidence. The past administrators said the agency’s ability to fulfill that function had been compromised because impartial scientist had been fired or forced out, in some cases replaced by former employees from industries regulated by the EPA. “The claims are false,” said EPA spokesperson James Hewitt. “We have improved the role of science throughout the agency's operations.” Carol Browner, who ran the EPA under President Bill Clinton and served under President Barack Obama, was likewise blunt in her assessment of Trump’s EPA. “This administration is simply gutting the Clean Water Act, letting polluters dump whatever they want into the waters.” She scoffed Trump’s claims about his environmental record, such as a move to ban drilling off the Florida coast. “The closest he has come to the Everglades is to golf.” The other two former EPA heads to speak out were Christine Todd Whitman, who served under George W. Bush, and Gina McCarthy who served under Obama. The Trump administration has been aggressive in pursuing rollbacks of regulations disliked by industries, particularly for fossil fuel. The EPA has been steadily trimming air and water regulations and undermining Obama-era regulations on emissions from autos and power plants. Just last month the Trump administration cut a part of a rule requiring oil and gas companies to detect and repair methane leaks, another source of planet-warming emissions. “President Trump’s record on the environment proves you can have energy independence and a clean, healthy environment without destroying the economy, over-regulating, or burdening American taxpayers,” said Samantha Zager, a Trump campaign spokesperson. Just before the event, current EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler declared the success of the EPA under Trump. “We have done more in the first four years of the Trump administration to improve the environment than probably any administration except perhaps during the very first years of EPA,” Wheeler said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. That comparison to the EPA’s leader at its founding under President Richard Nixon drew disbelief. “How dare he compare himself to [William] Ruckelshaus,” said Browner. She argued that the EPA’s original legacy of protecting human health has been been met with indifference by Wheeler. The deepest damage done to the agency, the former administrators agreed, had been dismantling its core scientific capacity. Rebuilding scientific staff at the EPA will take years. “We didn’t just lose four year of the ability of career people to do their jobs,” said Browner, “but those career people are being robbed of resources and support they need to do their work. We need to overcome what we have lost in these four year.”

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            • Bloomberg extends a form of Democrat outreach by paying their fines and other payments in Florida so that the Felons may be able to vote.
              https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rida-vote.html

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              • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                Bloomberg extends a form of Democrat outreach by paying their fines and other payments in Florida so that the Felons may be able to vote.
                https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rida-vote.html
                IOW Bloomberg made sure that felons that had completed their sentence had their voting rights restored just like they would have been in 39 other states. And just like the people in the State of Florida voted for in 2018. It was through the actions of Mini Trump Gov DeathSantis that added restrictions to the peoples vote

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                • Restitution has to be made. Victims need to be made whole, (or at least as much as possible).
                  At least Bloomberg is unwittingly making a form of contrition.
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                  • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                    Restitution has to be made. Victims need to be made whole, (or at least as much as possible).
                    How much of that money do you think goes to victims? Do you actually care? Or are you scowling at the thought of 31,100 additional voters in a swing state.

                    Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                    At least Bloomberg is unwittingly making a form of contrition.
                    You misspelled undermining Republican-sponsored voter suppression

                    Also, you left out a few donors. It was Bloomberg...

                    And John Legend
                    And LeBron James
                    And Michael Jordan
                    And Stephen Spielberg
                    And MTV
                    And VH1
                    And Comedy Central
                    And Ben & Jerry's
                    And Levi Strauss & Co
                    And the Miami Dolphins
                    And the Miami Heat
                    And the Orlando Magic
                    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                    • Monies owed by criminals falls into the following standard categories: Fines, Court Costs, Victim Compensation Funds, Restitution, drug test fees and Supervision Fees. The largest costs in individual cases are either the supervision fees or the restitution that in many cases can climb into the tens of thousands of dollars for medical bills of the victims or to pay the retirees that have been taken by unscrupulous contractors. Not to mention the embezzlers or car thief’s that owe the insurance companies.
                      Last edited by surfgun; 23 Sep 20,, 02:48.

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                      • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                        Monies owed by criminals falls into the following standard categories: Fines, Court Costs, Victim Compensation Funds, Restitution, drug test fees and Supervision Fees. The largest costs in individual cases are either the supervision fees or the restitution that in many cases can climb into the tens of thousands of dollars for medical bills of the victims or to pay the retirees that have been taken by unscrupulous contractors. Not to mention the embezzlers or car thief’s that owe the insurance companies.
                        So, 2 out of 6 categories.

                        Let's look into this a little deeper. And no, I don't expect you to read this. Or care.

                        Criminalizing Poverty Through Fines, Fees, and Costs

                        On June 20, 2016, a distinguished panel of experts discussed how fines, fees, and costs in our justice system are criminalizing poverty by burying people unable to pay under ever-growing mountains of debt and imposing on the poor more severe punishments for failure to pay.

                        Legal Financial Obligations: What Are They?
                        There are many different terms used interchangeably across the country—such as monetary sanctions, legal financial obligations (LFOs), and assessments (e.g., in Illinois)—to describe the different fines, fees, and costs associated with offenses and the courts. For the sake of simplicity, in this article, we will use the term “LFO” whenever possible to refer to such fines, fees, and costs.

                        In the program on criminalizing poverty, Dr. Harris identified four systems of justice or “layers of legal debt” in which LFOs are imposed on people: traffic and misdemeanor, juvenile, felony, and federal. Then, within each of these layers of legal debt, there are types or “buckets” of LFOs. Dr. Harris has identified through her research the following buckets of LFOs:

                        Fines related to the offense. These fines range from an undefined amount (Delaware) to $500,000 (Kansas). Examples are a discretionary $1,000 drug conviction LFO for a first conviction and $2,000 for a second conviction (Washington).

                        Court-imposed user fees for processing. Examples are a mandatory $500 victim penalty assessment per felony (Washington), a $100 fee per felony (Washington), a $100 criminal cost fee (Indiana), a $193 felony docket fee (Kansas), and a $300 jury trial fee (Maine).

                        Surcharges for court and non-court-related costs. These are fees on top of the base charges, and they range from 0 to 83 percent. In Arizona, 10 percent of an 83 percent surcharge goes to a clean elections fund even though people with felony convictions paying this surcharge cannot vote; in Delaware, a 50 percent surcharge on fines goes to a transportation fund.

                        Collection costs and interest on unpaid balances. These directly create a two-tier system of justice by punishing those who are unable to pay with additional costs such as interest and penalties. Examples are 4.75 percent interest (Florida), 7 percent interest (Georgia), 12 percent interest (Washington), a 15 percent penalty on unpaid balances and a 30 percent collection fee (Illinois), and a 19 percent collection fee for delinquent payments and a $35 fee (Arizona).

                        Restitution for victim compensation. Restitution is the money owed to victims by offenders to compensate for the offender’s actions.

                        Spotlight on Restitution LFOs
                        At the webinar, Nick Allen delved into this last bucket of restitution LFOs and the issues they present.

                        Allen explained that, in the state of Washington, as in other states, restitution is an LFO that is part of the actual judgment, and for felony offenses, restitution is mandatory. “The court has no discretion to consider the defendant’s ability to pay when setting restitution,” emphasized Allen.

                        Allen recognized restitution as something that needed to be imposed. However, he clearly outlined some of the primary problems with how restitution is currently being used:

                        Victim compensation takes years or never happens. A defendant often owes, for example, $3,000 in restitution but can only afford to pay $10 per month. At that rate, the victim cannot be compensated for 25 years. If that amount is increased to $25 per month, then it is 10 years, without accounting for interest or a penalty.

                        Where there is no ability to pay, there is no way to complete restitution. If there is no ability to pay, there is no way to get out from under restitution or any other LFO, which leaves the offender bound to the system, forced into more serious debt, and suffering further from collateral consequences in employment, housing, etc.

                        There are no options for relief from restitution. In many states, such as Washington, once the judgment is entered, the only relief is making a payment. Restitution is almost impossible to undo and will never expire.

                        Laws implementing restitution create barriers. There are laws, as in Washington, that require collection of restitution before any other LFO. In some jurisdictions, this could mean that restitution has to be collected first per case. So, if there are three cases, the victim in the third case will not receive restitution until the first two cases are paid off.

                        Annual collection fees are assessed first. Court clerks and superior courts can charge an annual collection fee of $100 per year. This is not considered an LFO, so they collect this fee before paying out on the underlying LFO, including the restitution.

                        When it comes to LFOs, we do not seem to have an appreciation for the serious impact that poverty has on a person and his or her ability to meet an LFO. Allen best described it when he shared that “$500 or $600 for someone who has no ability to pay may as well be $1 million.” Multiply that by the various convictions that some people have and you are left with people who, no matter what their intentions or how hard they try to rectify the situation, are sentenced to harsher punishments and an even more devastating poverty from which they can never emerge.

                        Allen gave examples of Columbia Legal Services clients to explain how LFOs truly work against people who are unable to pay from the very start. One of the clients had LFOs from three different convictions in the early 2000s. Thefirst LFO was for $1,600 and is now close to $3,500 because of interest. The second LFO was $500 and became $1,319 before it was sent to collections in 2012. Once in collections, a 23 percent interest was added, so that LFO is now over $1,600. The third LFO started as $1,300 plus interest, which the client could also not afford to pay, so it was turned over to collections, where 50 percent was added to the outstanding balance, as allowed by Washington statute. On the third LFO, he owes $3,500 in principal and $3,300 in interest. He got a job, but the collection agency will not accept less than $200 per month, so he still cannot pay. He is in his mid-50s, has children to take care of, and is trying to find other ways to pay. Twenty-five percent of his income is taken out, so he can’t cover basic living expenses. “What started off as $3,400 in principal that he already lacked the ability to pay has now ballooned over $12,000 in LFOs, and there is really no end in sight because of the interest and because they are not going to expire,” Allen points out.
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                        “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                        • The article fails to mention the concept of jointly and severally restitution with codefendants.
                          It does point to the folly of supervision periods with restitution cases where is there is not an ability and or will to make said restitution. Especially, with relatively new roll out of the concept of “Justice Reinvestment Act’s.” Where straight sentences make much sense. In that scenario at least the victim has retribution through the perps incarceration since they were never going to get their restitution in the first place.

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                          • In a conspiracy-fueled attack, Trump warns Harris is being groomed to usurp the presidency


                            WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has struggled to land an effective attack against his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, so instead he is increasingly trying to elevate Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, offering dire warnings about the potential of her becoming president.

                            In attacks that critics decry as sexist and racist, Trump has sought to convince voters that supporting him is needed to stop Harris, whom he paints as too liberal and as being groomed to usurp the presidency.

                            "They're going to be running him ragged," Trump said at a rally Saturday in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

                            He proceeded to fabricate a White House conversation in which a President Biden was forced to sign documents he didn't understand. Trump mimicked him as saying: "I'm getting tired. I'd like to rest. I'd like to let Kamala take over as president!" drawing boos and jeers at the mention of Harris' name.

                            "That's no way to get into the office, because we're going to have a woman president someday, but you know what? It can't be Kamala," he said.

                            A person in the crowd interrupted to scream: "Never!"

                            Trump repeated her name: "Kamala."

                            Democrats say Trump is going after Harris because he hasn't been able to incite the same antagonism toward Biden, a white man, as he was able to fuel against his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton. They also describe his attacks as an attempt to distract from his mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump's attacks began before — and continued after — the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg threw an already chaotic election year into greater turmoil.

                            Trump's attacks on Biden — including unfounded claims about Biden's health and insinuations that he'd allow rioters to ransack the country — have failed to help him gain ground in the polls, which consistently show Trump trailing.

                            "He's doing it as a combination of trying to make Biden look feeble and doing some race-baiting on Kamala. And neither is going to work," said Stephanie Cutter, a co-founder of the consulting firm Precision Strategies, who was deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

                            "He's had a hard time getting anything to really stick to Joe Biden — whether it's 'sleepy Joe' or 'liberal Joe.' Now he's suggesting performance enhancing drugs," Cutter said in an interview. "Nothing is sticking because people have a pretty good sense of Joe Biden and what is at his core."

                            Some Republicans say the attack on Harris won't be enough.

                            "Defining Harris is a luxury. Defining Biden is a necessity," said campaign veteran Matt Gorman, a Republican consultant. "People vote for the presidential nominee, not the vice presidential nominee. The focus needs to be on defining Joe Biden."

                            'The Kamala Harris administration'

                            Asked to respond, the Biden campaign referred to prominent Black Democratic strategist Karen Finney, who alluded to Trump's stoking of false claims that Harris, an American born in Oakland, California, might not be eligible to be president.

                            "It's sadly not surprising Trump is resorting to his bigoted playbook — attempts at racist othering based on the same lies he used to attack President Obama, combined with typical sexist tropes aimed at trying to undermine Sen. Harris' credibility, hard work and numerous qualifications," Finney said.

                            Harris was the first woman and the first Black person to be California attorney general. She is the first Black senator to represent the state, and she would be the first woman — as well as the first Black and Asian American person — to be elected vice president.

                            A Trump surrogate, Jack Kingston, a former member of Congress from Georgia, said highlighting Harris' voting record in the Senate will resonate with swing voters in key states.

                            "This is an extreme liberal," he said, citing her positions on immigration and health care and echoing speculation about how long Biden would serve. "Some people are going to consider it, because it's doubtful that [Biden] could last four years."

                            Harris, 55, is a progressive senator from California who ended her bid for president late last year. She is the daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, and her rise represents a paradigm shift as the U.S. becomes a more ethnically diverse and socially liberal country. The pace of change has caused disaffection among some older voters, and Trump has been adept at capitalizing on it politically.

                            In Wisconsin last week, Trump said Harris was "further left than" Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described democratic socialist, and he claimed that she is "not as smart" as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., but is "a little bit less vicious."

                            Trump tweeted Monday: "His handlers and the Fake News Media are doing everything possible to get him through the Election. Then he will resign, or whatever, and we are stuck with a super liberal wack job that NOBODY wanted!"

                            A Trump fundraising text message to supporters Wednesday read, "THE KAMALA HARRIS ADMINISTRATION! The secret is out," before asking for donations. It came after Biden mangled his words in a speech and referred to a potential "Harris-Biden administration."

                            Biden led Trump by 51 percent to 43 percent in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday. Harris is seen favorably by 37 percent of voters and unfavorably by 38 percent, the survey found.

                            An NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Thursday found Biden leading Trump by 52 percent to 43 percent among likely voters. Biden also led by double digits among suburban voters and white college graduates, two constituencies that have fueled Republican victories in the past.

                            Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY's List, a group that works to elect Democratic women, said she has been expecting Trump to "start using sexist and racist tropes again on Kamala Harris — and here we go."

                            "I don't think he knows any other playbook. It is just who he is," Schriock said. "His base is pretty riled up. He's losing in all of these polls and not gaining any ground because he's had absolutely nothing to say to the rest of the country. ... And this kind of attack is not going to help him do what he would need to do to win."
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                            As usual Trump manages to find a new low.
                            “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                            • Not personally a great Kamala Harris fan; 'feisty' etc may be valuable campaigning/debating talents but hopefully Biden will last one term and the GOP (or some new Party) will return US politics toward a truth based choice. For let us not forget the basic aim of discrediting and defeating Trump is the longer term reform/rehabilitation of a US political Opposition. Only then can US democracy function again properly; when the basics facts are agreed as opposed to insane distortions of Trumpian Peter Pan world.

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                              • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                                The article fails to mention the concept of jointly and severally restitution with codefendants.
                                It does point to the folly of supervision periods with restitution cases where is there is not an ability and or will to make said restitution. Especially, with relatively new roll out of the concept of “Justice Reinvestment Act’s.” Where straight sentences make much sense. In that scenario at least the victim has retribution through the perps incarceration since they were never going to get their restitution in the first place.
                                I've tried to imagine the mental contortions necessary to even type that sentence out, vis-à-vis voter suppression through fines. But I guess you've got to go with something.

                                Meanwhile, back in Florida, in 2018 voters approved the law to return voting rights to felons who had completed their sentence (giving retribution to the victim, as you say) only to the Republican-controlled legislature amend the law to require court costs and fees to be paid before they were allowed to vote. The legislature knew that in doing so, many if not most of the people affected would not be able to that and would be right back where they started, effectively nullifying the wishes of the voters.

                                Guess the Republican-controlled Florida legislature didn't particularly care what the citizens of Florida wanted...

                                Now where did I read something along those lines...oh yeah:

                                Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                                As then and now the American People want a Republican Senate to rule in the matters of the Senate. Sorry, if that may leave a bad taste in your mouth?
                                Guess the will of the American people matters....right up until it doesn't.

                                “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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