Rep Jeffries just pointed out on @CNN it was Bernie who voted yes on 94 crime bill; not Hillary. Bam

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Rep Jeffries just pointed out on @CNN it was Bernie who voted yes on 94 crime bill; not Hillary. Bam!!! Oh & the CBC endorses her.





................The [Clinton] campaign announced the endorsement of South Carolina House Democratic Leader J. Todd Rutherford on Wednesday and a slew of other political leaders in the state.

Rutherford joined Jeffries in sharply denouncing Sanders for being "missing in action" on issues that matter to black voters.

[For Trump and Sanders, new challenges loom after victory in N.H.]

Rutherford faulted Sanders for voting in favor of a 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which has been blamed for helping to usher in an era of mass incarceration. Former president Bill Clinton, who signed the bill into law, has expressed regret for the consequences of the legislation.


"He only really started talking about issues concerning African Americans in the last 40 days," Rutherford said. "On the question of social justice for African Americans, the record is thin.".............



Black leaders who support Hillary Clinton slam Bernie Sanders on race issues

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/10/black-leaders-who-support-hillary-clinton-slam-bernie-sanders-on-race-issues/



By Abby Phillip February 10 at 3:25 PM

[Nanjeanne]

1. And because Jeffries is being honest

I'm sure he pointed out that Bernis denounced the bill in every form but they then added into it The Violence Against Women Act and he felt he had to vote for it. Right?

I'm sure he mentioned this:
Even in 1991, Bernie spoke against what he saw as a, “so-called crime prevention bill… let’s be honest, this is not a crime prevention bill this is a punishment bill”—

Didn't think so.

[casperthegm]

9. Yep, but it will make a great sound bite for Clinton and her super pacs I bet

I can definitely see her super pacs mentioning this in an ad and conveniently leave out the rest of the story. Politics, gotta love it.

[Nanjeanne]

18. Absolutely. Unfortunately that's what politics is

Sound bites for the media to promote.

Clinton's campaign can't seem to focus on her positives so they have to mislead the public. And the media help

Bernie isn't a soundbite candidate. He believes people should be smart enough to to fully understand issues and complicated votes. He is going to have to find a way to beat back the innuendo and half-truths of the Clinton campaign. And it's hard when he has at his core, integrity and honesty.

[casperthegm]

23. If I was his campaign manager I'd prepare him for this crap tonight

I'd have Bernie turn to the moderators and say "The fact checkers are going to have their hands full tonight."

[polly7]

33. Yes, that is his biggest problem.

He needs to start calling out the lies and half-truths for what they are a LOT more forcefully - oh ... but then it'll be back to 'angry man'. It's hard to win against these kinds of tactics but now that he has a good, savvy team, hopefully they'll respond to each and every slime and not let her go unchallenged with a single one of them.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Exactly, these two videos tell the true story:

And this is why he voted for the VAWA:

But when you're a Hillary surrogate you don't do nuance and context.

[virtualobserver]

27. when you're a Hillary surrogate you do dishonesty......that explains the vote in NH

in the group that cared about honesty, Bernie won 92 percent of the vote.

So what is their strategy going forward?.....doubling down on dishonesty.

[polly7]

36. +1,000,000. nt.

[Duckhunter935]

26. so to put it in context

He voted for the violence against woman's act and the rest of that big bill but spoke against that part of the crime bill just as he always has been. We are smart enough to know the context and point out the smear. Hillary of course will try that too

[cali]

2. Deceitful crap from hilly flacks

They all disgust me with their hypocrisy

[HerbChestnut]

5. It's only going to get uglier

Their backs are against the wall so they're going to try and drive every narrative they can.

[cali]

6. Yes, and if you criticize a black elected official, they'll call you a racist

I've already had it happen.

[Punkingal]

41. Me, too.

I said that in 2004 John Lewis endorsed a Congressional candidate in Nevada that had gone to a Bush fundraiser and was a former law partner of Ted Olson. I was at the NV state convention and saw this speech, and it was very disappointing to me.

I was attacked for saying that. I didn't say he was evil incarnate...just that I was disappointed in him. I respect his Civil Rights work, he is a hero, but he is not a saint. But you can't even speak truth or common sense here without being accused of throwing someone under the bus, a phrase I have come to hate, or worse being told you are racist.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Deceitful? So you deny that he voted for it?

[Matt_in_STL]

11. It must be nice to believe there is no nuance in politics

I wish I could be as naive.

[cali]

13. Do you actually think all votes are cut and dried. If

he hadn't voted for it. Hilly toadies would be slamming him for voting against the Violence Against Women Act. Sometimes, voting in Congress is a Catch-22. If you actually give a shit about fairness, you'd watch the video of him up on this page.

[thesquanderer]

17. The bill also included an assault weapons ban

So you know that, if he had voted against it, they'd be throwing that against him now, too.

[Duckhunter935]

29. yes he voted for the violence against woman's act

And spoke out on the floor about that part of the crime bill. Yes Hillary is being deceit full. He was right, she is throwing the kitchen sink at him.

[SwampG8r]

34. Im just glad when he vetoed it bill was so stro g on the issue

Oh wait ......he never did veto it he signed it over from a bill to a law.

[TheFarS1de]

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[Duckhunter935]

30. glad it was not hidden

But I would not have used that Nam myself. The Hillary surrogates have nothing but posting have true deceitful post's. The think we are stupid or something.

[TCJ70]

3. *facepalm*

She COULDN'T vote for it...

[thesquanderer]

22. Right. But she did support it, and it was her husband's bill. (nt)

[Duckhunter935]

31. and he spoke against it but had to vote yes as it

Includes the violence against woman's act.

[Broward]

4. Jeffries, just another dishonest in-the-tank establishment politician.

No surprise there.

[cali]

8. Watch out. The new tactic is to insinuate you're a racist

for daring to criticize a black elected official.

[Nanjeanne]

21. The others didn't work so now you are right

It's Racism

And TAXES.

Mark my words. They will all be repeating those lines.

[Mnpaul]

12. What Hillary said about the bill

In her support for the 1994 crime bill, for example, she used racially coded rhetoric to cast black children as animals. “They are not just gangs of kids anymore,” she said. “They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”

[UglyGreed]

15. beat me to it

[beam me up scottie]

16. "Super predators" and "bring them to heel" Disgusting.

Not to mention her racist 2008 campaign.

Hillary's supporters really need to stop pointing fingers at Bernie because no one has forgotten her record.

[m-lekktor]

20. wow. very interesting! nt

[Duckhunter935]

35. can you find bernies speech

He had to vote for the bill due to other provisions

[Bluenorthwest]

42. Some of us are old enough to remember and I took part in the opposition to the Crime Bill

It had the support of a strong majority of Democrats, 2/3s of the Black Caucus and all leadership of that caucus were in favor of the Crime Bill. In the Senate, only 2 Democrats voted No, Russ Feingold and Richard Shelby. 54 Democratic Senators including Kennedy, Biden, Kerry and Boxer carried the Crime Bill to victory in the Senate.

I objected to Bernie's vote, to the votes of both of my Senators, my Rep was Maxine Waters who was a no vote. Of course Hillary Clinton was a strong advocate prior to the passage of the law and an ardent defender of the law and of the results of the law for years afterward.

[UglyGreed]

14. .

[Art_from_Ark]

19. And who signed that bill into law?

Who was President in 1994?

Here's a big, fat hint

http://www.c-span.org/video/?60148-1/crime-bill-signing-ceremony

[Divernan]

32. Mr. Kotter! Mr. Kotter! It was Bill Clinton!

[Vinca]

25. Hillary is not pure on this.

If we're going for a trip in the wayback machine, this is mandatory reading:

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/

[Uponthegears]

28. Kinda funny

What passes for your "lead story"

How do you spell "desperate?"

Hint: It starts with an "H"

[uponit7771]

37. yeap

[djean111]

38. Hillary was not in office, she of course could not vote for it.

And it was stuck into a bill that Bernie would have been criticized for if he had not voted for it.

Doesn't make Hillary palatable, anyway. Nothing said about Bernie can make Hillary palatable to me. Nothing negates war, fracking, cluster bombs, the TPP, Wall Street cronyism. Nothing at all.

[jeff47]

39. Did Rep Jeffries explain why Sanders should have voted against the Violence Against Women act?

Did he explain why Hillary Clinton lobbied for the bill?

[PonyUp]

40. Looks like your 'Bam' was a dud. Where's the rest of the story? n/t

[AZ Progressive]

43. This thread explains Bernie's vote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511199494