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Kentucky’s GOP Governor Issues Hundreds of Pardons, Many Controversial, Before Leaving Office
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2019 Dec 16, 2:10pm 1,031 views 7 comments
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HeadSet
2019 Dec 16, 3:04pm
HeadSet
2019 Dec 16, 3:04pm
This is sick. But nothing will happen, anymore than anything happened when Bill Clinton had his last day in office pardon party. Ask Mark Rich.
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Ceffer
2019 Dec 16, 3:56pm
Ceffer
2019 Dec 16, 3:56pm
HeadSet says
And they say Trump has Russki mobsters and Putin with their dicks in his ass. Clinton also routinely pardoned all of his crime lords, drug dealing associates and hit men when he was Governor of Arkansas.
This is sick. But nothing will happen, anymore than anything happened when Bill Clinton had his last day in office pardon party. Ask Mark Rich.
And they say Trump has Russki mobsters and Putin with their dicks in his ass. Clinton also routinely pardoned all of his crime lords, drug dealing associates and hit men when he was Governor of Arkansas.
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Bd6r
2019 Dec 16, 5:56pm
Bd6r
2019 Dec 16, 5:56pm
OccasionalCortex says
Because they can not break the system "pay for play", even if the perp is a Fucking White male
Notice how the media NEVER investigates that?
Because they can not break the system "pay for play", even if the perp is a Fucking White male
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Shaman
2019 Dec 16, 7:03pm
Shaman
2019 Dec 16, 7:03pm
Well obviously this Bevin guy is a slime ball! There’s a reason he couldn’t get re-elected in a solid red state like Kentucky.
I’d hardly consider him typical of Republicans.
I’d hardly consider him typical of Republicans.
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Bd6r
2019 Dec 17, 8:13am
Bd6r
2019 Dec 17, 8:13am
Shaman says
Yeah,it takes special type of sleazy and stupid to lose to a D in KY. Having said that, he did somehow get through Republican primaries in KY meaning that he might be an accurate representation.
Well obviously this Bevin guy is a slime ball! There’s a reason he couldn’t get re-elected in a solid red state like Kentucky.
I’d hardly consider him typical of Republicans.
Yeah,it takes special type of sleazy and stupid to lose to a D in KY. Having said that, he did somehow get through Republican primaries in KY meaning that he might be an accurate representation.
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Shaman
2019 Dec 17, 10:36am
Shaman
2019 Dec 17, 10:36am
rd6B says
Primaries are the easiest to buy. Nobody shows up to vote but a small fraction of the people.
Shaman saysWell obviously this Bevin guy is a slime ball! There’s a reason he couldn’t get re-elected in a solid red state like Kentucky.
I’d hardly consider him typical of Republicans.
Yeah,it takes special type of sleazy and stupid to lose to a D in KY. Having said that, he did somehow get through Republican primaries in KY meaning that he might be an accurate representation.
Primaries are the easiest to buy. Nobody shows up to vote but a small fraction of the people.
Raise 21K for a politician, and then you have "get out of jail free card" which works even for murderers! Yay, Republicans!
Among the pardoned was Patrick Baker, who served just two years of a 19-year sentence for reckless homicide, impersonating a police officer, and tampering with evidence. Baker was convicted along with two others for a deadly 2014 home invasion where a father was killed in front of his family. Baker’s brother and sister-in-law raised $21,500 last year to retire Bevin’s 2015 gubernatorial campaign debt. They also donated $4,000 at the July 2018 fundraiser held at their home. Baker’s two co-defendants did not get pardoned by Bevin and remain in prison. “I’ve never seen a more compelling or complete case,” the sentencing judge said of Baker. “The evidence was just overwhelming.”
In addition, Bevin pardoned a man who was sentenced last year to 23 years in prison for raping a 9-year-old child, as well as a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for murder after giving birth in a flea market outhouse in 2003 and discarding the newborn. Bevin also released a man who had been in jail since 2003 for killing his parents and leaving their bodies in a basement when he was 16 years old, a man who hired a hit man to kill his business partner in 1991, and a man who had been on death row for a triple murder in 1983.
Peasants can go and skulk in their corners while Masters of Universe do whatever the hell they want.