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VP Candidates and Crime

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

A few notes on the Vice-President candidates and crime: The Pewsitter website has a set of quotes from Gov. Sarah Palin, including this one from her 2006 campaign site: "I support adequate funding for a strong public safety presence in Alaska. Feeling safe in our communities is something we cannot accept any compromise on. This includes policing in all its forms, the court system, prosecutors and corrections. If the legislature passed a death penalty law, I would sign it. We have a right to know that someone who rapes and murders a child or kills an innocent person in a drive by shooting will never be able to do that again." The site quoted here is gone, replaced with an auto-refer to the McCain/Palin site. Sen. Joseph Biden has a record that is decidedly mixed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 30, 2008 (boomark / email).