Kamala Harris: We Should Have A Conversation About Letting Felons In Prison Vote

What the heck is becoming of the democratic party? #walkaway

The fact that they are okay with someone who raped and murdered someone's daughter have the right to vote is insane.

 

I agree but apparently democrats eat this stuff up.

 

Democrats appeal to illegal aliens, convicted felons and drug addicts... but the Republicans are the party of deplorables? What EXACTLY is the Democrat definition of "deplorable"?

Regarding racist conspiracy theories, when is the left going to quit pushing the most racist conspiracy theory around today.... white privilege? Why any self-respecting white person would stick with a party that openly craps on them because of their skin color is baffling.

 

This is another good point...

 

I heard about Harris's comment on the news last night. My first thought was "Well, isn't the reporter attempting to have a conversation on it right now"?

"We need to have a conversation on it" is (D) speak for "Well, I want to see which way popular opinion goes before I commit to an opinion. If popular opinion is against it, then I will be against it and will claim to have been so for a long time. If public opinion is for it, then I will be as well and will claim to be an early crusader on this issue".

 

Well, your thread doesn't indicate that, since in THIS thread, she is responding to Bernie

DON LEMON, CNN HOST: Another issue that I want to talk to you about -- this is really important -- I'm not sure if you were watching earlier, but Senator Bernie Sanders said that he is in favor of felons being able to vote while serving in prison.

If you want to put this on Kamala first, post better URL's

And I 100% know what the topic is, and I disagree with both of em... No voting for felons while serving...

You guys really need to learn when somebody agrees with you....

 

When you go to prison you lose your rights period, your state or federal owned at that point.

 

I don't think violent criminals should have the right to vote even after they served their time. Look when you commit that kind of crime you lose right period.

 

Anyone in prison for a victim-less crime, (I can't believe that's still a thing in the land of the free,) should be allowed to vote. All the others; no. You'll never convince me that's a good idea.

 

Well, there we split ways... If your crime is truly violent enough, you may never leave prison anyway, so problem solved....

If you have the right to freedom of movement and general responsibility to earn a living and pay taxes again, you should have your right to vote restored..

There may be some crimes that fall in the middle ground between your position and my position, but they need to be addressed crime by crime...

 

Of course, the Unibomber was anti-capitalism.

 

There are almost no victim-less crimes except drug related ones.

 

Would you support getting on board with Vermont when it comes to felon gun rights as well?

I'm not sure what the Jim Crow comment is about felons losing rights decades back centuries and has nothing to do with the color of ones skin.

Every state has a process for felons to have their rights restored.

 

Ok do you want to give them back their 2nd amendment right as well? Not me...

 

There are plenty of victim-less crimes; most don't get you thrown in prison, though. Prostitution, drugs, driving without a seat belt, motorcycle without a helmet, hunting/fishing without a license, collecting rainwater without a license, etc.

Drugs is probably the only prison-able offense. I'm not sure about prostitution.

 

This is going nowhere, clearly the suspension of rights during incarceration is well established, which would make any move in that direction easily challenged. What districts would these prisoners vote for? Why should they have a voice in anything if they cannot contribute to society in any way? This sort of vote buying will turn more moderates away from Democrats than they'll pick up from the prisons if it were passed...

 

Hunting/fishing without a license is theft of wildlife from the rest of us.

The driving infractions are not crimes--they are driving infractions.

Not sure about the rainwater thing, but I'm betting it's not punishable by jailtime, so I doubt it's a crime either (also, it only exists in one state, Nevada).

I'll give you drugs and prostitution.

 

I did acknowledge that most are not prisonable offenses.

I'm not sure how giving money to the government makes an animal mine. Are you saying the government owns all the wildlife?

 

@Andrew Jackson doesn't know what it means to respond to the topic.

 

LEMON: But people who are in -- convicted, in prison, like the Boston Marathon bomber, on death row, people who are convicted of sexual assault, they should be able to vote?

HARRIS: I think we should have that conversation.

What a LAUGHABLE and utterly PATHETIC waste of space this stupid woman is! So DESPERATE for votes that she will say that child rapists and terrorists should be allowed to vote while in prison! Terrorists who have murdered US citizens because of a hatred of the US should be allowed to vote in US elections! How the hell is this not an absolute SCANDAL of the highest order? Has this been condemned by any of the other candidates? This pathetic waste of space should not be allowed to get away with this. This should be no different to a Republican candidate saying something racist. How can she be taken seriously as a candidate? And I see that the unbelievably USELESS and incompetent Don Lemon just let her get away with it like it was nothing! What a JOKE of a man he is!

 

i have no heartburn with that policy of allowing to vote after prison.

 

I'm saying that we the people own the wildlife. The government just makes regulations for fair use of those wildlife.

 

Including terrorists who have murdered US citizens because of a hatred of the US? Should they vote in an election of a country that they despise?

 

If they are a terrorist and they've committed a heinous violent act, chances of them being released from prison are about null.

BTW, most of the left (or at least many) are now starting to label the right as domestic terrorist. Grey the line and it's only a matter of time when one group will change the definition of another group and eliminate their rights based upon an opposing view point.

 

If we had a real media, she would be called out.

But this was CNN.