My Mistake

On last Saturday's NARN show, Brian "Saint Paul" Ward and I said that the Minneapolis mayor's race was basically a joke, a run-off between two candidates who are, at day's end, merely different types of DFL machine hack.

Which is true.

But we'd be mistaken, as Minnesota Democrat Exposer notes, to think this doesn't have impact on other races in Minnesota:

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak said last night during his debate with Peter McLaughlin on KSTP that 70% of the people who committed a murder in Minneapolis in the past year were on parole from Hennepin County.

Click here to watch the video.

Hennepin County Attorney and U.S. Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar must have loved Rybak's comments.

But they're comments that need to be made.

And then held against Klobuchar.

Hennepin County's drive-through criminal justice system - put on display last summer in an incident in which a man accused of shooting a man five times in the arm, face, chest and groin was released on bail several times from Hennepin County custody - and proceeded to violate his bail several times (thankfully not hurting anyone in the process) - is a disgrace, the very definition of "catch and release" justice.

Posted by Mitch at October 31, 2005 06:39 PM | TrackBack