Posts Tagged ‘crime’
CD1 Candidate Conversations: Libertarian Chris Manning
May 14, 2021 – Early voting has begun in the special election to fill Deb Haaland’s seat in the 1st Congressional District, and the candidates have begun a series of debates on local commercial TV stations. NMiF senior producer Matt Grubs speaks with Libertarian congressional candidate Chris Manning. The Libertarian Party selected the military veteran…
Read MoreThe Real Crime
Attack ads and contemporary political rhetoric about crime have a disturbing campaign ancestor: The Willie Horton ad that may have cost Michael Dukakis the presidential election in 1988. It relied on racism for its efficacy, and it ushered in an era of so-called “tough-on-crime” laws and posturing that nearly broke criminal legal systems, like the…
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