Beer Bastards - Episode 7 - Austin Petersen, Rand Paul, Voting, and Elections
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Rand Paul: US Dangerously Close To Insolvency - 2/13/2013
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BOWIE, Md. -- Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) renewed his call for criminal justice reform in a wide-ranging speech Friday at Bowie State University, a historically black college in Maryland. Addressing students, local leaders, and activists as part of his minority outreach effort, Paul stressed the need to roll back civil asset forfeiture and mandatory minimum sentencing laws ahead of a likely bid for president in 2016.
"If were for families with a mother and father around, we need to be for fixing the criminal justice system," he said, framing reform as an economic issue of interest to all Republicans.
"Criminal justice, or the lack of criminal justice, its not a black or white problem," he added, "It's a poverty problem."
The libertarian-leaning conservative spoke for about 30 minutes, referencing black leaders he agreed with on matters of criminal justice reform, such as President Barack Obama, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Martin Luther King, Jr., and telling stories about African-Americans who were unfairly criminalized due to harsh sentencing laws.
"There's a racial outcome to this. I don't think there's a racial intention," he said. "But I tell people that I think they're not looking if they don't think that the incarceration problem in our country is not skewed towards one race. I don't think it's purposeful but I do think it is actual and it is real and we should do something about it.
Paul also spoke out against civil asset forfeitures, and called for restoring voting rights to nonviolent ex-felons.
"If you smoked some pot or grew marijuana plants in college, I think you ought to get a second chance," he said.
Paul teamed up with Booker last year to introduce legislation aimed at breaking the cycle of incarceration for nonviolent offenders. The REDEEM Act would have automatically expunged or sealed records for juveniles who commit nonviolent crimes. Several of his supporters collected signatures on Friday for a petition backing the bill, which Paul and Booker reintroduced this week.
The senator also issued a warning about National Security Agency surveillance programs, reminding an audience composed of about as many African Americans as whites to "think about how Martin Luther King's phone was tapped."
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), heading to Texas this weekend for the South by Southwest digital-palooza, will open an Austin office for his RANDPAC political committee as part of his effort to attract tech talent and appeal to younger voters.
Paul, who also plans a Bay Area office, will speak Monday afternoon at the office opening in the Capital Factory complex. The outpost, according to RANDPAC, will center on digital engagement and product innovation.
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Paul chatted with POLITICO Playbook as he kicked off a busy four days of political travel, ahead of his expected announcement next month that hell seek the 2016 GOP nomination.
On Friday afternoon, Paul speaks on criminal-justice reform at Marylands Bowie State University, one of the nations oldest historically black colleges and universities. On Sunday evening in Austin, on the third day of South by Southwest, Paul appears with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith to discuss how technology has transformed politics, campaigning, governing and citizen engagement.
POLITICO: Why Bowie State?
PAUL: A young man wrote us, one of their students, wrote us about some of the things weve been trying to do, and so we contacted him. Ive been saying for a couple of years now that Republicans need to go where we havent been going, and we need to ask new voters to come and join us. And I think theres a great opportunity for us. Theres only upside potential for us. I think theres a lot of our message that will resonate beyond where weve tried in the past. We just have to take it there."
POLITICO: Do you get any hostility when you speak in a place like Detroit?
PAUL: Most people have actually been very friendly. The most common response I get is: Were glad youre here and were glad youre competing for our vote. Weve gone probably a couple of generations now where everyone has automatically assumed that virtually all of the African-American vote is Democrat. So Republicans dont bother to go to any venues that are predominantly African American, and then the voters get pigeonholed that way. But then they get disappointed that their Democrat representatives dont want to show up, because they take them for granted.
POLITICO: What will your message be at Bowie State?
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