Posted on 04/10/2015 10:44:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Republican senator Rand Paul walked out of a live interview with the Guardian on Friday, in the third testy exchange he has had with a journalist since launching his campaign for president three days ago.
Paul, who said during his campaign launch on Tuesday he would like to see “any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed”, responded awkwardly when asked which specific piece of legislation he would repeal.
In a live broadcast via the smartphone app Periscope, Paul said he had “a host of bills” that would amend or repeal part of the statute.
Midway through his answer, he added: “Let me answer the question, you complain I don’t answer the question … I am giving you the specifics.”
Paul spoke about the various pieces of bipartisan legislation he has brought to reform the criminal justice system, but did not point to a specific criminal law that he would repeal.
In his final question, he was asked about research showing that white Republicans do not agree with his view that the criminal law is applied in an unequal fashion.
“I think your premise is incorrect,” he said. “Actually I think I can take that message into a white evangelical church anywhere in Iowa and give exactly the same speech and be received well.”
When the reporter attempted a follow-up remark quoting a Washington Post-ABC poll about Republican views on criminal justice, Paul walked off camera.
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My birth certificate says I was born and bread here in the good old USA, a red blooded American..
Check it out, go ask Jim Robinson, been here on Free Republic since 2004 ..
Britebart reports Guardian lied
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Pro-life libertarians.
So, yeah. Go suck eggs troll.
You can’t show me a lie or misquote, and you lie about the platform of the party that you used to vote for.
Zero restrictions on abortion, including full term abortion.
And you were voting for completely open borders, no wonder you are a troll.
Why are you doing the dirty work of foreign Communists? You seem awfully proud of your foreign Communist lies.
He certainly did throw it out to appeal for the ‘black’/colored votes. He is demonstrating by his words that he is a demagogue for self aggrandizement. No statesman character in the least.
Me ? A Ted Cruz supporter a foreign communist ?
Hear that folks ? So now Ted Cruz supporters are foreign communist ?
Hear that Jim Robinson ? Plummz is saying now that Ted Cruz supporters are foreign communists.
Hey 2nd Division vet ?
Hear what Plummz said ? So now Ted Cruz supporters are foreign communist.
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