Posted on 12/27/2018 6:19:00 PM PST by Olog-hai
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) is urging President Donald Trump to help reduce “shootings and homicides” in Chicago by increasing federal investment in housing, economic development, job training, education, public health and “community policing.”
“As you prepare your Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request, I urge you to use this budget framework as an opportunity to support efforts to help reduce gun violence in Chicago, rather than scapegoating the city’s challenges to promote ideological political agendas,” Durbin told Trump in a letter sent on Dec. 13.
“I urge you to prioritize federal support and resources that will help Chicago reduce violence by expanding economic opportunities and addressing health and education disparities in the hardest-hit communities,” Durbin said.
“The number of shootings and homicides that Chicago continues to experience is tragic and unacceptable,” Durbin told Trump. […]
“Reducing violence in Chicago requires a comprehensive approach involving partnerships with local education and health officials, law enforcement, community stakeholders, and the federal government. Through sustained and targeted investment of federal funding in underserved communities, the federal government can play an integral role in addressing the economic and societal issues that contribute to violence.” …
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Illinois has had that law since they revised their Constitution in the early 70's.
It's called a Firearm Owners Identification Card (FOID or just called a "gun card")
The law is a joke, and the State Police can reject your application for all sorts of reasons, some trivial.
He’s throwing a bone to the wall.
>>Might also help to have all the criminals get permits for their weapons .... when they come down to the police station to get their permit, simply arrest them.
Doesn’t stop them from going to the polls to go vote
http://www.govtech.com/e-government/E-Vote-Can-Voters-With-Outstanding-Warrants.html
FACT: Kentucky’s constitution states that voters cannot be arrested while voting, on their way to vote, or returning from their vote except in the cases of a violation of election laws and breach of surety of the peace. The voter registration rolls at the polls have no indicators whether a voter owes child support or has outstanding warrants against him or her. Outstanding arrest warrants, traffic offenses, unpaid parking tickets, or unpaid child support do not impact a voter’s eligibility to vote.
Know Your Rights On Election Day In Texas
http://www.kut.org/post/know-your-rights-election-day-texas
Voter Privilege From Arrest
Here’s the last — and maybe most surprising — right you have as a voter: privilege from arrest (kind of).
This part of the Texas Election Code mirrors a provision in the Texas Constitution — and some other state constitutions.
According to the Texas Law Library: “Its purpose was to protect against abuses of the arresting power by authorities who might have sought to influence elections.”
It basically prevents the police from waiting at polling places to arrest people with some outstanding warrants — except in cases of treason (!), felonies or “breach of the peace.”
“’Breach of the peace’ would cover most crimes other than felonies,” the analysis from the Law Library continues. “So the privilege would seem to extend primarily to arrests in civil suits - once a fairly common practice but almost unheard of now.”
But the Texas Secretary of State’s office gives this example:
“If … a voter has an arrest warrant out for unpaid speeding tickets and is afraid to go to the county courthouse for fear that he/she might be arrested, the voter is assured under this provision of the law that he/she cannot be arrested while going to cast a ballot or returning from casting one (with those three notable exceptions – treason, felony, breach of peace).”
No. He should self-exile .
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Besides, it is a political trap. Even if President Trump does increase funding, it will inevitably fail. Then the 'rats could (and no-doubt would) lay all the problems at the President's feet - his fault for ineffective measures etc.
"Federal investment" is a euphemism for forcing red-states to pay for the mistakes of blue states.
To prove this, let's try an experiment: suppose the National Popular Vote proponents were to suggest an interstate compact where states equaling 270 electoral college votes agreed to share their costs for "housing, economic development, job training, education, public health and 'community policing'" instead of their electoral college votes for President.
How many states would join this compact?
The answer is obvious... Democrat states want to force Republican states to pay for their problems, instead of asking all the Democrat states to band together and share the costs for fixing each other's problems.
-PJ
You want some money? Hey, so do we...25 Billion for a wall to be exact. Make a deal sport.
We spend more than 99% of world’s countries on K-12 education. And yet we are at the bottom among developed countries in student scores.
Tell SEN. DURBIN to tell his cronies to nix the Chicago SANCTUARY CITY & Illinois SANCTUARY STATE status.
FIRST THINGS FIRST.
And another insane communist lib that should have been jailed years ago...
Money. The liberal’s snake oil for 100 years.
The only solution democrats ever come up with for any problem is more wealth redistribution.
Can Dick ask Trump to build a wall around the black community? Imagine allowing the BC to police themselves as they see fit behind their own community walls, with check points and guards, residency documents, etc., and if they want criminals given early release then they can have it at the same time. Give them a grant to pay for necessary expenses, food stamps, but make sure that all residents pay taxes at the same time. Build those City Walls and see what crime stats look like in 24 months.... Would we see a population eating each other literally, or would law and order prevail. We need just one place like Chitown to implement a fence to keep crime in and out. Imagine forcing residents behind walls to act civilized and law abiding when they are outside their residency walls, but at the same time do what is acceptable within their communities as long as it is in their own communities.
Hey Dick less...why don’t you take all that money set aside to build Obama’s shower facilities, and use it to reduce shootings and homicides in Chicago.
That’s dems solution to everything, throw money at it. Societal breakdown? Throw money at it! Economy struggling? Throw money at it! Your dog ran away? Throw money at it!
CC
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Well played, sir.
CC
Hey, Dick, how about helping to build the wall and deport all the illegal aliens?
With all those jobs opening up, Chicagoans will be too busy to kill each other.
Dick Durbin is a moron. He obviously has never heard of states’ rights and that they have to ask for support to get it. The POTUS cannot just cross their border to do anything except defend the country as a whole.
According to the use of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which idiot Dick has not read apparently, it defines as “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Tenth Amendment protects Americans from big, intrusive federal government action. And along with the Ninth Amendment which warns against drawing any inferences about the scope of the people’s rights, they will not let the federal government take action without request. Like I said, Dick’s a moron. I always thought knowing the Constitution would be a major part of a senator’s job. Guess not.
rwood
This is not just Chicago. It's South Chicago where Obama was a community organizer. Where his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has been mayor for 8 years. What didn't he clean up this mess?
Typical democRATS. Screw cities up and turn then into "sh*tholes" and then expect the US taxpayers to bail them out and fix their toilets.
All the stuff Durbin wants are liberal democRAT solutions that never work.
Why should Trump agree to anything the democRATS want unless they agree to do what he wants?
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