Joe Courtney Opposes Sex Offender Registry
By Erick Posted in 2006 — Comments (16) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Does Connecticut really want to elect a guy like Joe Courtney? That's who the Democrats have put up to run against Congressman Rob Simmons. But, while in the state legislature, Joe Courtney voted against a law that would have created a registry for sex offenders. In fact, Courtney was only one of 10 state legislators to vote against the law.
At time time, Courtney called it a "good honest protest vote."
“The point of requiring sexual predators to register with local police is to keep track of the offenders and protect children,” said Simmons for Congress campaign manager Chris Healy. “There was nothing good or honest about Joe Courtney’s vote to protect the privacy of sex offenders. Rob Simmons knew that, and that’s why he voted in favor of requiring convicted sexual predators to register with local law enforcement. It gives law enforcement the tools they need to protect children from sex offenders.”
So, focus all you want on Mark Foley, but just remember, the Democrats have offered up a candidate who'd make life a lot easier on people like Foley than the GOP would.
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blatantly misleading front-page stories in two days trying to play "Democrats are worse!" with the Foley scandal.
And you guys wonder why people are ready to vote Republicans out of power...
Been here before, brendanm98. Had Jerome Armstrong himself solemnly assure me that the House was going to go back to the Dems in 2002 (and that the Senate was going to shift left, too), back in my dKos days. Was told without a blink that Dean/Clarke/Kerry was going to take the whole enchilada in 2004, and bring with them a tidal shift that would retake at least part of Congress. Got solemnly assured that this apple that Shipwreck threw would be the apple that would stop the rampaging monster, and thus save the GI Joe team... sorry, wrong forum.
Anyway, I've sat through No Blood for Oil, Unocal Pipelines in Afghanistan, St. Robert Fisk, the Brutal Afghan Winter, the Rush to War (Years One through Eleven), the TANG memos, National Loyalty Day, Extraordinary Renditions, The Turkey Photo, Maher Arar, Mission Accomplished, Abu Ghraib, Quagmires (Parts One through Sixty-Four), GITMO, Museum Looting, Economic Recession Spin (Parts One Through Five Million, Seven Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Eight Hundred and Five), The Great Selective Geneva Convention Quotation Party, Confederate Cemetary Wreaths, The First Lady's Vehicular Homicide Accident, The Great Selective UNSC Resolution Quotation Party (with extra confusion between Section 6 and Section 7!), 9/11 Conspiracy (The Jews), 9/11 Conspiracy (MIHOP), 9/11 Conspiracy (LIHOP), The Great Ashcroft Breast Coverage/No Coverage Constroversy, My Pet Goat, everything Michael Moore's said for the last five years, Plamegate, Fitzmas, the National Media and their Government Agency Leak-o-Rama (Parts One through Infinity), Halliburton, Halliburton, HALLIBURTON!!!!!, St. Rachel Corrie, NSA wiretapping, Son of Echelon, Seymour Hersh and His Amazing Damning Revelations of Surfacing Real Soon Now, Diebold, Culture of Corruption, the Nineteen Words and Not In Your Name*. All of which were going to take down this Administration and the GOP.
So... we'll see. Maybe this apple will work. It eventually did in the cartoon, after all.
Moe
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
*Trust me, we know. We'll be holding everyone who said so to it, too.
Democrats do have an unnatural talent for shooting themselves in the foot and there's a lot of time left.
But I rather think something more than misdirection is going to be demanded of Republicans by voters. As you say I guess we'll see. I'm getting my Red/Blue state US map ready to go, looking forward to following the races on election night =)
I figure I'll be up until 3 AM, as usual, and drinking heavily, also as usual. It's the only way to run one of those monster open election threads. :)
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
I like to beat up on Dems as much as the next guy, but this argument is definitely a reach.
This was our bad. We need to stand up and take responsibility for the Foley Scandal.
The way they anthropomorphize their little toys, and talk about how "we need to this" and "we did that" is so cute.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
...conservative weblogs pretending to be one, when in reality he's a liberal trying to cause trouble. Comes from here. I believe that the equivalent term of art Over There is 'concern troll'.
Moe
PS: Jury's still out. You could have wised up since college.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
but as someone who lost a step-daughter (raped/strangled) to a registered 3rd degree sex offender 10 months ago, I can tell you a Sex Offender Registry is far from all we need. Personally I'd go for a scarlet tattoo, chains and electronic tracking. Well, actually I think they should all be executed, but that's just me (and my husband).
This cretin in CT deserves to be slammed every which way for his loathesome stand. Go Simmons.
The "sex offender" category is so vague, it prevents us from doing what we need to do to those who commit forcible rape, molest children under 13, and things like that. What we need to do is end that whole farce, and just start giving life in prison for forcible rape, and the death penalty to child rapists.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
While it was an internal poll, a a recent poll done by Public Opinion Strategies (quite a reliable polling firm, IMO) found Simmons leading by a whopping 50%-36% in a survey done about 10 days ago. That coupled with the independent survey released yesterday by the University of Connecticut that found Shays up 5 points suggests that the Dems hopes for drowning the CT GOP reps may be seriously failing. Having Lieberman and Rell flooding moderates and Republicans to the polls isn't likely to boost the Dems, either.
"Courtney, with a mixture of exasperation and anger, said he did initially vote against the bill because it would have created a one-year sex offender registry that was unavailable to the public and the press." Cite
Isn't the purpose of a sex offender registry to inform the public that an offender has moved into their neighborhood? I'm not sure how a registry that neither the public nor the press can view actually helps keep our children safer, and therefore I'm not sure I agree that this Democratic candidate would "make life a lot easier" on people like Foley.
I realize we're all looking for reasons to take the focus off of Foley, but this may not be the silver bullet.