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Posted at 8:52pm on Apr. 8, 2008 Tennessee Edukasion: Lynn Lang Gets Reinstated

By Erick

I mentioned this in my new column at Human Events, but it is worth sharing here.

Blue Collar Muse has the tale of Lynn Lang, a high school basketball coach and teacher turned felon.

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Posted at 8:50am on Feb. 20, 2008 Promising early release to win criminal votes... Does it get much smarmier than this?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Suddenly things are starting to make a lot more sense, and at the same time make less sense than ever before.  Stop scratching your head, I'll explain.

Last year when the State was facing a massive budget shortfall en route to a $2.4 BILLION Democrat tax hike there wasn't much clamoring for cost cutting or reform inside the Dem caucus or the Governor's office.  But there was one are that we heard about again and again (and again).  Corrections.  Governor Granholm wanted to cut corrections funding by closing prisons, firing guards and corrections employees and releasing literally thousands of dangerous predators onto the street.  

By the grace of God and a bit of GOP spine we've avoided the massive early release programs to this point but even after the Democrats got their way on the tax hike they've refused to let the corrections issue go.  They're determined to unleash criminals onto the street years before they would be otherwise eligible.  

Law enforcement officials have called it a bad idea.  The Democrats persist.

Republican lawmakers have called it a bad idea.  The Democrats persist.

Ask any one on the street at least two blocks away from MDP headquarters and you'll hear the same objections.  But the Democrats persist.

State Senator Alan Cropsey has gone over a variety of studies that indicate the Granholm administration's numbers are either fuzzy or just plain wrong.  And still the Democrats persist.  `Release the felons,' they clamor.

But why?  What's the angle?  What's the end game?  Significantly threatening public safety just for the heck of it?  To protect the Governor's husband's taxpayer funded full-time staff?  No.  There are better, easier ways to save more cash than to cut loose tried and convicted lawbreakers.  

Well this morning things are finally starting to make sense.  The Ivory Tower reports that the Dems have a new targeted voting block that they hope to turn out in big numbers this November and they're just the kind of people who want to hear the words "early release."  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is because they're BEHIND FREAKING BARS!

East Lansing political consultant Mark Grebner has a new get-out-the-vote program for Michigan Democrats. Among his target groups: prisoners.

It's a group Grebner says is often eligible to vote but doesn't for reasons including "an utter lack of political interest and knowledge" and "low level of literacy and inability to follow directions."

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