Rep. Pete King (R-NY) criticized Hillary Clinton’s Wednesday speech on race and prison reform and claimed that the former Secretary of State “perpetuated false narratives based on political correctness and liberal ideology.”
Pete King statement says Hillary forgot to thank Rudy Giuliani in her race relations speech yesterday. Big omission. pic.twitter.com/35cs6o4D31
— Colin Campbell (@BKcolin) April 30, 2015
King bashed Clinton for mentioning the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner without thanking police officers for their service.
“If Sec. Clinton were being honest about addressing race relations in America, she would have pointed to the progress made in New York City by the policies of Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD which reduced the murder rate by 80%,” King said in a statement.
In her speech, Clinton called for criminal justice reforms and said that the U.S. needs to end “the era of mass incarceration.”
Yes, and while she is at it, thank Guiliani for his serial racist comments about the POTUS.
The offensive, racist pig, Congressman Peter King should shut his mouth and stop trying to incite racial division. Hillary Clinton should thank Rudy Giuliani, one of the most racist politicians the city of New Your has ever known? A mayor that was a leader of stop-and-frisk; of mass incarceration of black men should be thanked for what, exactly?
F*ck you, Peter King.
I read Mrs. Clinton’s speech. I’ll tell you why Mr. Giuliani was not mentioned. The dramatic drop in crime over Giuliani’s term was due to two thing: 1) It was part of a national trend. 2) The reforms that Mayor Dinkins was able to put in place just prior to leaving office and Giuliani taking over.
While serving as mayor, Giuliani never once credited his predecessor for any of the reforms and how they helped in the reduction. No, all Giuliani did was force/allow law enforcement (some bad apples – not all) to just plain harass the hell out of many citizens. No, Giuliani never credited Mayor Dinkins’ efforts – but he sure took all the credit.
This, folks, is why Hillary Clinton never mentioned the mayor who served in between Mayor Dinkins and Mayor Bloomberg.
Yes she should have mentioned him, right after George Wallace, Ross Barnett and Orval Faubus.
“If Sec. Clinton were being honest about addressing race relations in America, she would have pointed to the progress made in New York City by the policies of Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg and the NYPD which reduced the murder rate by 80%,”
Mr. Garner still can’t breathe, Peter.