Brownback goes to prison

LOL a dream come true for some of his constituents in Kansas!!

Presidential candidate stays in the pen
MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press

ANGOLA, La. - Sen. Sam Brownback took his budding presidential campaign to prison this weekend, spent a restless night among inmates and pressed his message that faith can work even to improve the lives of hardened criminals.

The Kansas Republican had no expectation that the drug cartel hit man, serial rapist or other convicts in his cell block would vote for him. After all, about nine in 10 of the inmates are serving life sentences. His mission at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, rather, was to promote religious-based prison efforts to curtail violence and provide inmates with an alternative to crime once - or if - they got out.

On Friday night, Brownback joined hundreds of inmates at a prayer service before prison officials escorted him to his modest sleeping quarters. On Saturday morning, he emerged from his 7-by-10-foot cell to tour the maximum-security facility and take a walk down death row.

"There aren't probably a lot of votes for me here," he said. "There can be a lot of prayers, though."

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Coward.

Prisons are not nice places. Even with a dozen guards outside your door, you can still hear the screaming of warehoused people with nothing else to do.

He just thinks he speaks for Jesus and that Jesus can fix anything and that he can run our lives better than we can. That makes him unfit for office.

Still, he's got guts for making the effort.

I do understand how this stunt could gain him some respect. But he is my senator and he SUCKS.

Now that he has a lock on lifers and talking fetuses, he can go after extraterrestrials, 18th century computer scientists, friends of George W. Bush, and homosexuals that dig Willard "Mitt" Romney.

:)

He has NO name recognition, so here's how he plans to get it.

At least on paper they do.

What's the name of that joint in Florida that's gone faith-based? Lawtey? Their recidivism rate is real low, so obviously a little of that Old Time Gospel Jailing is good for the soul.

And then you look at who gets into Lawtey. It is NOT an initial-intake facility--you must be transferred from another prison to Lawtey. You must have a very good record at your first prison. You must be close to your release date. IOW, faith-based prison is only for people who got their shit together in a secular joint first.

What Lawtey does is lets them put all the probable "success stories" in one place, so they can brag about how wonderful its program is. The fact that Jesus runs Lawtey is immaterial. Cthulthu could run Lawtey with the population it has, and the recidivism rate would still be low...would that drive a push for Cthulthu-based prisons in America?

I would LOVE for them to turn Starke--where the Florida death chamber is--into a faith-based prison. That place is full of people for whom prison did not work, or for whom prison will not work because they're career criminals. Show the faith-based prison movement for what it is.

"When I am in prison, visit me to so you can score political points and push a religious-industrial complex agenda." :eyes:

If he's such a great Christian, he'd respect that more. The longer I'm away from the evangelical church (in a different one now), the less it makes sense to me. What made him think that doing that, in the public eye for votes, rather than in secret, as we are instructed in the Gospels, was a good idea?

:(

Make no mistake I don't want him anywhere near elected office, but I think he genuinely believes he is doing good.

and power hungry.