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Someone who wised up.
Former Democratic rep to become Republican?
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CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – Known for seconding the nomination of Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, Artur Davis is now denouncing the Democratic Party and leaving the door open to a future political bid as a Republican.
The former Alabama congressman announced on his website Tuesday night that he is switching his voter registration to Virginia, where he said he has lived since 2010, a move that represents a "closing of one chapter and perhaps the opening of another."
"I don't know and am nowhere near deciding," Davis wrote on his website about a potential future campaign. "If I were to run, it would be as a Republican."
Davis, the former four term congressman who lost his Democratic primary bid for Alabama governor in 2010, said individuals have suggested he run for a congressional seat in northern Virginia or a seat in the Virginia legislature.
Whatever his future holds, he said it will not play out with him as a member of the Democratic Party, a party he said has changed greatly since the Bill Clinton administration.
Although Davis was a supporter of Barack Obama during the 2008 election, he sometimes bucked his party in Congress and voted against the president's signature health care law. And in his latest writing he said "the symbolism of Barack Obama winning has not given us the substance of a united country."
Davis took issue with the federal government weighing in on immigration at the state level and an agenda that would "punish businesses and job creators with more taxes."
"Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities," Davis wrote.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/30/artur-davis-becoming-a-republican/
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Someone who wised up.
Former Democratic rep to become Republican?
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2012/images/05/30/t1larg.artur.davis.may30.jpg)
Posted by
CNN Political Unit
(CNN) – Known for seconding the nomination of Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, Artur Davis is now denouncing the Democratic Party and leaving the door open to a future political bid as a Republican.
The former Alabama congressman announced on his website Tuesday night that he is switching his voter registration to Virginia, where he said he has lived since 2010, a move that represents a "closing of one chapter and perhaps the opening of another."
"I don't know and am nowhere near deciding," Davis wrote on his website about a potential future campaign. "If I were to run, it would be as a Republican."
Davis, the former four term congressman who lost his Democratic primary bid for Alabama governor in 2010, said individuals have suggested he run for a congressional seat in northern Virginia or a seat in the Virginia legislature.
Whatever his future holds, he said it will not play out with him as a member of the Democratic Party, a party he said has changed greatly since the Bill Clinton administration.
Although Davis was a supporter of Barack Obama during the 2008 election, he sometimes bucked his party in Congress and voted against the president's signature health care law. And in his latest writing he said "the symbolism of Barack Obama winning has not given us the substance of a united country."
Davis took issue with the federal government weighing in on immigration at the state level and an agenda that would "punish businesses and job creators with more taxes."
"Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities," Davis wrote.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/30/artur-davis-becoming-a-republican/
UNCLE TOM
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Lol. Black socialists seem perfectly happy to stay dumb broke and stupid. Fuck m. Same w whites too.
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Why is he an uncle Tom?
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95 percent of blacks has been brainwashed and have bought into communism and socialism and victim hood.
Its awful.
Why is he an uncle Tom?
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95 percent of blacks has been brainwashed and have bought into communism and socialism and victim hood.
Its awful.
I think it's wrong for a black man/woman to be referred to as a Tom or a traitor if they decide to go against their kind. Black people stick together better than whites, which I guess is why they get called toms if they don't go with the flow of their people, but they shouldn't. A buddy of mine and I were at these chicks house after college, and these chicks were in grad school. One of the girls was black, and called my buddy a Tom. I don't understand it, she had white friends too, but she called him a tom.
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95 percent of blacks has been brainwashed and have bought into communism and socialism and victim hood.
Its awful.
how old are you ???
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Chicago's murder rate mirrors war zone, federal data shows
With NATO summit over, city’s crime back on front-burner
By NOLAN PETERSON
Medill News Service
If Chicago were a war zone, it would be a deadlier one for Americans than Afghanistan.
In fact, according to the Department of Defense and FBI data, the number of Chicagoans murdered is two and a half times U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001.
With NATO in the rear-view mirror, area law enforcement officials and politicians will turn their attention away from unruly protestors back to the city's rising murder rate - up 54 percent from last year, according to police data.
Last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new strategy to combat gang activity in crime hot spots to halt the killing. The strategy, called a "wraparound plan," focuses on improving neighborhood services after police descend on an area to target and remove gangs.
"Once we make arrests, and we eliminate a narcotics organization, we are committed to holding onto that turf, to that territory, to squeeze out the drug market and the violence," said Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy last week.
Homicides in Chicago have spiked this year, though overall crime is down. Chicago has had 169 murders in 2012, compared to 110 at the same date last year. Overall, the city's crime rate is down 11 percent from last year.
According to FBI and Department of Defense data, 5,056 people have been murdered in Chicago since 2001, compared with 1,976 total U.S. deaths in Afghanistan since 2001. Chicago's murder rate even outpaces total NATO coalition fatalities in Afghanistan since 2001 by a difference of more than 2,500 killed.
The proposed wraparound plan is part of McCarthy's broader strategy to use data to concentrate police resources in troubled parts of the city, a strategy that reduced overall crime rates in New York by 80 percent in the 1990s.
One of the programs developed in New York in the 1990s was a data-mapping system used to identify crime hot-spots. McCarthy brought the system, called CompStat, to Chicago last year; it helps police identify neighborhoods in which crime is likely to occur by tracking crime report trends.
"Smart policing is about using resources and information to prevent violence," said Andrew Papachristos, a Harvard sociologist who studies street gangs, violent crime and gun violence. "It's not about going out and arresting people, it's about cooling people down."
According to the Chicago Crime Lab, a research program at the University of Chicago, New York's turnaround in the 1990s was accomplished without mass incarcerations.
Incarceration rates actually decreased by 28 percent in New York, while the national incarceration rate increased by 65 percent during the same period.
Controversial strategies used in New York, such as the aggressive "stop and frisk" program, have not been adopted in Chicago. Explanations for the surge in Chicago murders range from the unseasonably warm winter to a police personnel shortage due to budget cuts. According to City Hall, the police department is short nearly 2,300 officers.
Papachristos, however, argues that despite Chicago's need for more cops, a good policing strategy can still reduce crime.
"Smart policing is better than more policing," he said. "It's not about how many people you have on the street, but having the right people on the street - one good cop is better than three average cops."
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I wonder where he has been the past 45 years. The Democrats havent been what he thought they were since the mid 60s. Bill Clinton was just a political camileon that shifted with the political atmosphere. What's sad is that I think there are a lot of registered Democrats who are like this guy. They dont realize how hard left thier party is because they dont pay much attention to politics. I think that is a big reason why you see more registered Democrats than Republicans, even though Conservatives outnumber liberals 2-1.