Prosecutors gone wild. Please welcome david keene from the washington times, former u. S. Attorney sidney powell, and kevin ring from families against mandatory minimums. The panel will be moderated by pat nolan, Acu Foundation center for criminal Justice Reform. [applause] thank you. The data should send chills up your spine. Over the last several years prosecutors have injected themselves into the political process going after and trying to take down governor perry, governor mcdonnell, governor walker. Add in the nest this is a, james okeefe, senator ted stevens they are assassinating our leadership politically. And using the courts to do it, and using underhanded tactics as was pointed out in the ted stevens case, their corruption was so bad, there lies to the judge and theyre hiding of evidence and witnesses was so brad that the judge so bad that the judge appointed a a special prosecutor to go after them. This is a problem for all of us. If they can do that to a powerful u. S. Sen
Age and a lot of young people being out of the country to go to work in the tobacco fields, and so i went to work in the tobacco field picking up leaves and the tobacco barns tobacco was king at one time and Gaston County where i grew up. So, you know, it was a dollar a day. It was big money for me at the time. When i go back and look at my Social Security card, its interesting to see how long its been since ive been working. A dollar a day . A dollar a day. Did you continue to work through childhood . I worked in tobacco fields up until around age of 14 or 15 because i was elected allergic to the back of my doctor bills was costing more than what i was making during the summer. So that i left for the city and i went into tallahassee to find jobs. I guess the greatest job i had was in a grocery store, Colonial Grocery store, ill never forget. Bagging groceries, and moved up as a young person from bagging groceries to doing produce, you know. So i have a great appreciation for what the