Romney is scheduled to address the gop in san diego, but the question is whether mitt romney is still on the rise or is he already losing altitude . History will record that today is the low point of this new Romney Campaign so far. Sarah palin added her voice today i dont think governor romney will care about that. Hes doing well with a lot of his core supporters but we are starting to hear voices creeping and say he had his chance. Why would he be any better this time than last time . Friday night, he comes and speaks to the rnc. There are officials being recorded with officials trying to be polite to mitt romney, not trashing him not attacking him but not expressing any great enthusiasm, not using the Ronald Reagan line it took him three times. He will be a big player if he gets in, but i think hes lost a little altitude since the weekend. There is skepticism creeping in. A lot of people we talked to privately are holding their tongues saying i dont understand this. There are people
Question is whether mitt romney is still on the rise or is he already losing altitude . History will record that today is the low point of this new Romney Campaign so far. Sarah palin added her voice today, i dont think governor romney will care about that. Hes doing well with a lot of his core supporters, but we are starting to hear voices creeping and say he had his chance. Why would he be any better this time than last time . Friday night, he comes and speaks to the rnc. There are officials being recorded with officials trying to be polite to mitt romney, not trashing him, not attacking him, but not expressing any great enthusiasm, not using the Ronald Reagan line it took him three times. He will be a big player if he gets in, but i think hes lost a little altitude since the weekend. There is skepticism creeping in. A lot of people we talked to privately are holding their tongues saying i dont understand this. There are people saying maybe he wont do it, but everyone ive talked to i
Fellowship former president of the prison fellowship when he was there he liked to talk about the fact that today we lock people up because we are mad at them when we should be reserving prison and jail space for people who we are afraid of. There are obviously people who have committed crimes and who are dangerous enough that they need to be kept away from rest of society. They built the prisons and the prosecutors build them up. I have to say one thing in trying to get real Prison Reform through and we have done most of our work at the state level as im sure doug knows, we have had Great Success working with democrats, republicans conservatives and liberals than with governors who are concerned about two things. One, the way their systems are working or not working in the cost of the systems in many states across the prison system is greater than the cost of a Public Education system and they both work just about as well but maybe a reallocation of resources might be in order. I have
Your specific term. I just want to say this, that the word institutionalization, for these programs, is not one that weve started talking about as a community, say, in the last six months. Under the leadership of the agac, the attorney generals advisory committee, our first chairman was todd jones who had been a former u. S. Attorney in the late 1990s. He came back he said he is a recidivist came back as u. S. Attorney again starting in 2008. Todd preached from day one in institutionalization. Paul did as well, Loretta Lynch as well. Lanny wanted to respond though. I was just going to give an answer to the judges question, one example that my colleagues can talk about what theyre doing in their districts. But the attorney general was mindful of it, so one of the privileges when you are the head of the Criminal Division is you work with the u. S. Sentencing commission and we did do that. We also are able to work with the attorney general and with your colleagues in the u. S. Attorneys o
We have with us, moving from the left to the right geographically otherwise erhaps [laughter] lurk, the attorney maryland, the former states attorney in Montgomery County, former president of the National Association of attorney generals. Next to him is jeff. Assistant for Camara Harris of california. Jeff oversees criminal law as a special assistant in california. Next to jeff is cyrus vance, the District Attorney. Those of us in manhattan know him well. Next to him as anthony, the commissioner of the Baltimore Police department. Has joined us today. Finally, to my immediate left we have david keene who is a Founding Member. Former president of the National Association. Former chair of the American Conservative Union and a board member of the constitution project. Mornings next events will proceed is as follows. Each member of the panel will have a view minutes to discuss issues of key importance to them and then will move through some significant things. Attribute personal that is re