On Tuesday, May 15, Rochester Police Chief Jim Franklin stood in a parking lot at the Rochester Golf and Country Club parking with nothing to do. Taxpayers paid his salary for him to be there wasting his time for a PR opportunity for a Twin Cities right-wing think tank. Emails between The Center for the American Experiment and the police chief are evidence of this.
We conservatives get libeled a lot. If you are Donald Trump or Sarah Palin, there is no remedy: it is open season on politicians and former politicians. But most of us are not in that category. My organization and one of our policy fellows were libeled recently, and we fought back. What followed should encourage all who are wrongly maligned by liberals. I told part of the story here: American
I paid to attend to the Center of the American Experiment’s forum on Crime last Tuesday, March 15. I am very involved in this community. I have a real interest in crime issues. I was president of the Eastside Pioneers Neighborhood Association now known as Eastside Neighborhood Association for almost 20 years. In that time, we dealt with a wide range of public safety issues dealing with armed robberies, theft, drugs, gangs, drive by shootings and more. Consequently, I have developed a genuine ongoing interest in public safety.