Stu Bykofsky offers his take
on the Zoom Philadelphia district attorney debate in a post on his website.
District Attorney Larry
Krasner likes boogeymen.
Although Frank Rizzo has been
dead 30 years, Krasner mentioned him four times during Monday afternoon’s
Zoom district attorney debate sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association. He
waved the name like an amulet to ward off evil.
Then, on the subject of
immigration (which was actually about illegal immigration)
Krasner reached into his magic bag for a Donald J. Trump red herring, saying he
and Mayor Kenney fashioned a document to withdraw cooperation with ICE. They
did that because of Trump’s, you know, horrible and inhumane policies.
Except for this: It was nimrod
Mayor Michael Nutter who was browbeaten by Open Border types into ending the
agreement with ICE, and this happened under President Barack Obama, the
deporter-in-chief, he was sometimes called.
This question asked by
moderator Riley Ross was would the candidates maintain Philadelphia’s Sanctuary
City status.
Krasner would, of course,
because there are few laws he likes to enforce. Sadly, his Democratic
challenger, Carlos Vega, agreed, after some double-talk about how illegals are
“victimized twice.” No, they are the perps, not the victim.
Republican candidate Chuck
Peruto said he wasn’t much interested in prosecuting garden variety illegals,
but if they committed a felony, they’d get time — before being deported.
Wow! Enforcement would a
relief, because Philly policy is to “protect” all illegals — even those who have
committed a felony.
… In opening comments, Krasner
said he should be reelected because, “promises made, promises kept.”
Odd that he hates Trump but
stole a campaign motto.
Peruto said, yeah, you kept
promises, but they made things worse. He also called Krasner a “politician” for
dredging up Rizzo, who has nothing to do with anything. Peruto certainly did
stand alone.
Vega said the city is “more
dangerous” than at any time in the last 30 years and victims need a protector
who “looks like them,” and told a politically incorrect truth when he said most
homicide victims in Philly were people of color.
Krasner said crime is up
everywhere, even in Republican cities, so he can’t blamed for the crime spike
here.
Vega said his failure to
prosecute and to reduce charges helped explain the rising crime rate, and
Peruto said Krasner’s policy of not prosecuting shoplifting crimes under $500
promoted “Christmas shopping,” of the illegal kind.
Defense attorney Peruto has
been a life-long Democrat who is running to defeat Krasner if he gets past
underdog Vega in the primary.
… Does Krasner under-charge on
many crimes?
“Absolutely,” said Peruto,
while Vega pussyfooted. Peruto talked about everything from gun violence to car
break-ins.
Vega recovered by citing 180
gun arrests, with 114 dismissed by the D.A. in a city that supposedly has a gun
crisis. That might have been his strongest point.
Krasner’s was his charge that
Vega refiled charges against a convict that Krasner’s conviction integrity unit
got sprung, and Vega used the testimony of two officers who allegedly coerced
confessions.
The biggest surprise from
Peruto was his belief that those convicted, having gone through trial and
appeals, were rarely not guilty.
He
sounds like a D.A. already.
You
can read the rest of the post via the below link:
https://stubykofsky.com/in-d-a-debate-peruto-stands-alone/
