I’m going to go out on a limb and say that all those pardoned were white. Prove me wrong.
Well it sure wasn’t D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" who “come from Connecticut and New York”.
No out of State Pardons
LePage had a mentor?
How much did the kid pay?
Other than the drug dealers, the type of folks on whose backs LePage made political hay upon, these pardons seem pretty run of the mill.
Even the pardoning of the grandson of the mentor, assuming he doesn’t run out to a bar to celebrate and then drive home loaded, that doesn’t seem much to get worked up about.
Curious as to the “new state law” that kept the pardons secret, whether that was a lame duck action by the NH lege akin to what we saw in Wisconsin and Michigan, designed to protect LePage in some way.
“Another of LePage’s last acts was to pardon the grandson of late Bruce Myrick, who mentored and sheltered the future governor when he ran away from home to escape abuse.”
How ironic that a boy who ran away from home to escape abuse grew up to be a man who abused an entire state.
Newcomb said he decided to seek clemency when the youthful crime came back years later to haunt him. His record came to authorities’ attention while he was teaching a gun safety class. His criminal record barred him from owning guns, and authorities went to his home and seized his weapons.
WTF? If you’re barred from owning weapons, you can’t own weapons. If owning weapons is a prerequisite for teaching gun safety classes – which seems unlikely – then that means you don’t get to teach gun safety classes, either. It’s not like this was an accident. He knowingly and willfully violated the terms of this release.