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Hopeful electoral pattern emerging among GOP leaders on criminal justice reform

By Gritsforbreakfast

First, congratulations to Rep. Jerry Madden for pulling out his primary challenge from a 23-year old neophyte who's main past experience was an internship at the office of the Washington D.C. drug czar. No election result on Tuesday pleased me more.Madden's young opponent ran an energetic and vitriolic campaign, accusing the chairman of being soft on crime for opposing new prison spending and spearheading, with Sen. John Whitmire, legislation to reduce the number of probation revocations filling up Texas prisons. Columnist Mitchell Shchnurman this morning in the Fort Worth Star Telegram summed up my feelings about Madden's position and the attacks he withstood in these closing lines ("A focus on savings resulted in prison reforms," March 5):"We're doing the right thing for people who've broken the law and the right thing for taxpayers," Madden says...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).