12-10-2021, 02:41 AM
"I've known Mitch Roth for a long time . . . " - Rob Tucker
So have I, and he doesn't have the constitution (backbone) to challenge the status quo of law enforcement or anything else. I base this on face to face conversations that I have had with him before, during, and after he became prosecutor. He had a chance in the aforementioned office to shake up the criminal justice system, but didn't. When I asked him about one particularly galling plea bargain for a violent crime, he used the usual excuse that the police didn't give him the evidence he needed and that the judges wouldn't give harsher sentences anyway. I immediately suggested that he make a strong public statement to that effect to shake things up, and he got this horrified look and tried to change the subject. So much for courage of conviction, no pun intended. My own opinion is that his ambition for higher political office precluded any challenge to the good old boy system. Roth is now part of that system and in the pockets of the public employees unions and power brokers. Same old you know what.
So have I, and he doesn't have the constitution (backbone) to challenge the status quo of law enforcement or anything else. I base this on face to face conversations that I have had with him before, during, and after he became prosecutor. He had a chance in the aforementioned office to shake up the criminal justice system, but didn't. When I asked him about one particularly galling plea bargain for a violent crime, he used the usual excuse that the police didn't give him the evidence he needed and that the judges wouldn't give harsher sentences anyway. I immediately suggested that he make a strong public statement to that effect to shake things up, and he got this horrified look and tried to change the subject. So much for courage of conviction, no pun intended. My own opinion is that his ambition for higher political office precluded any challenge to the good old boy system. Roth is now part of that system and in the pockets of the public employees unions and power brokers. Same old you know what.